Great Forbes article on how the PS3 won the HD format war

[Noobie]

colonelstubbs said:

Noobie said:
i am just wandering they did all this for the Blu Ray but they haven;t done anything for their PS3 when its getting a lethal beating... The Japanese sales are awful, and they killed the NA sales themselves..

When are they going to have a meeting of all the departments for finding the solution to give a life to PS3 sales.? Maybe other departments can start giving some incentives for PS3... just like PS3 gave a bonus blu-ray film.

What? After 37 straight weeks of PS3 > 360 and now 3 weeks of 360 > PS3 suddenly the PS3 is taking a 'lethal beating'???

I say again- what?

 

You have a point but u need to realise that when PS3 started the generation they were like 6 million behind and stil they r 6 million behind.. So if they don't win and win by a reasonable margin then this deficit is going to remain and Developers will keep preferring the XBOX over PS3 as their lead platform and PS3 will keep getting the crappy ports and people will keep having less reasons to buy PS3 and the deficit will remain as it is till the end of the generation.. So you see its a vicious cycle for it.. sort of a deadlock for them.

And if i believe correctly Blu-Ray was in a similarly situation it was winning week after week but just winning and not by a big margin so it wasn;t able to generate the demand and momentun for them.. and the moment they closed the deal with warner the demands has increased considerably... If i have heard correctly Blu-ray movies has sold more in the first quarter of 2008 than it sold in entire previous yr along with the HD DVD... although if u remember correctly in 2007 there were many Buy 1 Get 1 and upto 10 movie per blu-ray player deals. So They need to win and win strongly... so far they have not managed to create a distance between themselves and XBOX and XBOX already enjoys the lead and now they have lowered the prices...