| cgnobody said: crazzyman, i feel your pain. some individuals are just in denial that if sony were to have canned their old platform, as the competition did, that the PS3 selld would be better. i think the reason we see so little in the sells on the PS3 side is that sony still has the ps2 in full motion eating up a large portion of VG sales. you really have to ask yourself...if microsoft still supported the x-box, or if nintendo still marketed the gamecube...would we be seeing the current sales on thier next-gen endevors? reality= probably not most people who bought an xbox 360 were buying it because they canned the original. same with those that bought the wii. they wanted to continue purchasing from the nintendo label. but in order to do so they HAVE TO buy the new console. these STUPID people as you call them, are just not realizing that sony would be doing better in their next-gen campaign if they had canned the ps2. i think we'll see more sells as they faze out the ps2 in a couple years. i don't see anything wrong with combining the ps2 and ps3 sales, seeing as the both count as sells for sony. if you others have problems with that, then you're just realizing that your prefered console isn't doing as well as you thought. sorry. |
Sony had the option of doing the same, but I'm guessing they knew the PS3s record-breaking price meant slow sales for the first few months or so. Blu-ray component production was also low at first, so they may have felt their console production would be limited as well.
Sony may change it's mind and can the PS2 in a year or two, but I doubt they anytime soon unless:
a. The PS3/PS2 sales ratio suddenly and dramatically swings toward PS3.
b. They stop bleading so much cash on each PS3 sold.
c. They find a way to add PS2 compatibility back to the lower-end PS3 before their PS3 installed base becomes hopelessly fragmented, backwards-compatibility-wise.
Of all the steps Sony has taken to make the PS3 a success, I would say that sacrificing backwards-compatibility to get the lower-end price-point down was definitely a mistake. Many have criticized MS for not making a hard drive standard on all 360's because it lowered the bar for what the software publishers knew would be a baseline machine, but at least a hard drive can be added later to a low-end 360. There isn't any way to add backwards-compatibility to a low-end PS3 after the fact... well, other than buying a PS2 and sitting it beside it on the shelf. 
