SONY: PS3 over 50m units sold and 8m MOVE units sold.

[FinalEvangelion]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

kitler53 said:

hudsoniscool said:

i know this is a ps3 thread but with ps3 at 50 million(great milestone) 360 is probably at a liitle over 53 million right now. does anyone know if ps3 has gained on the 360 since last official numbers. damn its taken 5 years for ps3 to gain 3 million by that it could take another 5 until they are even.

  i think the averge move owner has about 2 moves so that would put the unique users at about 4 million, which i think is decent.

you're forgetting the average ps3 owner has no friends and plays with himself.

8 million shipped means 8 million unique users!

Not true. PSN may not be as "In" as XBox Live, but it definitely does offer a competitive free service. In truth, when you have exclusives with genre defining characters, who needs to talk to friends for multiplats? I barely talk to my friends on the PS3's because I'm busy playing exclusives. I play on my 360 with nothing but multiplats and my friends are always on it doing the same. Rarely do I ever see a friend playing an exclusive title.

I think he was being sarcastic.

 

Anyhow, the NGP and PS4 will be the first consoles to launch under Kaz Hirai (or is he being promoted?) rather than Ken Kutaragi.  It will be interesting to see how that plays out.  Kaz Hirai did save the Playstation brand this generation, and I think something needs to be said about that.  He had a lot on his shoulders when he had to take over the sinking ship from Ken Kutaragi.  I'm not sure how anyone could have done it any better.

 

Next generation, two things need to happen for Sony.  They need to figure out how not to have such a huge R&D and losses at the beginning.  Also, the need to figure out how to recover their brand image in America.  America is still where their brand image is largely tainted.  There is still alot of resident hate in America toward the Playstation brand and lots of loyalty to the Xbox brand.  In order for Sony to get the American support again, they are going to have to tear people away from Xbox Live.  Single player exclusives don't sell to the American crowd anymore.