Is the PS3 selling badly? Why do you think it is/isn't?

[Final-Fan]

I too see the PS3 as being comparable to the GCN and XBX in terms of success (not final sales).

For Nintendo, the GCN continued to lose market share but made them lots of money.

For Microsoft, the XBX successfully entered the market and tied for second place market share (barely won 2nd if you want to get technical), but lost them GHASTLY amounts of money.

For Sony, the PS3 has cost them their position as hardware market leader, as well as losing them money (so far). They can probably dig themselves out of the money pit and claw back to 2nd place market share, but they probably won't make that much money in total.

Incidentally, I see Sony in a much better position than Microsoft for the next generation. The complaint with the PS3 was that it tried to do too much and cost a fortune as a result. All the PS4 has to do to win is cost a reasonable amount of money.

Microsoft, however, has a much bigger problem. People just aren't going to trust their hardware like they did before. The 360's failure rate was totally unacceptable, and people won't forget that.