I agree with gundamalpha.
Yes. Piracy issue is a reality here in Malaysia.
And yes, Malaysia is indeed an insignificant market. Wii have won the console race, not because Malaysians are buying it for pirated games.

I think the numbers says it all. PS3 is so far the worst selling current-gen console, SONY PR can spin and twist the stories but fact is fact - PS3 sold the least. Many so-called analysts are trying to make sense on the reason, and some think Price is the reason. Given this economy climate, high price will be a turn off for consoles buyers. Who cares if your expensive console can fly u to moon, when u are falling back on mortgage payment?

I remember when i first see the PS3 launch video in US, "3DO" comes to my mind immediately. But PS3 will not end up like 3DO, PS3 is a well crafted graphic beast with the backing of industry behemoth SONY, they still have a lot of times and money to get things right. But if u r following SONY news, they do not make stellar profits recently, and strong YEN & weak USD has really hurt them. I doubt they can cut the price further, that can be a blow to their bottom line.

I agree PS3 library is getting better. But it still has the weakest library among the 3. While PS3 is improving, 360 & Wii are not standing still. SONY seems to harbor hope that LittleBigPlanet will save PS3. I think the game will sell tonnes, and will sustain PS3 viability, but it seems too late to win the console war. Well lets look back into history. SEGA used to hope that "Nights into Dream" can be the Saturn savior, we all know it didn't. Same goes to "Shenmue" for Dreamcast.

Also, i doubt MS really throw big money at developer for game defections, reasons-----

First, it was not discussed in any of the MS Q-End financial results conference call with the press (I might be wrong). When discussing the Game business, serious media (Bloomberg, Forbes etc) simply did not ask the question probably maybe because ---- It is not true OR amount is insignificant.

Second, 360 have larger install base. Releasing games for 360 makes perfect business sense for developer, why is MS so dumb to throw big money at them?

@Zeliard --- My apology, I slip out the DLC issue. Also I actually came across lots of "MS paid for exclusive" articles on Gaming websites, but i did not believe it entirely.
@Gumdamalpha --- your reply made sense dude, no fear, logical ppl won't label u fanboy.

1. I still insist in my disbelieve that MS "paid big monies for game defection". That means, Namco & Square are not likely to have brought games to 360, because MS paid them off. I view their moves as very logical business decision to reach a wider audience --- to sell more games. When Square Enix announced that FF13 will be published on 360, their shareholders re-act positively, and their share price went up in the second day. From there you will see, shareholders think moving games to 360 is a good business moves. I doubt ONLY Square Enix shareholders think this way, and i seriously doubt MS paid Square Enix in this case. Why would MS paid Square Enix to do something that have bigger benefit to SE than MS? Not logical.

Bloomberg: Square Enix Shares Gain on `Final Fantasy' Release
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...rnU&refer=japan

2. If SONY come out and start buying exclusives, i doubt they would go very far in helping PS3. Money spend on developing 1st party games, or buying a good developer, would be viable choices over giving ang-pow to developer. For a start.... SEGA, Tecmo might be good targets, but i doubt that would happened as well, given SONY mediocre business performance recently, the management really do not have much goodwill around to justify a risky and expensive acquisitions.

3. If SONY does buy exclusives, it would be interesting to see how they would answer their shareholders for spending money on something they are likely to have minimal management control, and is risky because the exclusives in question might not have helped PS3 platform. So Jack Tretton is right, he should not have started throwing "ang-pow" at developer to do exclusives --- Shareholders might fired him if it failed!

4. CAPCOM's statements on exclusives are very logical, and i would be happy if i am a shareholders. RE 5 on 360 & PS3, Monster Hunter 3 on Wii, all seems to balance platform strength & CAPCOM's resources well.

This post has been edited by neogeocdz: Oct 12 2008, 03:47 PM