The PS3 won't make it past 2012 in America at retail.

[HappySqurriel]

leo-j said:

HappySqurriel said:

Feylic said:
Too bad the ps2 is still selling in most stores, as opposed to the game cube and xbox. If wii and MS come out with new systems, the ps3 will still have it's own shelf space, plus the ps2's to work with. No problem here, keep fishing.

 

You do realize that the PS2 is still selling in most stores because it was the market leading console of the previous generation (a position the Wii holds in this generation), and the primary reason why the Gamecube isn't still on the shelf was that it was the third place console (a position the PS3 holds) and its sales dropped off when the "next generation" began because the support for "next generation" consoles came (primarily) at the expense of the trailing consoles.

 

I thought it was because nintendo discontinued it =s

 

It was only discontinued because their sales had fallen to a level where further production was unnecessary (because it would take years to work through the inventory) ... The unknown with all these discussions is how people will react to current generation consoles when the first of the next generation consoles is released. If it is anything like previous generations the PS3 will be in trouble though.

Edit: To put it another way ... Consoles don't stop selling because they were discontinued, they are discontinued because they stopped selling. It doesn't matter what a console manufacturer wants, only consumer demand will keep a console alive for 10+ years; and the technical specifications and features have very little to do with what consumers want in a console.