please tell me this is irony... PLEASE!

It was indeed irony, maybe I should have ended my post with a ":P". :P

Its bad because Sony was the undisputed champion of the last two generations  and now it is a distant third among consoles. There is no way to spin this into good news for Sony.

To a certain extent, what the PSP and PS3 have destroyed the Playstation brand for consumers and videogame developers.

Back in the day there was a saying that "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" and you could apply a similar saying to the videogame industry that "No one ever got fired for supporting the Playstation" ... The reason for this is simple, for over a decade the Playstation consoles sold more hardware and software than all of their competition combined; and regardless of how mainstream or niche your game was, your company would see the best sales and the most profit by focusing on the Playstation. While 20 Million in sales may not be that bad, having developers question whether they should give exclusive support (or any support) for future Playstation systems is a very serious blow.

The damage of the Playstation brand to consumers can best be summed up by pointing out that most people who bought a PS2 (potentially as much as 66%) will not buy a PS3

Cause it is a PlayStation console. That alone means that it should be at about 35-40 million right about now...well ahead of 360 and at least competing with the Wii.

What hypocracy. He just tried to divert it to a competition favoring his side.

Carl2291 said: Onyxmeth said: Carl2291 said: seece said: Its not as simplistic as you put it. All profits made from PS2 and PSP are eroded from the PS3.   ALL profits? Surely your exagerating? Well from what I remember, their last quarterlies were in the negative, so yeah that would mean all the profits are eroded.     Thats harsh. Very harsh. Sony really need to pull the finger out

You seem ill informed, I don't have a link OMG DON'T SHOOT ME! but the PS3 has eaten all the profit the PS2 made!!!

I will repeat it,providing that the PS1 and PS2 launched 2 years prior of the main competition (N64 and Xbox and Cube ) it was IMPOSSIBLE to ragain the same market-share.To have that kind of marketshare we should stick to fixed conditions as the Playstation always launching 2 years prior and have the first rival abandoning production early on (as Sega with the Saturn and DC).In the real world ,things dont work like that ,and history sometimes repeat itself but never just the same .

Even though I had to reread your post a few times to fully understand it, I fully agree.

That is a very simplistic view of the state of affairs, Sony's company is in.