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badgenome said:
darthdevidem01 said:
badgenome said:

IGN: And what would you say is your biggest failure?

Peter Dille: Well, it's not a failure in that it was fatal, but it's well-documented that we didn't have as smooth a launch as we would have liked to. I think we primed the pump with a lot of interest in the platform. People can point to the ads and whatnot. We talked about that. I think the shortcoming was getting a lot of people whipped up and having them wait in line and then only having a very, very limited amount of hardware supply globally, which meant that we had a kind of start and stop effect with our launch, which is hard to recover from. It was a speed bump that we had to overcome and we overcame it.

Yeah, the problem with the PS3 launch was scarcity of hardware. Oh, Sony...

but you gotta say badgenome

its impressive he came up with such spin.

Yeah. But you gotta say, darth...

He is a fucking clown.

 

If you worked for SONY what would you say instead?



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silicon said:
badgenome said:
darthdevidem01 said:
badgenome said:

IGN: And what would you say is your biggest failure?

Peter Dille: Well, it's not a failure in that it was fatal, but it's well-documented that we didn't have as smooth a launch as we would have liked to. I think we primed the pump with a lot of interest in the platform. People can point to the ads and whatnot. We talked about that. I think the shortcoming was getting a lot of people whipped up and having them wait in line and then only having a very, very limited amount of hardware supply globally, which meant that we had a kind of start and stop effect with our launch, which is hard to recover from. It was a speed bump that we had to overcome and we overcame it.

Yeah, the problem with the PS3 launch was scarcity of hardware. Oh, Sony...

but you gotta say badgenome

its impressive he came up with such spin.

Yeah. But you gotta say, darth...

He is a fucking clown.

 

If you worked for SONY what would you say instead?

3/4 years on, it's fine to talk about any hiccups that happened, back then obviously the best thing for sony was to make out it was all going well, now though they're doing well and in a position to admit they made mistakes and that they won't happen again, but insted they come out with this tripe.



 

silicon said:
badgenome said:

Yeah. But you gotta say, darth...

He is a fucking clown.

 

If you worked for SONY what would you say instead?

"We fucked up and had no games in the beginning, but look at us now, bitchez!"



badgenome said:
silicon said:
badgenome said:

Yeah. But you gotta say, darth...

He is a fucking clown.

 

If you worked for SONY what would you say instead?

"We fucked up and had no games in the beginning, but look at us now, bitchez!"

lol. Okay hired!



DirtyP2002 said:
jneul said:
yanamaster said:
jneul said:
DirtyP2002 said:
jneul said:
DirtyP2002 said:

I like to say this again and again, but even if the PS3 overtakes the Xbox 360 worldwide, they will still lose this gen.

I think the downfall of the PS3 is legendary. It will be lucky to get 50% of the sales of the predecessor and Sony will never make money with it. There is no other way than to accredit that Sony is THE loser this gen. This is no flamebait, this is just reality. You have to see it from macro-prespective.

Of course Nintendo is THE winner. From last place last gen, to close to 50% market share is awesome. And the DS was never as brilliant as it is today. The Wii might sell 500% - 600% more than the Gamecube.

MS did very well. They will break even with the 360 very soon and they will sell 150% more consoles than last gen. Xbox Live continues to grow. In a few months, there will be more Xbox Live users than the original Xbox sold consoles.

About the PS3 overtaking the 360, I think I heard this before...

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=25094

It has sold 31 million in 3 years do the maths ps3 will be a 100m+ seller.


yeah, because it will sell forever.

Do you really think the PS3 will sell 10 million per year till 2017? You know that there will be a Wii 2, Xbox 3 and a PS4 on the market years before?!

The allmighty PS2 was released holiday 2000. It is by far the most successful console ever.
The PS2 sold 12 million in the past two years. You expect the PS3 to outsell the PS2 by almost 100% in this point of its lifecycle?!

No way Jose

of course it will sell enough to reach that amount, the ps2 did sell alot more admitedly, but i am betting it will have sales more like ps1's(slighty less) then ps2's.

saying it won't is a little bit silly, ps always takes it's time, but eventually it proves everyone wrong, just like ps2 and ps1 did (admitedly faster).

Excuse me but HA HA HA.....Oh wait you're actually serious about this?

The ps3 will be a 4 year old console the coming November and will have sold not more than some 40 million consoles by then, if not less. Going by sales trend and taking into account such things as price reductions, big games etc. by the time the ps3 will be mass market price like Wii or below there will already be a new generation of consoles and the ps3 will have some 55-60 million consoles sold, well below what PS1 did.

And what idiocy is your claim that the PS takes its time? for sales? In the last 3 years the ps2 sold maybe 20 million units, most was sold during the first 4 years.

the ps3 will sell about 14m consoles this year it's my prediction, that takes it beyond 40, (around 44 ish i think lol), a new generation of consoles will not stop it from selling, just remember what happened when the gc and xbox released after the ps2, it did not slow down.

I don't think sony will bother with a new console until 2012, this gen has cost them too much already, and the ps3 is just starting to gain pace, more people want ps3 now, alot of people thought ps2 was doomed for it's first year, but it proved everyone wrong(that's what i mean by the ps brand takes it's time, sega was dominating at first lol), the difference here is ps3 was way more expensive, and has only just fallen to be an acceptable price, it has better years ahead of it than 2009.

the end of this year 2010 ps3 shall be #2 mark my words.

 


I will definately mark them.

but just for fun, this is where your mistakes are:

  1. "a new generation of consoles will not stop it from selling, just remember what happened when the gc and xbox released after the ps2, it did not slow down"

    The GC and Xbox were in the same gen. There was no next gen till November 2005 when the Xbox 360 launched.
  2. "alot of people thought ps2 was doomed for it's first year"

    really? could be, but I can't remember
  3. "that's what i mean by the ps brand takes it's time, sega was dominating at first lol"

    Sega never dominated anything. They were a great console manufacturer (love the DC), but they never won a generation. Genesis, Saturn, DC etc all lost versus their competitors. The Dreamcast never dominated anything. It had a headstart, but there was no time in its lifecycle where the DC was a major success.

 

Could you provide your sales predictions for the PS3 in the upcoming years?

2010: 14million
2011: ???
2012:
2013:
2014:
2015:

etc

1. yes i knew it was not a new generation of consoles, but they were superior in graphics and abilities

2 and 3. there was lots of ps2 hate in the first year, also when it was first released there was more dreamcast's around than ps2's the gloom and doom threads can still be found to this day, you are right tho i should have put it had an advantage not that it dominated, see i am not complety silly, at least i can admit my own mistakes.

predicting the rest of sales for ps3's life is silly, none of you should be writing it off yet i know 14m this year, 2011 i expect a decline, as ms will have some form of price cut, but sony will combat that somehow, either way my point is no one should under estimate the ps brand.



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Joel12345 said:
I think it will happen you just going to have to wait a bit since it'll take ps3 about a year to catch up.I also think that the ps3 is doing really well being that high since it was overpriced (600$ come on launch price)the ps3 slim is seeing great number IMO

I couldn't disagree more. 8 million difference in total sales, 40k difference in weekly sales means 200 weeks until the PS3 catches up the 360 if all stays as it is, but obviously the PS3 will not be selling numbers worth tracking in 200 weeks time, and if the patterns of this generation repeat the 360 is going to have a price cut in September and start outselling the PS3 again, and then it will be the PS3's turn to be domed.



scottie said:
Joel12345 said:
I think it will happen you just going to have to wait a bit since it'll take ps3 about a year to catch up.I also think that the ps3 is doing really well being that high since it was overpriced (600$ come on launch price)the ps3 slim is seeing great number IMO

I couldn't disagree more. 8 million difference in total sales, 40k difference in weekly sales means 200 weeks until the PS3 catches up the 360 if all stays as it is, but obviously the PS3 will not be selling numbers worth tracking in 200 weeks time, and if the patterns of this generation repeat the 360 is going to have a price cut in September and start outselling the PS3 again, and then it will be the PS3's turn to be domed.

the gap is not 8 million!!! people irritate me so much, the 39 million figure is the amount of x360's made, there are only 37 million sold, which means the gamp is nearly 6 million at the moment. vgchartz only just updated their figures, you should know that is is more accurate right now, and tmmorrow ps3 data will be more accurate hopefully.



it's the future of handheld

PS VITA = LIFE

The official Vita thread http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=130023&page=1

Altho I already said overtaken or not it will not matter at all, I think It will be pretty funny seeing the little fanboys hide back in their holes then comes back full energy when the shit storm is over when it does happen just like when the ps3 slim did some gr8 numbers last holidays.



jneul said:
scottie said:
Joel12345 said:
I think it will happen you just going to have to wait a bit since it'll take ps3 about a year to catch up.I also think that the ps3 is doing really well being that high since it was overpriced (600$ come on launch price)the ps3 slim is seeing great number IMO

I couldn't disagree more. 8 million difference in total sales, 40k difference in weekly sales means 200 weeks until the PS3 catches up the 360 if all stays as it is, but obviously the PS3 will not be selling numbers worth tracking in 200 weeks time, and if the patterns of this generation repeat the 360 is going to have a price cut in September and start outselling the PS3 again, and then it will be the PS3's turn to be domed.

the gap is not 8 million!!! people irritate me so much, the 39 million figure is the amount of x360's made, there are only 37 million sold, which means the gamp is nearly 6 million at the moment. vgchartz only just updated their figures, you should know that is is more accurate right now, and tmmorrow ps3 data will be more accurate hopefully.

Sorry to irritate you through my laziness, I am aware that the gap is not 8 million but I couldn't be bothered going to the homepage to check exactly what the gap was (Im not on my own computer and it's really slow) At a gap of 6 million, it will still take 150 weeks at current weekly sales. Being as I am predicting that the 360 will start to outsell the PS3 again in September, I hardly think those 50 weeks matter.



scottie said:
jneul said:
scottie said:
Joel12345 said:
I think it will happen you just going to have to wait a bit since it'll take ps3 about a year to catch up.I also think that the ps3 is doing really well being that high since it was overpriced (600$ come on launch price)the ps3 slim is seeing great number IMO

I couldn't disagree more. 8 million difference in total sales, 40k difference in weekly sales means 200 weeks until the PS3 catches up the 360 if all stays as it is, but obviously the PS3 will not be selling numbers worth tracking in 200 weeks time, and if the patterns of this generation repeat the 360 is going to have a price cut in September and start outselling the PS3 again, and then it will be the PS3's turn to be domed.

the gap is not 8 million!!! people irritate me so much, the 39 million figure is the amount of x360's made, there are only 37 million sold, which means the gamp is nearly 6 million at the moment. vgchartz only just updated their figures, you should know that is is more accurate right now, and tmmorrow ps3 data will be more accurate hopefully.

Sorry to irritate you through my laziness, I am aware that the gap is not 8 million but I couldn't be bothered going to the homepage to check exactly what the gap was (Im not on my own computer and it's really slow) At a gap of 6 million, it will still take 150 weeks at current weekly sales. Being as I am predicting that the 360 will start to outsell the PS3 again in September, I hardly think those 50 weeks matter.

sorry i am just upset from some silly comments made here thinking ps3 won't keep on selling well after this year. it already says in the thread that the silly sony exec was using sold ps3 amounts to shipped x360's, that is where all this silly 8 million gap theory is coming from, we all know ps3 sold 3m+ in december so it is impossible for it to ship less than at least 33m the prediction was for 35m shipped ps3's so those ps3 sales may yet get adjusted up, not down.

 



it's the future of handheld

PS VITA = LIFE

The official Vita thread http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=130023&page=1