wow xbox is only selling as good as the ps3!

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Strategyking92 said:

The said:

Oh no the future is here!!!! wait...the future is here again....no, wait, again!!! Damn! can't seem to catch the future, it's always slipping past my typing!!! OH! here it is again!!!

Dude, seriously...xbot always seem in a hurry to release the next 360 as if that validates the previous console success or anything? Look if Microsoft moves on to a new console it'll be because the current one is not profitable enough for them or they'll try to catch a new market trend. Sony released the PS3 and the PS2 was still killing the competition (and X360 with it until the release of Halo 3 in 2007). The PS3 was released 6 years after the very succesful PS2 and we all know things turned out the way they have because Sony used it as  a trojan horse for Blu-ray. Contrary to what people say or you may think, that sacrifice is paying off, and contrary to any anal-lyst predictions (Pachter) that this is the last "console" or "physical disc" generation, it is not. Don't be surprised if you're precious Xbox 720 uses Sony's Blu-ray in the future.

Oh, the future is here again...no wait...the future...I'd play some games and worry less about it.

 

 

Lol, the untimate in fanboy logic, or are you 11?

You didn't really argue with him, you just wanted a chance to put down a console you have never owned. I find it funny.

The ps3 bombed because it was being used as a trojan horse for blu-ray you say? And that it'll get better in the future??

So, you agree that sony fanboys always say "the future... It' in the future!!"?

 

No need to be flippant if you don't get his point. He made one.

You might laugh at "fanboys saying the future... it's in the future", but that's what investments are for an enterprise: you take losses in the short term to reach a goal that makes business sense in the long term.

That's what Sony did with the PS3 and BluRay, and that's what MS did with the whole Xbox business: they are still in the red for billions of dollars, but they have definite business goals for the future.

Fanboys can gloat in the glory of the sales of the week, but that's an artificial little world they've built themselves. The reality is that the only console currently making profit on hardware is the Wii. For PS3 and 360 every console sold is a calculated loss to gain marketshare, mindshare with developers and to push other collateral agenda (format wars, expansion in streaming media market etc).

And you know what? Both MS and Sony were successful in their long-term strategies. Microsoft has now a foot in the media hub market and Sony pushed the BluRay enough to win the format war, while regaining at the same time equal mindshare with a console that was out 14 months before.

So, is yelling "but today my console has sold more than yours... 8 million gap" that less juvenile than saying "the future"? Understand that the numbers that you care for might be useless for MS and Sony, and that the time frames they care about might be longer than you think.