Was Leo-J right about the PS3 price-cut effect?

[binary solo]

Icyedge said:

binary solo said:
When you think about it Wii is the biggest come back ever.
However, within a single generation the way I see it is this:

To be comeback ever your sales need to be in the doldrums with a lot (if not the majority) of people saying things like "This console is going to spell the exit of company A from the gaming industry" or "Company A could go bankrupt because of this console". And other such predictions of doom and destruction. Was PS3 subject to these predicitons? YES. Before the price cut PS3 was a very real possibility of finish its generation with worse sales than the gamecube, which is the worst selling console out of all the consoles among the 3 current console makers.

So the PS3 was in the right position for a comeback.

Next, your sales need to shift up a gear or 2 to permanently come out of the sales doldrums. Well it did that with quite a bang and it appears for the time being to be a permanent sales shift. This is contrary to what many people were predicting that teh price cut w

Good points there.

Dang, you had to quote the semi-finished, accidentally posted, needing to be edited version of my post. The final version is a bit longer and makes a few more points.