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Is PS3 a failure?

Yes! 146 23.74%
 
No! 422 68.62%
 
Maybe baby 27 4.39%
 
Gimme numbers! Arrgh omnomnom! 19 3.09%
 
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LipeJJ on 22 January 2015

No way. It was at the beginning of the gen, but it ended up being a modest success cause it turned things around since the release of the Slim model (2009 I believe).



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Aeolus451 on 22 January 2015
theprof00 said:
Not at all!
360 was the failure.
As in, 360 hardware failed so much that people had to buy multiple consoles, which explains the high sales.


Is that what you meant?



ibrahim on 22 January 2015

It is a failure not because it is sold less than ps2. It made sony lost billions of dollars



fluky-nintendy on 22 January 2015
BMaker11 said:
fluky-nintendy said:

Not a failure but it's not a major success like the PS2 either, and if Sony stand still doing nothing for it including not reducing price at a huge cost, the sales today would look similar to the N64. So yeah it was nothing mindblowing but could have been a lot worse.

4th best selling home console of all time it nothing mind blowing? Sure, if you compare it to PS2, it's not "mind blowing", but the PS2 was a breakout success, the de facto console of the 6th gen (24M and 21M from XB and GC? Come on, now) and was on the market for 12 years. If we were to chart console sales, PS2 wouldn't be a part of the trend. It'd be the outlier that was discredited. That's not a precedent that should be set for gauging how "successful" a console is.

When you consider that, disbarring the PS2, only the Wii and PS1 are above it, at ~100M and the closest thing to it, other than the 360 with basically identical sales, is the NES, with 20M+ less units sold, I think that says something.

Well, sales wise it still is a great achievement. But that came at a huge cost and only from 2011 I think, they started to make money out of each unit sold to the consumer (that's what isn't mindblowing about PS3, its high cost values that gave Sony some headaches). With PS4 they are doing everything right, so that's the best way to redeem from the PS3 semi-disaster: returning to the throne :).



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sales2099 on 22 January 2015
fps_d0minat0r said:
sales2099 said:
Did it fail commercially? No
Did it fail financially? Yes (lifetime)
Did it fail its brand history? Yes

Pretty simple really.


Would disagree with failing brand history.

Many iconic PS franchises succeeded on PS3 and it also came up with tons of new GOTY winning AAA IP's, while maintaining a balance of 1st and 3rd party content. Its what PS does best and it proved it.

The only limiting factor was the price of the console.

I use the word limiting and not failure because at the end of the day, its still the 4th highest selling home console and theres only 1 non sony console that has beaten it.

If thats considered a failure, good luck to every other console in history (and the majority of consoles yet to be released)

......I meant compared to PS1 and PS2, and most likely PS4 lifetime sales.I know that you know this, it was pretty obvious I think, and you just spinned it. Your answer wasn't the point at all I made, which was as simple as you could get.

You are also just aggreeing with me. I allready mentioned that by itself on its own merits, it isnt a commerical failure



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heyjew on 22 January 2015

84 million is unimpressive. The market for video games and electronics in general has grown so much over the past 15 years. Our population has grown by a BILLION people. This is why market share is important and absolute numbers are virtually irrelevant. Going from 75% market share to 33% in less than 10 years is the definition of failure and so is losing billions of dollars. Xbox loses $2 billion every year. There's no way Sony didn't lose billions on the PS3.



sabastian on 22 January 2015

How can any of you say that the PS3 was such a failure when right off the heals of the PS3, the PS4 is selling at an unstoppable rate...................

Its quite clear that The SUCCESS of the PS3 has ultimately carried over to the PS4.

Point, blank Period.



BHR-3 on 22 January 2015

no

from a sales perspective maybe but that could of been resolved if sony went to 199 quicker which i believe it still hasnt hit yet

even thought the ps3 sales werent 150+ or couldnt surpass the wii and 360 and had the inferior multiplats 99% of the time it did well on the exclusive front with games like uncharted tlou heavy rain motostorm gow infamous and resistance and although it had inferior mutiplats at the end of the day it had almost equal 3rd party support as the 360 with free online to boot



                                                             

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DanneSandin on 23 January 2015
sabastian said:
How can any of you say that the PS3 was such a failure when right off the heals of the PS3, the PS4 is selling at an unstoppable rate...................

Its quite clear that The SUCCESS of the PS3 has ultimately carried over to the PS4.

Point, blank Period.

With that kind of reasoning the GameCube was a success since it lead to the Wii... And I don't really agree with that ^^



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nuckles87 on 23 January 2015

PS3 may have lost market share and failed to do a lot of what it set out to do, but calling it a failure would be a pretty gross exaggeration. We don't have many failed consoles in the game industry these days, but if you want failures, look at Ouya and Tapwave Zodiac. Consoles that failed to sell much or make any impact on the industry. THAT'S what a failure looks like.