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EA website asks opinions about Next-gen Hardware

well, looks looks like the ps3 wins the console war
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I agree....

The only one who will increase market share next gen will probably be MS and 32 percent is pretty good for them...


Nintendo's market share will suffer the most and PS3 will dominate worldwide, IMO(although they will also lose some market share to Microsoft)
 
Based on what you know, which Next Gen Console do you want us to whore out our generic, shitty franchises to?


Nintendo Revolution-10%


Sony PlayStation 3-57%


Microsoft Xbox 360-32%

Total votes: 23421
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Interesting. What's the possibility of EA entering the console market next generation?
 
It's lame they don't have an "all three" option.

I think it's clear PS3 will win once again in terms of consoles sold. Microsoft will be gaining ground for sure, though, specifically in the US market.
 
Amir0x said:
It's lame they don't have an "all three" option.

I think it's clear PS3 will win once again in terms of consoles sold. Microsoft will be gaining ground for sure, though, specifically in the US market.
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No, it's not clear.
 
Kleegamefan said:
I agree....

The only one who will increase market share next gen will probably be MS and 32 percent is pretty good for them...


Nintendo's market share will suffer the most and PS3 will dominate worldwide, IMO(although they will also lose some market share to Microsoft)
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I don't think PS3 is going to dominate in NA like PS2 did. Western developed/published games have become extremely popular in NA (17 of the top 20 games sold in march are western developed), and western developers/publishers seem to release just as many games , if not more, on the xbox platform versus the playstation platform. This push should help MS secure a very large marketshare in NA next gen. I don't think they'll overtake Sony, but I definitely see a scenerio where Xbox 360 sells something like 22 million consoles in NA and PS3 sells 26 million. Worldwide is another story.
 
It's a pretty skewed survey though, since EA software and Nintendo hardware are hardly a perfect match for each other these days. It would be interesting to see the same survey being carried out by different publishers.
 
Kleegamefan said:
Um, yes it is...
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Really, the only "uncertain" thing I see next-gen is whether or not Microsoft will take a slight lead in the US for consoles sold. In Japan and Europe, no matter what Microsoft does it's going to take a miracle to overtake Sony - particularly with the big gunned franchises still on Sony's side.

DopeyFish said:
Not when you live your life in a fishtank.
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:lol

Oh Dopey, you never cease to amaze!
 
All the polls I have seen sofar put PS3 ahead of Xbox 360...

Not gospel, but it is an early indication....


The only place I have heard X360 will dominate next gen (worldwide market share) is from MS....


As big as the gaming market is growing, a 1/3 chunk of it is nothing to sneeze at and I see MS accomplishing this.....this is not a bad thing....

Beating Sony at the worldwide market share game next gen is a pipe dream *IMO*...
 
Jonnyram said:
It's a pretty skewed survey though, since EA software and Nintendo hardware are hardly a perfect match for each other these days.
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And the fact that basically no one knows anything about Revolution at all.
 
I'm more interested in what franchises will be the big sellers.

I personally don't think either Devil May Cry or Metal Gear Solid will have much of an impact, while and Gran Turismo, Tekken, and Final Fantasy will sell on par with this generation. Grand Theft Auto will sell, much to my dismay, on every console it's on.

I'm surprised Nintendo even received 10% of the votes given the fact that no one has seen any of its games, or even CGI representations of its games.
 
hmm, i see nothing changing from this gen. MS will retain its current market share, as will sony. nintendo will go down and whatever it loses will most likely be split evenly between ms and sony.
 
Speevy said:
I'm more interested in what franchises will be the big sellers.

I personally don't think either Devil May Cry or Metal Gear Solid will have much of an impact, while and Gran Turismo, Tekken, and Final Fantasy will sell on par with this generation. Grand Theft Auto will sell, much to my dismay, on every console it's on.

I'm surprised Nintendo even received 10% of the votes given the fact that no one has seen any of its games, or even CGI representations of its games.
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I think the first Metal Gear games on the systems tend to sell very well, because they are often graphic spectacles for the new platforms. I think in that, it's a very powerful tool to pull in those straglers. I think most people are just surprised MGS3 didn't sell as good as it should compared to MGS2, but I don't think it's necessarily an indication of longterm drop-off of the franchise. If MGS4 does poorly, then I'd say the point is probably correct.

That said, Gran Turismo and Final Fantasy will continue to have a monumental impact on the industry, and that'll change as soon as the popularity of Pokemon dies, which is probably not going to be for quite a while yet.

Devil May Cry is still a good selling series, but I don't think it'll necessarily impact anything much.

Grand Theft Auto is all-powerful, take a few more games to fall off from popularity.
 
Doube D said:
hmm, i see nothing changing from this gen. MS will retain its current market share, as will sony. nintendo will go down and whatever it loses will most likely be split evenly between ms and sony.
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This does not compute...how can MS and Sony retain their current market share and take it from Nintendo at the same time? And wouldn't that constiture a change from this gen?
 
GhaleonEB said:
This does not compute...how can MS and Sony retain their current market share and take it from Nintendo at the same time? And wouldn't that constiture a change from this gen?
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Well I meant retain their market shares w/ respect to each other (ie the differential will be the same as this gen). They will both gain in absolute terms from nintendo's demise. :)
 
50% of EA's sales come from the PS2, this should be of no issue. I bet if this was on a site like UBIsoft, 360 might win.
 
I cant imagine ps3 generating as much hype as ps2 did. Sonys brand name alone wont win it for them, it really depends on the price and if their games actually look better.
 
Doube D said:
Well I meant retain their market shares w/ respect to each other (ie the differential will be the same as this gen). They will both gain in absolute terms from nintendo's demise. :)
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Gotcha. Man that post made my head spin. :lol
 
I cant imagine ps3 generating as much hype as ps2 did.
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I can EASILY imagine Sony hyping up PS3 even more than PS2...

MS has NO CHANCE in Japan and I believe Europe will be a hard nut for them to crack as well ( but they shoud see better success there than with Xbox, I would hope)

The US is everybodys biggest market but there are also a SEA of fans in the US that wont so much has smell anything other than PlayStation...

In the end, I *do* think MS will see a large gain in WW marketshare and Sony will see a small dip in WW market share but they (SCEI) will still get over 50% of it, IMO....
 
Mrbob said:
Western developed/published games have become extremely popular in NA (17 of the top 20 games sold in march are western developed), and western developers/publishers seem to release just as many games , if not more, on the xbox platform versus the playstation platform.
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I actually see this as a potential problem for MS next gen. A big part of the reason they had such a good pipeline to US devs was the straight forward PC esque development platform (x86 + Nvidia GPU compared to Sony's more quirky EE/GS combo) to go along with their edge in power. With Sony and Nvidia collaborating this round and with likely more capable hardware both of those advantages they had last gen could go by the wayside. Sony now has Nvidia legacy to draw in more American devs to go along with what was already going to be a substantially supported platform.

MS has to hope Sony didnt learn from their mistakes last round and will continue to struggle in supporting their third party developers. But most indications point to that not being the case at all. Chances are a fast early start will be the only headway they'll be able to make this gen.
 
I can EASILY imagine Sony hyping up PS3 even more than PS2...
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Ps2 was pumping out some amazing graphics that were far ahead of dreamcast and pc at launch. Unless ps3 has the same type of "wow" factor going for it that wont happen. I think people overestimate the playstation brand name as well. Almost every gamer in the US at least knows someone with an xbox, the brand name isnt as far behind as the sales figures would indicate. Most people recognize xbox games are generally better looking and that 99% of 3rd party titles are ported to both, it has been supported.
 
Kleegamefan said:
MS has NO CHANCE in Japan
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I don't believe this is true for a second. If Blue Dragon has a strip in Jump before the game comes out, the hype for 360 will be insane. They just need to ensure this happens before PS3 comes out.
 
TheDuce22 said:
Ps2 was pumping out some amazing graphics that were far ahead of dreamcast and pc at launch. Unless ps3 has the same type of "wow" factor going for it that wont happen. I think people overestimate the playstation brand name as well. Almost every gamer in the US at least knows someone with an xbox, the brand name isnt as far behind as the sales figures would indicate. Most people recognize xbox games are generally better looking and that 99% of 3rd party titles are ported to both, it has been supported.
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Who is overestimating the PlayStation brand? If anything, you're UNDERESTIMATING it. First of all, your example only takes into account the US. The Xbox has, what, 14-16 million systems in US homes? That's compared to over 28-30 million for PlayStation? There are 280million US homeowners. Who do you think has the superior name recognition? In the US, which system is synonimous with "gaming" now? It's no longer Nintendo, it's PlayStation. It'd be very, very difficult to overestimate the PlayStation brand name.
 
Yes im only talking about the US, I dont care or know enough to comment on the other regions.

In the US, which system is synonimous with "gaming" now? It's no longer Nintendo, it's PlayStation.
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Yeah, and it was Sega for a while too. The name brand means very little in this market. What really matters is pricing, timing, the ammount of 3rd party support and the quality of those games.
 
TheDuce22 said:
Yes im only talking about the US, I dont care or know enough to comment on the other regions.
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Well that'd be stupid not to comment on other regions, since they play a significant role in the types of games that come to the systems, and the type of success you see on any given platform.

TheDuce22 said:
Yeah, and it was Sega for a while too. The name brand means very little in this market. What really matters is pricing, timing, the ammount of 3rd party support and the quality of those games.
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Genesis was never at the level Nintendo was when it came to name recognition, because NES preceeded SNES and it was already a large success. Brand means a LOT, so does consumer loyalty. The problem is SEGA and Nintendo both made colossal fuck ups that not even loyalty could ignore. Sony is showing absolutely zero signs of a similar fuck up. Unless you can point one out to me.

Timing is probably least important, plenty of examples of early systems being trounced by later released systems. Pricing IS important, no doubt - but it still takes a big jump over the perceived value for it to be a hit. PS3 being 399 or 499 in the US would be such a hit, and would also qualify as the big mistake. As to third party support, Sony already has the big guns here and is showing an astounding ability to maintain that same level of support. I don't see how that has changed yet.
 
Amir0x said:
It's lame they don't have an "all three" option.

I think it's clear PS3 will win once again in terms of consoles sold. Microsoft will be gaining ground for sure, though, specifically in the US market.
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"Gee, adapting games for 3 platforms is pricey for our multibillion dollar empire, let's ask the interweb which one we should put the best resources towards instead."
 
Jonnyram said:
I don't believe this is true for a second. If Blue Dragon has a strip in Jump before the game comes out, the hype for 360 will be insane. They just need to ensure this happens before PS3 comes out.
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I think you really really over-estimate Jump readers. People don't buy DQ because it's Toriyama, they buy DQ because it's DQ gameplay with DQ sound effects and DQ menus + Toriyama art. Blue Dragon is the kind of game that might sell at DoA levels (200k+), but there will be no insane hype for the 360 from the Japanese.

The day you show me a group of Japanese kids insanely hyped about the 360 launch (and not recieving money hats) is the day pigs fly.
 
Bebpo said:
I think you really really over-estimate Jump readers. People don't buy DQ because it's Toriyama, they buy DQ because it's DQ gameplay with DQ sound effects and DQ menus + Toriyama art. Blue Dragon is the kind of game that might sell at DoA levels (200k+), but there will be no insane hype for the 360 from the Japanese.

The day you show me a group of Japanese kids insanely hyped about the 360 launch (and not recieving money hats) is the day pigs fly.
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I think it'll do better in Japan than last gen, that's for sure.
 
XMonkey said:
And the fact that basically no one knows anything about Revolution at all.
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That speaks volumes right there:
-no pricepoint
-no specs
-no games
-no visuals
-no controller
-no support
-no launch date
and it still manages 10%. Imagine if the pricepoint, controller, specs, visuals, games, support & launch range from "okay" to "wow"...that interest can ONLY get better. Not bad since most people thought Revolution would be Nintendo's death-kneal and exit into the toy industry and that Nintendo would be going 3RD party or whatever other gloom/doom theories were running 'cos of GCN.

Once people know more, they'll be more interested...all they know now is that Nintendo's got a more serious deck design (better for image), that they actually ARE making a system, that it plays the nostalgia card like no one can and that it has industry standerd stuff like SD, DVD, WiFi & usb...things that are very non-Nintendo-ish.
 
Amir0x said:
I think it'll do better in Japan than last gen, that's for sure.
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It couldn't possibly do worse.

DrGAKMAN said:
That speaks volumes right there:
-no pricepoint
-no specs
-no games
-no visuals
-no controller
-no support
-no launch date
and it still manages 10%
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Can we get this man an honorary spinning Revolution record icon?
 
It's a shame Sony was able to come in and crush Nintendo like they did. You would think that since both of them were both Japanese companies that they would have had at least a little more support back home.

It's weird, sometimes i think there's parts of the west that appreciate Nintendo more than their native country. But then again, Sony did so many things right, but i honestly never thought they would steamroll right over Nintendo the way they did.
 
Timing is probably least important, plenty of examples of early systems being trounced by later released systems.
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Good timing doesnt = the earlier the better.

Pricing IS important, no doubt - but it still takes a big jump over the perceived value for it to be a hit. PS3 being 399 or 499 in the US would be such a hit, and would also qualify as the big mistake.
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Thats what im getting at. If xbox is 100 bucks cheaper and the games arent noticably better looking on ps3 its a very big mistake. MS wont just sit back and let sony trash them when it comes to the publics opinion on the hardware specs, especially if sony has no evidence of it.
 
gamergirly said:
It's best not to say anything. Nobody wants to look like a fool 3 years from now
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Listen to her wisdom, there is no Nostradamus among you. The market is both violatile & unpredictable, sometimes all it takes is one game. (Nintendo learned the hard way, as another company inevitably will) By this board's logic the DS should already be in its pre-dug grave, fools.
 
All this talk about Microsoft owning the silicon means, at least to me, that they are just going to drop the price liberally
 
Bebpo said:
I think you really really over-estimate Jump readers. People don't buy DQ because it's Toriyama, they buy DQ because it's DQ gameplay with DQ sound effects and DQ menus + Toriyama art. Blue Dragon is the kind of game that might sell at DoA levels (200k+), but there will be no insane hype for the 360 from the Japanese.
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Naruto and Dragonball also sell shitloads, though. I agree it's not only because of the Toriyama art, but being in Jump makes a big difference.

The day you show me a group of Japanese kids insanely hyped about the 360 launch (and not recieving money hats) is the day pigs fly.
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It sounds like you're saying only kids read Jump...
 
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