| Barkley said: The PS3 is still the 4th best selling home console of all time, only beaten by one non-sony machine, the Wii. They never really stopped being the king. They've never had a failed home console and by the end of the year, 4 out of 5 of the best selling home consoles will be PlayStations |
But if we include Handhelds (Because Handhelds are still consoles) in that... The Vita was a massive failure.
And isn't the Playstation TV also regarded as a console? How well did that do?
| Azzanation said: That depends what you mean by win. If win you mean on sales figures than sure, in terms of profiting i wouldnt say Sony is king when it comes to profiting. Nintendo knows how to make money and i think Nintendo has a much better history when it comes to making money in the console market. PS3 might be the 4th best selling console however its up there as one of the worst profiting. Thats not entirely a win. |
We can't ignore Microsoft's pretty consistent ability to monetize everything either.
| Azzanation said: Maybe so, however you need to look at it as a business standpoint. Whats more important, money coming in or hardware going out. Would you call MS a winner if next gen they gave out there Scarlett console for free, breaking every sale record in history while losing billions? Would you say they won? I certainly wouldn't. |
The general idea is that the more hardware you got going out... The more money you can bring in from software sales.
But once software sales isn't able to cover hardware costs... Then you have a real issue.
| Dante9 said: The PS brand is so strong, especially in Europe, that Sony would have to f up completely in order to do any serious damage. Some people don't see the bigger picture and think that after the PS3 Sony was on the brink of destruction or something. |
Sony is a massive company... Still dwarfed by the likes of Microsoft of course.
However... Even when Sony has made massive mistakes like the YLOD, the Great Playstation hack of 2011, removal of features like Backwards Compatibility and *Nix and so on, the obscene launch price of the Playstation 3... Sony is still able to bring in respectful numbers.
And props to them.
| RJTM1991 said: Playstation has always been a supermassive brand, but when it came to popularity last gen, the 360 had the PS3 beat. In my opinion, the scales only tipped when the 360's casual audience jumped ship to the PS4. |
Around 2007-2008 is when I felt the Xbox 360 was really hitting it's stride... Mostly because of a single game. Halo 3.
That game literally boosted console sales... And the whole industry was talking about it.
...That game also helped recover some of the damage the RROD did to the Xbox 360 brand image.
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