In Sonys eyes what was best case scenario?

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Neoraf said:

Best case scenario for Sony?

Going the Sega way.
Better to keep SCE alive than to go bankrupt.

History repeats itself.

Your PS3 hate is annoying.

How was leaving the hardware business the best case scenario for Sony before the PS3 launched? Either you didn't read the OP, or you are trolling.

Sony are not going bankrupt anytime soon, Sega never won a gen, let alone TWO gens, one by 70 million sales, the other by 95 million sales.

I think their best case scenario at launch was demand to be so high that the PS3 sold well at launch, but not PS3 levels. They wanted to push their hardware. Meanwhile, they would cut the price and when it reached the mass market, THEN it would hit PS2 sales. They never considered Nintendo a threat, and thought Microsoft were only a minor threat. A 100 million unit lead over the PS2's competitors with the PS2 made SCE complacent.

Of course, Sony never saw the economic crisis coming, and without it, perhaps the PS3 could have lived up to their expectations...eventually. As it stands, the best case scenario (which I still consider quite likely) is for the PS3 to beat the 360 by about 10 million units, but be destroyed by the Wii in sales.