NightAntilli said:
Sony is not making any money "lately", at least not with the PS3. We're not talking about the brand. We're talking about the PS3 on itself, which makes the PS2 and PS1 irrelevant about they made money or not, but you can use them to compare market share. It's not about if Sony is a failure or the Playstation brand is a failure. It's about the PS3, and that means, on its own. It actually does not matter how long it took for the Xbox brand to start making money, and it does not matter that Sony made money with its PS1 and PS2. You say you are sure the PS3 will start making a profit, but faster, but you are comparing the new Xbox brand which started from scratch, to a console that already has a name for years, which is simply not fair, and not logical, because you're comparing two generations to one. If you compare only this generation, the X360 is winning for now, both for the companies as for gamers. You say playstation network is growing very fast, but there's only a peak because of Killzone 2 as of now. If the PS3 games don't get better online for ALL its games, (at least on par as KZ2) it will never catch up to Xbox Live. And PS3 as Blu-Ray player only is actually bad for Sony because they can't win the money back by selling games to those persons because they only watch movies in the first place. So yet again: PS3 causes the next for Sony:
Basically Sony has a financial dilemma, because if they decrease the price, more people are gonna get the PS3, but that means they'll lose money per sold unit, but maybe more games will be bought and make your profit higher. On the other hand, if they keep the price high, the PS3 will maybe turn into a profit, but the game and console sales will stay relatively low. Would that make more profit or not? What do you do in this situation? Since this console is basically giving Sony a headache, and it's not doing as they expected it to do, it is a failure for Sony.
X360 causes the next for Microsoft: And Microsoft is happy with its console. They're getting money from every side. Even though the RROD costed them almost all the money they earned, they kept their service quality high to keep costumers happy. The X360 on itself is doing everything good for Microsoft, because Microsoft already has nothing to lose. They already gained so much with this console, it just can't fail for them.
The bottom line is, the PS3 is not pushing Sony in the direction Sony wanted to go, and the X360 is doing that exact thing MS wanted it to do. |
Psn already has 20 million users and its only 2 years old, PlayStation Home has 2 million active users.
And what's so bad about PS3 online games? Tell me one 360 game which can have up to 256 players in one server? No, wait, tell me one 360 game which can have up to 64 players in one server? No, wait, tell me the name of one 360 game which can have up to 32 players in one server? Oh and you obviusly never played warhawk online.
And i am sure losing 4 billion on 360 is ''exact thing MS wanted it to do''. Microsoft may have captured bigger markeshare with 360 than Sony with PS3, but Microsoft lost a lot more money on 360 than Sony on PS3.
Xbox started on scratch? Microsoft spend millions on 3rd party support, adds, DLCs, stealing PlayStation exclusives...Just watch the ''History of Xbox'' on youtube and you'll see.
PS3 games sell lower than expected? Did anyone expected LBP to sell over 2 million that fast? Killzone 2 sold over 1 million for only 2 weeks. Did anyone expected Resistance FOM to sell over 3 million? How about MGS4?
Oh, and i am sure Microsoft consumers are happy when they are getting their 3rd 360 fixed. i would be happy too :)
