> It is too early but any way we have not seen the exitement of the ps2
> launch.
The major advantage with PS2 was that it could also run PS1 games. People
didn't need to wait for new games to arrive, they could just buy the unit,
continue to play the old games while waiting for new PS2 games.
There was also some life left with the old PS1 so it was more of an upgrade
than a new system.
GBA SP did the very same thing, it ran all the cames people had bought for
the GBA and fixed the major flaws in the GBA.
All the rest have had a slow start. Xbox did well only for the people who
really wanted to play Halo, and MS did aggressive pricing much earlier than
ever before in the game system market. In fact, even I bought a "cheap"
Xbox during the christmas campaigns and I still don't have any games for it
I'd want to play (and it's a poor DVD player).
The gaming system is such a small investment to the consumer compared to the
money spent on games that there's a very clear correlation between the games
in the homes and sales figures for the system itself.
Petri
Received on Fri Oct 24 11:45:02 2003