PS3 will be the 4th best selling console of all time in the end

[Squilliam]

machinegunmike said:

Squilliam said:

A 10 year lifespan is a function of consumer acceptance. Only winning consoles from any generation can be sure to achieve this, the PS3 is not the winning console.

There have been no substantiated rumours of any Xbox 360 replacement. Also statements from Microsoft directly contradict any idea that you can say that 2011 will be the year a new Xbox will be released. However there have been semi-substantiated rumours of an additional 4 hardware revisions which imply otherwise so with no evidence to support an earlier release and a little evidence to support a later release you'd have to go with the later release for now.

So in short, you have belief rather than proof or even evidence on your side.

If my belief is = to your belief then if I believe something to the opposite of what you believe does that not cancel it out?

I guess you missed the part where i said that it only has to sell 10millions units a year starting next year at 300$ps3 slim for only 5years

to reach 75million ps3s sold, Whats so hard to belive in that?

And just because microsoft released a statement about how long  the 360 will last doesnt make it true,

These are the same people who said that the 360 only had 16%failure rate when infact it had 33% failure rate.

Yeah it 'only' has to keep selling at the same rate... any console could do that... or not. Do you not realise it gets progressively harder to sell a console as the market gets saturated?

I always assume that the statements released by a console company are false or misleading, you should do the same. At least base it on some evidence... and no the fact that the PS1/PS2 lasted 10 years is not evidence because they satisfied a specific criteria which the PS3 has not, they were the number 1 console of their generations. The PS3 will be extremely fortunate to pick up 2nd.