Calling it a failure because of the losses it made the first few years doesn't make much sense to me. Sony employed a loss leading strategy from the very beginning. They were selling the PS3 at a $200 loss at launch so they knew it would be years before the console managed to turn a profit. At the end of the day the PS3 sold over 80m consoles. The 6th most successful console in history, 4th if you remove handhelds. Only the Wii and Sony's other two home consoles had managed to surpass it. It also established a solid foundation and active userbase to quickly jump into the next generation leading them to create the fastest selling console in history.
Was the PS3 everything Sony hoped for? Of course not. But it was in no way a failure.
Sigs are dumb. And so are you!
