The Competition:

      Sony isn't afraid of the competition at all, their PS has sold over 75 million units worldwide, and the PS2 has already managed to break the 1 million mark within 4-5 days. Dreamcast's US launch was pretty big but it took Sega approximately 2 weeks to reach one million. As I have mentioned before, 3rd party support is Sony's key to success, if it wasn't for brands like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Twisted Metal, Gran Turismo, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, the PSX would be a lot weaker in terms of sales. What makes Playstation such a dominator is its variety, you have everything from Elmo to Need For Speed and to Quake. The PS has around 1000 titles in the US, and over 3000 titles in Japan, it is obvious that Sony has taken the world by storm.

      The PS2 caused frenzies in Japan, people camped out for 3-4 days just to get their hands on a PS2. Sega doesn't pose a big challenge to Sony at all, and Nintendo thinks that their new Project Dolphin system will revolutionize, but it will suffer the same fate that N64 did. There are way too many problems with the N64 system, mainly because it is cartridge based and although that gives no loading time, there is extremely little space and profits for companies to work with. Did you know that FF7 was planned to be released on the N64 but Square wasn't able to achieve anything with the project so they scraped it around 3rd or 4th week of production, or so I've heard. The third party support is by far the worst, the only support that Nintendo has is Rare, Midway, Acclaim and that is basically it. Other developers such as Capcom, Namco and Square are either with Sega and Sony.

      To me Nintendo is out of the ball game, in my opinion Sega should have survived and fought with PS not Nintendo. Sega's library of titles was far better than what Nintendo had to offer us, frankly I enjoyed playing Saturn way over N64. With the announcement of the X-Box and how powerful it is, Sony still doesn't seem to be shaking in their boots. But it has been said that X-Box's floating point processor is far inferior to PS2's and is on the level of DC's. Though the system has an advantage over PS2, it has 64 MB RAM, while Sony has 32 MB RAM. To me X-Box will just be an overhyped piece of machine, but you never know, Microsoft can hit gold with first strike just like Sony did five years ago. My prediction is that Sony will come out on top, Sega will follow, while X-Box remains in a close third to Sega and Nintendo will trail in a distant fourth.

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