HappySqurriel said:
dharh said:
magik10 said:
Losing market share is never OK. The PS3 is lucky it has the 360 to be compared with. However, the real benchmark for the PS3 is really the PS2 but the situation there is so bleak that people refuse to even look in that direction. Instead they turn towards any comparisons that put the PS3 is better light.
Sony took one of it's more profitable divisions and turned it into a mega loss leader. More imporantly they have lost market interest. The PS2 sales are dropping quickly yet the PS2 userbase has not migrated to the PS3 as many boldly had predicted often. The Wii is the "automatic buy" of this generation just as the PS1 and PS2 were before it. The PS3 will actually have to work for marketshare this generation. They won't be able to just sit back and laugh. The Wii has that spot. |
It's funny you say to compare PS3 to PS2, because for most of the PS3's existence it has been tracking almost exactly like the PS2. Go ahead and use the vgchartz tool to look at hardware from launch chart comparing PSX, PS2, and PS3. You'll see that PS3 currently is inbetween PSX and PS2. It's not exactly awesome, but you'll notice that while the wii when compared to PS2 breaks away easily, the X360 is still below PS3 in that trend. I look forward to 2009 when we will see truly whether X360 can put itself between PS2 and PS3.
Again you can say the Wii has the spot previously taken by the PS2, I say your right and wrong. The Wii is in a league all its own, it trounces the PS2. At least half of the Wii's userbase don't come from the PS2, they are brand new people who never would play a video game if it werent for motion control or that they can get software titles like Wii Fit (an exercise sim). Look at some of the games that are selling miles above all others. In the top 5 Wii software sales two are exercise sims, one is an extra controller (+meaningless game), and 2 mario games that parents would automatically buy for their kids. Of the two mario games, mario kart is the only one that can even compare to the others in the top 5 in terms of sales.
It wasn't just that Sony made bad decisions, they made stupid mistakes that not only took most if not all they had gained with the PSX and PS2 but put them almost to the level of XBOX in terms of ill feeling, but that Nintendo went and created and then swallowed whole up a brand new market.
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Look at how closely the PS3 is really tracking the sales of the PS2
Japan (6 Million behind, and selling at 25% the rate of the PS2):
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=PS2®1=Japan&cons2=PS3®2=Japan&cons3=PS2®3=Japan&weeks=156
North America (7 Million behind, and selling at 50% the rate of the PS2):
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=PS2®1=America&cons2=PS3®2=America&cons3=PS2®3=America&weeks=156
Total Other (5 Million behind, and selling at 60% the rate of the PS2):
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=PS2®1=Total+Other&cons2=PS3®2=Total+Other&cons3=PS2®3=Total+Other&weeks=156
The myth that the PS3 is selling anywhere near the rate of the PS2 has been disproven many times by now
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I'm less concerned with regional sales than I am with WW sales. If we look at those same regional sales comparing X360, PS3, and PS2, we still see that only in america does X360 trump from launch sales. The last year has been the real trouble for PS3 where it has really fallen behind PS2, but its again still ahead of the X360. Next year will decide the true trends.
