Imagine if the 360 with the harddrive launched as sub $300 range and isn't still selling for an average price of $300. Imagine if it didn't have the RROD and microsoft realized before nintendo motion control would be a big hit this gen. Imagine if microsoft invested its money on 1st party studios to build up a good list of exclusives. Imagine if the year prior to ps3/wii launch Japan got blown up by an alien race. "The 360 would surely be selling a lot better then the competition."
Yes if you think of the best possibilities for your console launch, ofc its going to sell well. Thing is, perfect launches never happened.
And a lot of the things you guys whish sony did at launch would have ensured failure. Either sony would have gone bankrupt selling a console that costs 700$ to make for $300 or If the ps3 had a $300 initial pricetag, it would have been horribly underpowered. No bluray. No free wifi. God of war and killzone would have looked lame. Forget about uncharted ever becoming a good game, since all its praise is about its graphics... That 17% system failure would have probably been closer to 40% if they rushed out the console to launch one year early. It took them around 1 years to get even 1 decent game. Imagine if it released at 2005 and console owners had to wait 2 years only playing motocross and resistance...
