Pachter: "Wii U won't save Nintendo, phones took 35% of the market"

[archbrix]

Ail said:

archbrix said

The statement wasn't that the PS3 fell; it was that Sony fell with the PS3.  They've lost BILLIONS this gen, tons of marketshare and the console's sales pale in comparison to its predecessor.

And the PS3 was hardly the key integral factor of blu-ray's success.  That would be the fact that every single major movie studio except Universal was going with blu-ray, many (such as 20th Century Fox, Disney, etc) exclusively.

Sony lost billions this last 8 years because of their poor phone adventure with Erikson and because of their failing TV business, the gaming business as a whole is a small contributor in Sony overall results..

3.5 Billion+ is hardly a "small contributor"...

Even more when you add the 1 Billion loss from 2010 (some of that was from Vaio losses), and the losses for 2011...

http://www.vg247.com/2009/10/30/sony-ps-division-has-lost-4-7-billion-since-launching-ps3/