PS3 at 399$ on 3rd year is ahead of GC(99$) by 8 mln. =)

[Alby_da_Wolf]

jcp234 said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

jcp234 said:

BladeOfGod said:
The worst selling Sony console is selling better than worst selling Nintendo console :)

I am sure investors will be more concerned with profit, rather than the number of consoles sold.

I'm not really sure how this comparison is even relevant. The PS3 is selling more but probably losing even more money compared to the Gamecube, which probably loss close to nothing if anything.

 

Except for Nintendo, all other competitors always sold HW at a loss for at least two years, to make 2 and 1/2 or even 3 years initial HW losses acceptable Sony must stick with a long lifecycle plan (that doesn't mean not releasing PS4, in its later years PS3 can still exist as entry level console, just as PS2 did and is still doing).

 

LOL I am very much aware of this. But I am sure the intent of this topic was to somehow credit the PS3 with some achievement and discredit the Gamecube. Which I think is pretty pretentious considering the Gamecube cycle will more than likely be more profitable than the PS3 cycle, which is what investors care about. Investors do not care if selling hardware at a loss is the traditional business strategy for the industry, but they do care about profit. I just find it funny that the grounds of this topic is a console taking massive losses selling better than a console that actually made money. But I guess there really isn't much logic to Sony fanboy syndrome.

And I do not think it is appropriate to compare the PS2 with the PS3. The PS3 will never be what the PS2 is.

Reasonable. And although doing most things right from now on I think PS3 could end up doing more profits than GC as absolute value, I'm quite sure the profits/investments ratio will still be an awful lot better for GC. GC, despite ending 3rd, profited enough to keep Nintendo not only alive, but healthy too, and this also paying in advance Wii's development. But maybe OP went over-the-top to joke about similar previous threads...  

Edit: silly me about thinking OP was deliberately excessive, I had forgotten who started the thread!