| KeptoKnight said: "and growing the Xbox userbase well beyond what it was with their previous console.So really who are the ones with the problem?" |
At the moment? The 360 and Wii are always going to be cheaper to produce than the PS3. Sony has to sell their more expensive hardware at similar price points to even compete. They have to support free online for everyone (servers, people, and bandwidth to support 10-20 million people isn't cheap). They don't make as much money off addons as the competition. In every respect Sony seems to have gone out of their way to make their business less lucrative. As for this momentum, it's a false momentum since they're actually losing market share and revenue in the video game business as a whole.
Does this look like momentum to you?
(source: Gamesutra)
Sony has actually performed worse in 2009 compared to the competition and losing more money than them as well. To me that isn't momentum and it's not the kind of thing that deserves any kind of congratulations or threads that imply the competition is in trouble. As for Microsoft they may have lost revenue but it was the same amount that Nintendo lost and can be blamed on the economy as a whole.
