Your opinion: Will this be SONY's last gen?

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Kantor said:

Undying said:

axumblade said:

Undying said:
There is a chance. I mean we never thought Sega was gonna step down, but they did.

That's actually a good point. I don't think anybody thought Sega would drop out but they had many years of difficulty before they pulled out of the console market right? I'm really just asking because I'm not 100% sure. lol. I know the dreamcast and the saturn had some difficulties if I remember correctly. Of course I was raised on Nintendo so I didn't know much about sega except that I loved my gamegear more then my gameboy. lol

Well everything between the Genesis and the Dreamcast was a flop for Sega. At one point Sega had 3 or 4 active game systems on the market. The the PS2 came along and killed off the Dreamcast, which had an awesome first 1 and a half. That was when the economy was pretty strong BTW.

If Sony does atempt the PS4 it better start making them money ASAP.

The difference between Sony and Sega is that Sega had multiple failed generations. Not one of Sega's consoles has shipped more than 30 million units, while by the end of this year, two of Sony's will have crossed 100 million, three will have crossed 50 million, and every single console will have crossed 30 million.

Let's look at Sega's last three consoles:

DreamCast: 10.6 million

Saturn: 9.5 million

CD: 6 million

And Sony's last three consoles:

PS3: 22.44 million (and selling)

PSP: 47.73 million (and selling)

PS2: 136 million [shipped] (and selling)

 

While you're correct that you can't compare Sony to SEGA, sold units isn't exactly to say this. It doesn't matter that much if you have 2 systems that sold more than 100 units if you are losing money.

The difference between Sony and SEGA isn't that most Sony consoles have sold well, it's that SEGA was losing money since the Saturn days and Sony just started losing money this generation (they lost money in some PS1 and PS2 quarters but they recovered that money), but the thing is that Sony have lost tons of money this generation alone, so if another generation like this happens to Sony (which is not likely, Sony is smart enough to not make the same mistake twice) all of you who are laughing will have to start imagining the gaming wars without Sony.