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abcdario said:

u underestimate teh power of teh cell. But seriously, I understand if you don't believe that it won't be able to reach 40 million, but you expect the PS3 to sell less than 16 million by the time the next generation starts? I don't compute.

 

We are in the middle of the generation the X360 started in Nov/05, it has been 3 years since then and they are close to 27 million, only 2-3 more years and the next generation will be upon us.

Most of the systems are sold in the beggining and while the Wii and X360 were able to catch some size in the market, the PS3 couldnt do the same, now fewer games will come to their system and the X360 will get the hardcore-exclusive games while the PS3 barely will survive with the X360´s ports.

What is next for the PS3 is a lowering in the sales no matter how cheat they were, it happened the N64 vs. PSone, the DC vs. PS2, GCN vs. X-Box and the GCN vs. PS2, i lived in the GCN era and we all believed and wanted that a price cut will do the favor against the other two system, no matter what game came out, no matter which price the system got, it never did anything in favor of the GCN dying in less than 4 years.

I was a little bit unsure about this path for the PS3, but know that Metal Gear Solid 4 didnt make it, i m pretty sure that no game will do it, too bad for the PS3 fan boys but at this point, they barely will reach 35 million.

 

 You sound real sure of yourself. I bet its gonna hurt when you look back at this.



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I don't think it will reach 6M by the end of 2007.



Neoraf said:
PS3? 40 million?
Unlikely.

Sony will probably leave the gaming market in 2009.
Certainly in 2010 (if not 2009).

 

The trolling is getting quite tiresome. 

Funnily enough you were warned for trolling mere hours ago.



40 million? of course. Its 2 years old and has done half that with a massive price tag.



Seraphic_Sixaxis said:
Yes in 2009.

LOAD OF FAIL. It would have to out sell it's lifetime sales in one year to reach 40 million.

In my opinion, it's very unlikely. It's sales are slowing... Sony's lost a fortune on it. I see it being discontinued before 2011. Don't quote me though



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"The PS3 is fast becoming a middle aged console with a reputation carved in stone, and the past two years have not been kind to the console. It has been labeled everything from overpriced to under supported. This is like cholesterol in this industry. Get enough of it into the system, and it kills you, and even before you get there it does start to choke off sales which only hastens the demise. "

It is not overpriced when cosidered 10 years ago the Dreamcast was retailed at 400 is did less and people made a lot less money. .
The library isn't the best but the other twos aren't either. The ps2 dominated its era in gaming but neither of these three are. Also if the ps3 had some RROD in its sell your looing at 24 million as of right now. Its just food for thought.



Gamertoadman said:
"The PS3 is fast becoming a middle aged console with a reputation carved in stone, and the past two years have not been kind to the console. It has been labeled everything from overpriced to under supported. This is like cholesterol in this industry. Get enough of it into the system, and it kills you, and even before you get there it does start to choke off sales which only hastens the demise. "

It is not overpriced when cosidered 10 years ago the Dreamcast was retailed at 400 is did less and people made a lot less money. .
The library isn't the best but the other twos aren't either. The ps2 dominated its era in gaming but neither of these three are. Also if the ps3 had some RROD in its sell your looing at 24 million as of right now. Its just food for thought.

Neither of these three are dominating the generation? Sales wise, yes, one is. Perhaps you noticed in first for almost a year and a half now. It's called the Wii.



"Neither of these three are dominating the generation? Sales wise, yes, one is. Perhaps you noticed in first for almost a year and a half now. It's called the Wii."

Sorry. I meant the games themselves. Theres just not enough Gems on each consle yet. The Wii is tearing it up due to the massive age span its attracting.



@Gamertoadman

Since when does two years translate into today, and only today. Ignoring the past is no better then penning revisionist history. Consumers do not start each and every day as a blank sheet. They form perceptions of something based upon their first experiences. In this case their first experiences with this console which would be its first year mind you was a console that sold poorly, was obscenely expensive, and had no games for months on end. Whether you understand it or not the saying is true once bitten twice shy. Sony left a nasty taste in the mouths of gamers, and consumers in general.

Those fellow human beings have most certainly not forgotten. So they are not inclined to look positively upon the console. That is a massive problem for Sony, because as they exhaust people that were less harsh in their judgment these consumers that had a bad impression of their console are still walking around with that bad impression justified or not. That is not going to help Sony. They need to find a way to change minds, or win back those they lost, and they lost a lot. That price tag alone lost them a lot of loyal customers who felt exploited.

Bottom line it is hard to change someones negative opinion, but Sony needs to do exactly that, because the blind loyalists and the technophiles will eventually run dry, and they are going to need that larger range that was put off early on. They are not waiting for the price to drop. They just don't give a shit they haven't given a shit since Sony launched a six hundred dollar console with not games which nobody bought.



Maybe.