PS3 VS 360 the battle is still on

[justinian]

Acevil said:

Skeeuk said:

ps3_jrpg_gamer said:

Wii has been crowned king in home consoles

PS3 and 360 are close in WW numbers 

since november 2005 with the launch of 360 until today no-one can say which will end-up second

so Overall which do you think  will win?

i woulnt call wii as king of consoles, what is it king of exactly, in sales it WAS but games its not even near

You might hate this even more, but I think the problem with this whole site is the focus on sales vs a better measurement system like ROI.

ROI is more important to a business organization, and the Ps3 has horrible ROI, almost as bad as the original xbox. Nintendo will always seem to have positive ROI, so they win on their own merits. Xbox360 is also proving to start having a positive trend, that actually might make them green, and take off some of the mess that was created in the past. 

Also the king of consoles based on games, is subjective (as in I think, the wii library is better, or I think the ps3 library is better), thus anyone can say anything, but if you are going to use a bases such as metacritic, or gamerankings.....then you know the console that wins is the 360, which I strongly disagree with. 

That is a really good point but unfortunately such things seem to be overlooked by many.

This is obvious when people keep going on about price cuts. "MS can cut the price" or "Sony should cut the price" are terms often used here just to get their console of choice to finish ahead the other, totally disregarding ROI.

Ultimately the more consoles you sell means the more successful you are, which is different from say the cellphone market where the more money you make (regardless of your market share), the more succesful you are.

So Apple can have less than 5% market share but still make almost 20% of all profits in the industry making it a success.

On the other hand in the console business, the xbox sold more than the gamecube so was therefore "more successful" and "it finished second", even though the xbox lost $bns and gamecube made money.

It's just the way this industry is viewed. It's not going to change soon.