JGarret on 30 July 2009
| Infamy79 said: It doesn't matter, there will be no comeback Sony were in a clear #1 position with a massive majority marketshare plus regular profits in their gaming division. They've lost all the PS2 profits and well on their way to eating up the PS1 profits. If they do have another price cut this year they won't be making profit for a while longer. The most realistic best case for Sony is they overtake the 360 in total global sales at some stage towards the end of the generation and start turning a profit in 2010. However it's irrelevant really as its all about perspective. Sony were dominant, they are now in a distant last place, this generation is over, they can only try to rebuild their reputation with their next product. |
Quite true!
If you think about it, it´s quite 'amazing' how quickly arrogance and overestimating something can bring something/someone down.
I wonder if some of the execs at Sony look back and regret trading the success the PS brand had for Blu-Ray´s success....but then again, they were so confident people would flock to the system, even though it costed $599...and even if they had played all their cards right, maybe it still wouldn´t have been enough to stop the Wii phenomenon, but at least they´d be in a (maybe) not distant 2nd place and wouldn´t have eaten all the profits the PS2 gave them.
