More Gold Analogies

I was thinking about what I said yesterday... about the shrinking gold mine. I like to re-read what I post actually in the format of the site. I find more errors that way... sometimes I fix them, sometimes I don't... but that’s neither here nor there.

I wonder if the success of the PS2 is actually what is harming the PS3. Granted, Sony has an arrogance about their console, but even still. Sony and resellers have made so much money selling games and controllers and memory units and the actual system (sometimes 2 or 3 times to a person) that it's not worth it for companies to carry and give priority to the PS3. The Xbox 360 has sold over 10 million worldwide. The PS2 has over 111 million sold worldwide. That’s over 10 times the amount of people that would buy PS2 games et al over Xbox360 stuff. And out of that 111 million how many of them are going to be early PS3 adopters? Obviously not too many.

So my thinking is this. Sony did too good of a job getting third party support and getting their system in the hands of everybody and their mother. They did such a good job that companies don’t even want to make room for their new products. They want to continue to bank on the old ones. And bank they will, until Sony stops sending shipments and cuts off support. One would think that would be sooner than later. But God of War 2 (a game that might have sold some PS3's) is coming to the PS2. Why? Because even the game developers don’t want to make a game for a system that nobody owns. They can sell millions of copies on the PS2, or thousands on the PS3... developers have their own gold, and they're not sharing