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Dno on 17 July 2008
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BengaBenga said:
HanzoTheRazor said:
@Bengabenga

It is an achivement. The PS3 has had nothing but bad failier stamped on it by the press and many people since it's release till not so long ago. It's software library has been weak and it's lacked the exclusives to really compete well. The negatives were many as it was kinder released as a beta and lacked many of the promissed hardware abilities till recently. The 360 came out a lot earlier, has always been cheaper and had more software.

So, yeh, it is a big feat. But who is comparing it to the PS2 here anyway? I believe the thread is about the current war, isn't it?

 

Ever since the PS3 was announced everyone expected it to win the console wars hands down. But you're right that compared to the horrible first 8 months the PS3 recovered ok.

Yeah, the thread is about the current war, but what I'm saying is that a 2nd place in the current war is still a major loss for Sony. And of course it's important to view the PS2 in this picture, since that's where expectations come from. Also for Sony itself. During the PS1 and PS2 days SCE was a very successful part of Sony, not anymore and even if it will regain profitability it won't ever be able to achieve the success of the PS1/PS2 days. This automatically leads to less money for the devlopment of new games and the new console, since the predictions have to be re-evaluated.

For the companies their place in the console war is of no value besides PR. It's the hard figures that matter, and in that way Microsoft is doing better than Sony at the moment.

@BengaBenga i think your the fan boy lol. The fact is this.. ps3 sold like shit for a full year. Xbox had its biggest games (halo, gears, etc) and mostly all of sonys biggest games (DMC, GTA4, and now ff13. etc) and STILL can not out sell the ps3...... this is SAD for m$. this is in no way good. Sony is the most expensive system out there with less games and features ( even tho i disagree but most people dont) and it STILL out sells 360  every week for the last what year almost? this BengaBenga is in no way good for M$ and i dont see how you can compare it to last gen. With all these games and what not they still cant sell more then the ps3. IF sony had all those games ps3 would be killing M$ now. If anything next gen will be better for sony as all the dev kits will be better, price will be better, and thier lock on exculsive content will be better. As we all have seen sony learns from their mistakes (made online better, rumble back in the controller etc) and they will be much more prepared for the competiton next time.

BengaBenga