| heruamon said: Some people seem to take the success of the Xbox brand for granted, and what it has been able to achieve, because it's M$. The fact is that Xbox was a complete longshot, and YES....had it not been M$, or some other company that enjoys deep pockets, it would have failed, but the odds were still strongly against the brand succeeding. Now, heading into this generation, there was a WIDELY held belief that the ps3 would handily smash Nintendo and M$ to a pulp….and second place was expected to be left to between those two. Now, looking on the surface, Wii looks to have been the real winner, but 360 has held its own, and topping the sales of the previous console, with more steam in it’s boilers, the 360 looks to nearly double the LTD of the original Xbox….that is HUGE. Whatever the next generation brings, the Xbox family will be in the thick of things for top console, and that, in of itself is a huge level of success. |
M$ are doing well, no one can deny that. However people seem to think they destroyed Sony when Sony really dug themselves into a hole with their arrogance. They were cocky enough to think they could sell systems with no games, 600$ price tag, and expected 3rd party devs to beg to make games for them.
I think their were alterior motives for making the Ps3 have blu ray and the cell, to help Blu ray win the war and to put a use to the cell that they spent so much money on. I really think they were trying to do same thing they did with Ps2, market it as a DvD player and superior to DC etc. There were even rumours Ps2 could navigate missles.
Ps2 was more expensive then GC and DC when launched but still sold. Sony did themselves in and hopefully they will learn from it. Humble pie after dominating market for 2 gens. I think a Sony rep even said about the lack of good launch titles that the Ps3 would sell high no matter what games were out because people want a Ps3 just because or something.
Nintendo really did Sony in, they launched around same time and the hype for Wii ate up all the Ps3 sales, then Sony failed for all of 06 and half of 07 before they realized they had to work for sales this gen and started to pick up in 08.
