Why ps3 failed

[joeorc]

Aiemond said:

CGI-Quality said:

Aiemond said:

joeorc said:

CGI-Quality said:
Well, people see the PS3 failing at gaining significant marketshare, failing at keeping (3rd party) exclusives, failing at outshining the 360 in the realm of multiplatform games. To me, it has definitely had some forks in the road, but like the Gamecube, it just keeps on chuggin'.

PS3 will be fine, it still has a healthy line-up of games currently, and many on the way. We should be happy about that, and quit dwelling on things we have no control over.

i find it funny about the whole this console failed argument.

Everything fails at something. so saying that something failed is kind of a no brainer.

the problem is many people correlate that to being that the product as a whole has failed which is not true at all.

so what if the PS3 is in 3rd, 2nd 1st 4th all it means it's in what ever place its in.

the funny thing is there is when it comes to game console's 3 racer's in a race

the racer's

Wii

xbox360

ps3

add in the PC and you have a 4th racer

so what if a system does not come in 1st place that does not make the system as a whole a complete failure.

like i said EVERYTHING FAILS AT SOMETHING

so the xbox360, and the Wii and the PC are also failures.

It lost the exclusives, marketshare and mindshare it had last gen when it was supposed to be the default winner. It has lost millions of dollars, more than they even made during the ps1/ps2 generation combined. If you cannot consider this a failure, then I don't think anytrhing on this earth can be considered one.

You were doing fine up till that point. Have you got proof of PS1 profits being lost as well?

If not, be careful how you post.

Your right, I looked at the numbers again and they have not lost all of it, just a very very large chunk of it. They made about 4.8 billion in the ps1/ps2 era and have lost about 3.5 billionish in the ps3 era. So I was wrong. Here are the numbers

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=15845813&postcount=766

 

As for MS, they have lost TONS of money on 360, but I do not know what the point of failure is for the company based on why they made xbox in the first place and how it has performed.

even though both Microsoft and Sony have lost money on their systems, there is more money to be made in this market than the previous generation. due simply to online profit streams this generation.

Sony like microsoft and nintendo have online content sale's and rental's. that will grow as the network grows which both microsoft and sony and nintendo has millions of signed up user's. Now not everyone may not purchase anything from the online store's of each company. but if anything has shown what can be sold one only just has to look at Apple.

When gamer's are already paying for map pack expansions there are clear signs that this generation's market is nothing like last generation's its more expanded of a market. there are more product's to buy for consumer's. and there are thing's outside of game's that are getting a presence on these market places.

this generation is much more expanded market ,which also means stiffer competition this time arround than last generation due to the market's expansion of product's and services offered this generation over last generation.