Sony: 70% sales growth YoY for PS3; receives 17 VGA nominations

[killuminiti]

Avinash_Tyagi said:
^Nope, because without the 360, PS3 would have been launched even higher priced, at the time they didn't consider Nintendo a threat, So Sony sales would have been even worse.

Even at its $600 price tag, Sony wouldn't have benefited much from the absence of a 360 as the price and lack of games at launch would have kept sales down, Wii on the other hand would have sold as it did, as a result, Developers would have had to go to the Wii, because of its sales, because the PS3 base would have been small still and it would have been expensive to develop for, and due to the much smaller install base of the PS3 and no 360 to help share the multiplats, the PS3 would have seen even less support resulting in even fewer sales. So PS3 would probably be even worse off than it is. Having the 360 allowed PS3 to see games even though at its price its sales were terrible, and its expensive to develop for.

But that's not what I was saying, I wasn't saying no MS console, I said no 360, if MS released a different console radically different from the 360, so games from the 360 and PS3 couldn't be shared, a similar thing would have happened, becuase developers would not be able to share multiplats between the PS3 and 360, the PS3 would have seen lower support and sales.

if they 360 didn't exist sony would have lunched the ps3 last year or 2years ago