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phil on 01 January 2008
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Legend11 said:
weezy said:

At the 1st day of 2008....

1 year into the "next gen" Nintendo Wii will be on the verge of hitting 20 Mil?

While the Sony PS3 is nearing 9 mil in the same time?

And 2 years into the game, Microsoft has only gotten rid of 16 mil 360's?

 

Is this the year of price cuts yet again for 360? because I see sony is silently creeping on microsoft's ho hum sales.

 

I predict Sony and Microsoft duking it out by dropping prices while Nintendo just continues to do its own thing on its own terms :)


I think the only reasons the PS3 even got the sales it did this year were brand loyalty (especially in some European countries) and the RROD problem with the 360. Basically the decisions Sony made on purpose were bad ones and hurt the PS3's chances for success. On the other hand the things that hurt the 360 were unforseen (it's not like the RROD probem was purposely planned like including the cell and blu-ray in the PS3). Basically Sony lucked out because Microsoft stumbled through an unforseen problem.

Had the 360 never encountered the RROD problem I have no doubt the system would have blown past the 20 million mark sometime in 2007.

As for the Wii I don't think games like Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, and Super Paper Mario, deserve much credit if any for the system's success and that Wii Sports deserves pretty much all the credit. Without Wii Sports I believe the system would have been another Gamecube because it's not like the Nintendo hardcore would have suddenly ballooned up out of nowhere, if there were that many of them the Gamecube would have been far more sucessful.


If you don't think Microsoft noticed the RROD problem in QA, then you think they're even more incompetent than I do.  In all likelihood, they knew about the problem, but went forward anyways to be first out the gate.  They figured consumers would fall for the trick, allowing them to get a larger game library faster.  They were right.