PS3 performing better than PS1?!

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RolStoppable said:

MikeB said:
@ RolStoppable

There's nothing dubious about investing massively into a platform. It's probably financially interesting to Sony from the grand perspective as a consumer electronics company from a long term and wider perspective.

My point is that the PS1 would have sold much, much more in the same timeframe if Sony had been willing to lose $5 billion on it. Or the other way around, the PS3 would have sold much less if Sony intended to keep it as profitable as the PS1.

The PS3 benefited from an enormous advantage compared to the PS1 (this isn't even including brand awareness), yet it still only performed about on par in the same timeframe. So why should this be seen as an achievement of the PS3?

Not to mention the huge factor that PS1 was an unknown, while PS3 came in with the name of the best selling home console ever in it's back. There is just a huge, huge difference.