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Squilliam on 11 March 2009
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Rpruett said:
Squilliam said:

Whatever the PS3 sells, its sales will almost certainly be bad.

Just because you've accepted that the PS3 will not be first, doesn't give anyone the right to actually say they are 'good'. Because every week the PS brand gets weaker and all the good work of the past is slowly getting unrolled by the PS3.

 

I don't see it that way at all.  Regardless of how this generation ends up. (Whether PS3 takes 2nd or 3rd place),  One thing is for sure.  Sony is not out of this game, not by a long shot. Nintendo has hung around for quite sometime. (N64/Gamecube) both of which were 'failures' under the same definition that the PS3 has been defined as one. 

If anything, the game just got a lot more interesting.  Microsoft has proven themselves capable after this generation (After the abortion that was the original Xbox).  Nintendo has pulled out of the darkness of the past two generations of mediocre selling consoles. 

The next generation will be even more interesting than this one currently.  With three viable competitors and three brands that now have proven track records of success.

Sony was out of the game, they had to lose billions to get to the position they are in now where their console in only just reaching the edge of viability. Had they not been willing to lose so much money there wouldn't be much of a Playstation 3 left. Nintendo on the other hand never lost money on their console division, so if they could be considered relative failures thats fine but they were never absolute failures like the PS3 is now.

 



Tease.