I guess you could say its still a complete failure in every respect compared to the PS2. Compared to where they were in 2006 they are more of a financial failure and less of a market failure. Depends on how you look at it really. One could say they traded short term financial performance for longer term market performance, so they are both relevant to each other. Going forward its still a failure to capitalise on the PS2's performance however they can probably mitigate the level of failure with good performance over the next couple of years.
So:
Against the PS2? Still a complete failure.
Against the launch of the PS3? Its been a mixed bag of financial vs market share tradeoffs.
Over the next few years on its own? Probably fairly good to good performance.
Long term? They're still not out of the woods yet.
Do you know what its like to live on the far side of Uranus?
