On balance yes it was a success. But a qualified success given a lot downsides to the early part of the generation.

For Sony, it's clearly a loss : it didn't obliterate like the PS2 did and lost soooo much money.


Nevertheless, from gamer's point of view, it was a success ; it has the best library of games of the 7th generation.

It looks like you didn't understand the question. I was refeering to whether it was a success financially and commercially. If you look at how much market share they have lost, then it could be considered a failure.

Don't facepalm when you don't understand the question lol I doubt you even bothered to read the first post.

This.

How much did Sony benefit from BR winning.

With out knowing that all you have just opinions.

Sony is in the movies and music industry, so it's not just about its small share on BD royalties, but also about not depending on a standard owned also by a competitor in one of its biggest business divisions. Not to mention that MS owns the main implementation of interactive contents in HD-DVD, MS would have used it as a trojan horse to put a small Windows CE subsystem in almost every multimedia player, increasing its power a lot, and extending it to a new market. BD victory instead gave this power to Java, not a direct Sony victory, but hated by MS because it's an obstacle for its IT world domination plans.

definetely a success. Been plenty of consoles to not reach 80 million

Success is a very interesting topic do to the fact that what one person considers a success another might not. But I voted yes. Basically as a total gaming machine it is a success. It makes/made Sony some profit so it is a success.

They provided us with great games and hardware at their own expense. Because that wasnt enough they gave up PS+
who said corporations were greedy?