America Up!!

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Smashchu2 said:

LOL WOW.

1)I've answered all of your questions (Heck, you didn't naswer my question. It will be bolded this time)

2)This is over time. Sony's Slim boost is falling and there is no doubt about it. This particular week was bad, but ig you look at weekely sales, this was happening before this week.

3)This is you being void of reason or cherry picking. Take your pick. Everyone knew the PS3 was loosing money, some even before the system was out. To say what you did is ignorance at it's finest (then again, you fail to see the failure that is the PS3). I said that the $18 number comes from an article on VGChartz, and I'm not going to dig it up just for you (you'll ignore it anyway). Plus, logic would dictate the figures were higher anyway. Sony has cut the pricce 50% over it's life. If the PS3 was produced at $510 and sells for $500, and the next day you sell it for $400, you lkose more money. Now, you lost $110 on each system sold. This is why $18 is a low ball because Sony has dropped the price so much. Unless, magically, the system's production cost fell within a few hours, the system would have lost $50-$100 more a price drop. Price cuts drop profitability. This is why what you said makes no sense. The absents of evidence is not the evidence of absents.

4)We aren't talking about the 360, so why are you trying to shift topics? If you and I are running for a bear, I just have to be faster than you. Doesnn't matter how fast I am because you still get eaten. That still means that Sony has to out sell the 360 by 5,000. The Gap gets bigger every week the 360 beats the PS3. But, in truth, there is no hope of Sony coming back. For one, they only increase in quanity demanded, so they have to cut price to sell more. Second, the gap is too big and the 360 outsells the PS3 every week. They can't catch up anymore. That is a pipe dream. Microsoft is up by 5 million units. That is how much more Sony has to sell than Microsoft, and they haven't even started yet.

5)Business does not opperate in a vaccum. The failures of yesterday are the failures of today and of tomorrow. What you are doing is the deffinition of cherry picking. You want to look at only today and ignore all other points, despite the fact they are very relevant. Has Sony not made the system cost so much to produce, they would not be in this bind today and struggeling to break even. If Sony had made the system affordable, they might not be struggeling against the cheaper 360 today. Everything is related.

So that I'll ask you. Why is the PS3 not a failure today?

You didn't answer all his question's. You're also glossing over his post's and just keep yammering on and repeating yourself.

If you can't provide decent sources, then we have no real information to base your theories on, you've read information and yet you can't identify if those article's were even valid or if they were even official from Sony. I've seen plenty of articles, taking plenty of guesses on the going on's of Sony's PS3, I can't use guesses to back up my arguments. So his right, until you provide a good source, then everything you've said is just guess work.

CGI also never claimed that the PS3 was ever going to outsell the 360 in it's lifetime in America. He only asked that if you think Sony is doing badly by selling 45,000 in it's worst territory, then it's main competitor be doing much worse because it's selling 50,000 in it's best territory. I don't think anyone think's that Sony will over take the 360 in America, but it's kicking it's ass pretty hard in the rest of the world.

CGI also never said that the PS3 didn't have past failures. It's just that as of last year, the PS3 has been selling very well and has seen a tremendous growth every week since the price cut and it's one of the few consoles which is consistently posting a growth in both hardware and software Year on Year. A 100% rise in software is pretty good for a console that's meant to be doing badly.

Sony may never make back all their losses in this generation, but they've shown that their not giving up yet and over the next couple of year's they may make a healthy profit from the Playstation brand in preparation for the next generation. If going from a dying console to outselling your direct competition weekly world wide, selling more software compared to the competition, making a profit on every console sold and having one of the most stellar line up's in Sony's history is considered doing badly, then I think your the one who's delusional.