| kowenicki said: @gilgamesh So what is it then? |
This is my theory for why PS3 usually has low game sales compared to X360 for example.
First things first, the X360 is bought for one thing only, games. The PS3 is bought for many things, games, blu-ray, the cell etc. When the PS3 was first released a good bit of the sales were from people wanting to get the cheapest and best Blu-ray player (sinse at the time Blu-ray players cost up to $1500), this isn't really the case anymore sinse Blu-ray players can be much more cheaper then the PS3. Also many different companies bought a lot of PS3's because of the cell, the PS3 is basically the cheapest super computer your going to find.
Now that could be a good bit of people that bought the PS3 to not play games but to do other things. But that was then this is now. The PS3 is basically marketed as a gaming machine (finally) now, a couple years ago it was marketed to be a multimedia machine, and games didn't seemed to be not that important to the PS3 a couple years ago (mostly because Sony was trying to win the HD war with HD-DVD so they marketed the PS3 as a Blu-ray player more then a gaming machine, not the case anymore).
But none of that is the case now. The PS3's main function to Sony now is games.
