Is the PS3 a failure in America?(Compared to the PS2 &PS1)

[NightDragon83]

Few things:

1. The original Xbox was not a "flop"... it was M$'s first foray into console gaming, and they managed to outsell Nintendo's latest system in the US, and Nintendo had been doing the home console thing for nearly 20 years by that time. The reason it was discontinued as soon as the 360 was launched was so that Microsoft could put all their efforts into supporting the system and encourage people to upgrade to the 360 faster, which if you ask me, was a pretty successful strategy.

2. The main reason for the PS3's poor sales in comparison to PS1 and 2 was that it was prohibitively expensive at launch... $299 for PS1/PS2 at each launch vs $499/$599 for PS3 just 5 years later. Prior to this generation, every console that launched at more than $300 was deemed a failure in the NA market (Saturn was the last one to do this at $399, and we all know how that turned out).

3. Even after all that, the PS3 has still managed to outsell the Xbox, GameCube, N64, and Sega Genesis at the same points in their life cycles in NA, and it has outsold all of these consoles PLUS the SNES in total worldwide sales to date.

So to answer your question, no. The PS3 is not a failure in America. Not by a long shot.