| MikeB said: @ Avinash_Tyagi If you don't call financial and marketshare losses a failure then I don't know what you'd define as a failure Large scale investments were anticipated (not the weak dollar though, making matters worse than anticipated for the states). Their CFO even stated that if they would have allowed the PS3 to sell more in the past, their losses would have been greater. Sony anticipates to generate profits on the PS3 for 2010, if the PS3 was a failure for Sony can only be judged at the end of this generation and not at the beginning. And of course one will have to take into account the big picture as well (earlier than anticipated Blu-Ray movie victory, additional HDTV sales, etc) |
Investments may have been expected, but I doubt Sony was expecting to be in third place, and were likely expecting Software to make up for losses in hardware, something that has not happened.
Sony may make a profit on the PS3 next year, if they don't price cut, but will likely not recoup what they have already lost on the system.
They may have won the blu-ray war, but are sill losing to DVD's and rentals and Direct downloads are rising, threatening any future for Blu-ray
Sony lost the HDTV market, to Samsung I believe, so HDTV success there likely goes to Samsung not to Sony
Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)
