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Originally Posted by fleury
Understood. The thing is, unlike the late 90's, not many really go into high end PC gaming - at least not enough to call it mass appeal. Having said that and knowing the fact that MS and Sony don't make money off the actual consoles, and the full power of the PS not fully being taken advantage of yet, why the new refresh? There's really no first mover advantage IMO yet, because the new systems games aren't a giant step up from what I can see. So if Sony lets MS introduce the new 720, give themselves 2 years, and come out with something far more advanced, gamers would likely flock to their system, while MS has nowhere to go because of the capital invested in the then outdated 720. What I'm basically saying is, there's still room to grow with the PS3 from what I understand, so I don't understand why they needed a new system now.
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Replace 2 years with 1 and you've pretty much got the current situation. The single year head start for xbox arguably put sony in a hole that they're just getting out of now, despite the PS3 having the more impressive hardware (in some categories).