Why the PS3 will not last long, let alone 10 years.

[WereKitten]

Squilliam said:

WereKitten said:
@Nightsurge
You answered the wrong post, read my previous one. The NextBox won't make up for the loss of selling PS3 software for years after its inception, and it will take its market mostly out of the 360's. With the PS2 end of line, there will be no rational reason to entirely cut one out of three of the big console lines.

Whilst I don't doubt that an Xbox Evolution would take a lot of its sales from Xbox 360 owners. I believe that it would also take sales, especially in America from the PS3 and Wii if it follows the same lines. It would also take sales from non console owners and PS2 owners as well. According to the recent Neilson survey there are still more people who play the original Xbox than they do the PS3 or there was at the time anyway.

The survey is hardly relevant for a retailer, though: the week of May 9th on the american market the 360 sold 557K pieces of software, the PS3 sold 320K, and the Xbox sold 557.