Biggerboat on 23 July 2007
| libellule said: """There is no way you can possibly argue that the PlayStation 2 won on brand loyalty. It won because it honestly had an intensely powerful game library. It had the support of third parties. It was affordable. Brand loyalty had nothing to do with how well the PS2 performed.""" 1)==> of course yes, dreamcast was cheaper, get better game (soulcalibur/Chenmue) before PS2 good game appear (1 year after console release maybe). PS2 is the best example of brand loyalty, people liked PSX, people believed in sony, people bought the PS2. """Hardware shipments until September 30th 2006: PSone 8.06m, N64 1.67m. A difference of about 6m, sounds familiar to the current situation between the Wii/360 and PS3? If you say the fight was already over in the 5th generation at this point, it is already over now. """ 2)==> a 6 M difference in 1996 may be equivalent to a 15 M difference in 2007 because the market never stop to expand. So, no, the fight is not over yet. |
1)The DreamCast was all but dead by the time PS started to dominate, Sega simply didn't have the resources to compete. The PS1&2 had the best selection of games and was up against pretty poor competition who were late to the party both gens. SOny definately has a well known brand but the actual PS brand has been steadily in decline since the PSP failed to dominate like it was supposed to.
2)The market isn't 2.5x bigger than the PS/N64 gen. Also the PS had a significant lead built up before the N64 was even released, Wii has built up it's 5.5 million advantage after launching at the same time as PS3(in most of the world anyway). If anything Wii's 5.5 million advantage is more impressive and telling than PS1's 6.
| Hus said: Grow up and stop trolling. |
