PS3 performing better than PS1?!

[Kasz216]

NJ5 said:

Bamboleo said:
I wonder how good where the PS1 sales in it's first 3 years to be on par with PS3.

I'd like to have a graph on both 3 sony consoles LTD sales.

There's a Spin here.

Comparing a system(PS3) to another that hadn't that much of spectacular sales before a certain period (PS1) doesn't make that system a lot better from thin air because the old system wasn't selling that good till a certain point after 3~4 years in the market.

For a reason no one compares PS3 sales with PS2 sales, because there, the scenario is much different.





Who's with me?

Yes there's spin, the same spin that Crazzyman was using when comparing PS3 to PS2 (due to the staggered launches). That comparison eventually got derailed when the negative factors caught up, which is why you don't see many people using it anymore.

There's also what Kasz216 said, of course...

 

mario64 said:

PS3 is very successful. I couldn't say if it's more or less successful than PS1, I'd say both are equally successful.

PS1 = first place

PS3 = third place (second if everything goes well for Sony)

PS1 = 66% market share

PS3 = nowhere near 66% market share

Sorry but they're not equally successful, even if someone found a way to get PS3 sales to appear similar to PS1 sales.

 

Still though NJ5... there has to be a more complicated metric then simply Market Share.

 

I mean if the Wii outsells the PS2... will it really be less successful due to it's market share even though it specifically created the new fans that propelled itself to it's larger sales?

For the PS3 who is mostly selling to PS2 fans only that's one thing... but for a console that's created ~33% of it's base and increased the gaming market in a huge way... it's hard to argue against numbers like that.

Hence why such a metric is argueable... it's hard to figure out.