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Wired.com - Hi, I'm the Game Industry, and I'm Addicted to Vaporware. Thanks Ant.
Hyping up products that are years away is important to console makers like Nintendo, especially in the early life of a new product, because it needs consumers to see the console not as something they’re going to get their $350 worth out of right now, but as a long-term investment. This is as true for Sony and Microsoft as it is for Nintendo. They want you to buy a console on the promise of content later on down the road, so they can build their install base early, so that publishers will actually create that content.
And customers who buy in to that promise? As it turns out, they can have quite an emotional reaction when you suggest that perhaps they’re being snowed even a little.
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Jan 27, 2013, 02:48 |
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| I bought a PS3 because it has more and better exclusives than Xbox, and it's a high quality blu-ray player that has been way cheaper than comparable standalone players up until a couple years ago. Plus Sony doesn't charge you for online services. There's really no choice to be made at all for a primarily-PC gamer. I am eyeballing a Wii-U for future purchase because I'm a Ninty fan and would also like to catch up on several Wii releases, but that's another situation entirely. |
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