What metric of success do you use for all the current generation consoles?

[aderoche]

Slimebeast said:

aderoche said:

Success needs to be measured against the manufacturer's goals. Did they achieve what they set out to achieve?

 

 No. It's only one factor and not the biggest one.

Would you honestly think Xbox was more successful than the PS2, just because you were told that MS had a goal of selling say 15 million units?

 

If someone sets out to achieve a goal and succeeds then I would say they where successful. Of course succeeding at a trivial goal carries very little merrit. There isn't alot of middle ground in public perception, that which does not succeed has failed. Was the xbox a failure? could it have done better?