I wonder how Samsung feels right now. As far as I know, there is a hard competition between Sony and Samsung. But talking about cellphones and TVs Samsung seems to win. But I got no hard data. They are probably having the same problems like Sony.
The SCE will be affected by this, but it remains to be seen how bad this is. In the last 3 years, there was no groundbreaking successful 1st party-PS3 game. Uncharted, Resistance, LBP, GT5p (all bundled) etc sold well and did the best they could do, but the real big guns are still not released. Imagine a GT5 (Sonys biggest IP) would be available right now. Things would look different. Where is God of War? is it coming this year or 2010? Killzone2 had almost 4 years of development. You can't expect to be profitable without offering a great value to your customer. A customer won't pay for potential. I don't want to flame, but there was no point in buying a PS3 before mid 08. The long awaited games are coming in 09 and 2010. Don't know, but this could be too late.
Wii received the Mario Galaxy 14 months ago, Mario Kart, Super Smash Brothers etc are all avaible right now.
Xbox360 had Gears of War in its first year, Halo3 + Mass Effect in the second and Gears of War3 + Fable2 in the third.
Imagine not having GamePass on your console...
