Lord N said:
Dodece said:
@Gamertoadman
Since when does two years translate into today, and only today. Ignoring the past is no better then penning revisionist history. Consumers do not start each and every day as a blank sheet. They form perceptions of something based upon their first experiences. In this case their first experiences with this console which would be its first year mind you was a console that sold poorly, was obscenely expensive, and had no games for months on end. Whether you understand it or not the saying is true once bitten twice shy. Sony left a nasty taste in the mouths of gamers, and consumers in general.
Those fellow human beings have most certainly not forgotten. So they are not inclined to look positively upon the console. That is a massive problem for Sony, because as they exhaust people that were less harsh in their judgment these consumers that had a bad impression of their console are still walking around with that bad impression justified or not. That is not going to help Sony. They need to find a way to change minds, or win back those they lost, and they lost a lot. That price tag alone lost them a lot of loyal customers who felt exploited.
Bottom line it is hard to change someones negative opinion, but Sony needs to do exactly that, because the blind loyalists and the technophiles will eventually run dry, and they are going to need that larger range that was put off early on. They are not waiting for the price to drop. They just don't give a shit they haven't given a shit since Sony launched a six hundred dollar console with not games which nobody bought.
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As usual, Dodece rambles on for several posts and several paragraphs and ends up saying a whole lot of nothing.
Seriously, if the PS3 is on its death bed, then 360 must not be far from it considering that it's only outsold the PS3 by about 2.5 million units since the PS3 launched.
Your entire rant about the PS3 not making it to 40 million isn't even ridiculous, it's just plain stupid. In spite of the bad holiday season, the PS3 will still have sold nearly ten million units this year. It will be around for at least another three years, so even if sales dropped off by 30% and it only sold an average of 7 million per year and died off after the 2011 holiday season, it would easily reach 40 million.
Why is this even in question? It would take a complete and utter collapse for the PS3 not to reach 40 million. You may as well ask if the Wii will ever reach 80 million or if the DS will ever reach 120 million.
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Je je je, not a math guy here, if the PS3 sells 10 million and we see a 30% fall in sales, it wont sell 7 million year after year, it would like " 7 Million for 2009, 4.9 million for 2010 and may be the same 4.9 million for 2011", i dont think it will sell less than 5 million a year cause not even the GCN fell that bad (or ... was close :P)
Ah, about "The next generation", i think it will start by the end of 2010, the X360 would have reached theis 5 years cicle and i bet they want to get rid of the RROD, besides that, the more time they give to the Wii competing with those 20th century controls, the less chances they will have to over take that pattern.
