rocketpig on 24 August 2007
| MikeB said: @ Sqrl The problem with the whole "just wait" thing is that is exactly what people are doing. Why pay $600 for something now when it won't be really put to use for a year or more? And I don't see a problem with that. If the PS3 would have an installed base of well over 100 million right now, it would put Sony in serious financial problems. Currently the are profitable, adding value to the PS3 step by step, with the install base gradually increasing. |
One small problem with that: in this industry, stumbling out of the gate can be disastrous because third party support is vital to a console's success. If you stumble out of launch and developers start to question the console's future viability in the market, they WILL pull support and divert it to larger userbases.
Not surprisingly, this exact situation is happening to the PS3 right now. It has lost multiple major exclusives over the past year and a half. You can't spin that in a positive way.Â
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