Who here thinks ps3 is Sonys' last videogame console?

[ZenfoldorVGI]

Feylic said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

Also, imho, the Xbox 1 was a pretty significant success. It was a completely new brand on the market and managed to beat the Gamecube from Nintendo, a long time market vet, and paved the way for the 360.

It also gave us games like Halo and KoToR which are now part of the gaming culture. Those games might have been made anyway, but without MS, maybe they wouldn't.

Either way, for a rookie console, frankly the Xbox was a significant success. It introduced the brand name and gained significant recognition for its successor worldwide. It also taught Microsoft enough about the industry to be where they are at today. In the big 3.

 

When I say it was a failure, i mean so in the profit making sense, which is what companies are looking to make.

and I'm going to have to go with Sephiroth on this one, he's probably right.

Oh, I see. So, the PS3 is one of the largest failures in gaming history then, by those standard, and every Nintendo console has been a resounding success and indeed the only consistant success in the gaming industry.

The original Xbox was meant to introduce the brand. It was always going to lose money. It probably lost a little more than it should have due to a few poor business decisions, but nothing approaching the poor business decisions Sony has made this gen.

It's fine to call the original Xbox a failure, but by those strict standards, if the PS3 started selling like crack tomorrow, it could never dig itself out of the hole its in, because you would be comparing it to its predecessor, or strictly from a profit standpoint.

As for Sephiroth, lol, I didn't read his post, I just read someone claim that the original Xbox was a "failure" and it really wasn't.