Is it good for the PS3 to stay in 3rd Place?

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Neoraf said:

Sega > Sony for adults. Sega in the 80s and 90s was awesome.

• Arcades dominated by Sega.
• Fun and competitive games, easy to grab.
• Always technically pushing hardware and software

Sonic, Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter, Space Harrier, After Burner, Virtual On, Echo the Dolphin, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Virtua Cop, Shenmue, Outrun, omg so many more...

The new Sega (as we know it today) is nothing like the old SEGA.

Killing Sony doesn't mean bankruptcy. It may mean "becoming a mulitplatform game publisher" like Sega.

 

The part you miss is that sega was never top dog in the industry. Sony on the other hand tasted pure success twice in a row. Thus it would be much harder to convince them out than it was to get them in. Remember that this is a corporation we're talking about. Even if bankrupcy was an issue, sony would also have a much greater chance than sega of getting a bailout from the JP government.

As for sega's "great days", many would argue in favor of nintendo for those generations and I'd say that part of their demise was overdoing the hardware and software technically (shenmue = 70 mil...WTF?). Funny enough, the latter can be said for sony as well this gen.