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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 3643501" data-attributes="member: 4779">The market would disagree with you.  It's certainly still a player.  Graphics don't enter into it.  If the PS2 wasn't being supported anymore that would change things for all three of the new consoles.Right now, they have a limited genre selection.  And 2 more RPGs (one of them killer) won't change that.  Just like with the Xbox, the new machine is struggling with that genre despite some excellent individual games.  And the fighting game genre includes DOA4 and Def Jam right now.  I'd say that is lacking.  The 360 is primarily a system for FPS & racing games.  That's where the limited genre selection comment is coming from.  MS still has a very long way to go to emulate what Sony and Nintendo before them did in the past by having a machine that covers every genre with a wide selection of games.That may be just fine for now, but I'm not ready to discount the advantage of all that extra space and the simple ability to have the extra tech there to help out down the line.  Sony has a great history of having games on their consoles look better as time goes on.  Additionally, the Core 360 has no built-in HD which will effect some devs as opposed to anyone making games for the PS3 knowing it's there.And the 360's GPU & CPU may be about the same but at least the PS3's isn't frying systems.I won't say they launched too soon because of HDMI, I'll say it because they didn't put together a solid system.  Either QA dropped the call or they just rushed the thing out there knowing there might be hardware failures.And just like with the statements below about the HD-DVD add-on, this is something that should have been included.  The rush out the door for the 360 was just that.  A rush.I know why they did it and it was a complete 180 turn from what they were saying all along.  I like that they were trying to adapt to a market that they underestimated (as companies do very often, this is by no means a dig @ MS).  The problem is that it's an add-on.  Those don't usually do so well.  And HD-DVD is slowly slipping behind BR in sales.  Currently at 2:1 but some big HD-DVD releases (Star Trek, Heroes) could swing that.Right, so there is the exception and it's a good one.  I don't believe the "first to 10 million" is going to be the gold standard this time around.  The market alone has millions more gamers than it previously did not to mention there are more factors at play than there have ever been with the console and handheld markets.I see the PS3 as one of the only consoles to cover all genres with a better than respectable games line-up.  The 360 and MS still have a long way to go in Japan and in all genres with the exception of FPS and racing.  They are certainly getting better are setting up well to take the crown from Sony in the next generation (GTA4 & RE5 are big steps).The PS3 is built to last longer than the years you mentioned above.  If MS is planning on pushing the envelop even more by releasing a new console 3 years from now, I'll just have to wait and see how things have played out by that time.  4 year console life cycles don't sit too well with me, though.  It reeks of what MS has already done:  a partially baked system that is lacking features and wasn't tested enough before release to make sure it actually lasts 5 years, not 5 weeks.</blockquote>

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