PS3 Hits 24 Million After Data Comes In?

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RolStoppable said:

Kantor said:

Next targets:

MegaDrive/Genesis: 29 million (PS3 is this gen's Genesis for now I guess)

Atari 2600: 30 million (an interesting one. Generation winner if I'm not mistaken)

Nintendo 64- 32.93 million (And one of the best consoles of all time)

Super Nintendo Entertainment System: 49.1 million (again, a generation winner)

All of those are pretty much confirmed, I think. Tentative one:

Nintendo Entertainment System: 61.91 million

LOL ones:

PlayStation: 102.49 million

PlayStation 2: 138 million

Even behind the 360 and Wii, the PS3 could potentially be one of the top five best selling home consoles of all time. Failure, my ass.

The PS3 will remain a failure even if it becomes one of the top five selling home consoles of all time, simply because it's highly doubtful that it will ever make a net profit. Look at it this way: If you have thousands of people working on a project for a decade (R&D, game development, marketing, PR) and end up with losses it's certainly going to be a disappointment.

That's what you should always remember when you see someone call the PS3 a failure and that also was, is and will always be one of the main reasons why the PS3 is labelled a failure. It is and never was solely about sales numbers, it's also about tons of money going to waste.

I regularly see people forget about the financial side, so I hope this helps these people to understand why the PS3 is still called a failure and will continue to be called one.

The cost of the lost that sony gets from every PS3 is so small that they make it up and profit from every piece of Software they sell for the system.