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bouzane on 07 March 2012
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leper-apostle said:
bouzane said:
leper-apostle said:
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KungKras said:

What Ronster said.

Sony has caused great harm to gaming.


Blaming Sony for Nintendo's and Sega's mistakes would be like blaming Microsoft and Nintendo for the (relative) failure of the PS3. Additionally, their game development has certainly contributed much to gaming, far more than Microsoft or Apple.


Failure of PS3? BWhahaha ok bud, whatever you say.


The PS3 lost 40% of Son'y market share as well as almost four billion dollars.It allowed both competitors to grow their market share which allowed Microsoft to solidify their place in the market. Yes, that is a staggering failure, one of the worst in the history of video games. Additionally, from a gaming perspective the PS3 is certainly inferior to its predecessor.

This gen is nopt close to over yet.................... At the end the market share wont be that far off....

 

PS3 pushed bluray into homes, it launched 1.5 years after its competitor and despite a poor launched has nearly caught it and WW been selling faster then iMS. Sorry its not a staggering failure. What happens one gen dopesn't always carry over to the next, see N64 or Dreamcast. They are different market shares..

 

Cannot compare ps2 to PS3, ps2 had no competition.


It will take nothing short of a miracle for Sony to end this generation down less than 30% in terms of market share and 50 million units short of the PS2. Bluray still sits at only 25% of disc sales. Additionally, Bluray's market is shrinking annually. For example, the week ending December 31, 2011 saw revenue fall 14.7% compared to the previous year (I'd find more current information but the site is horrendous):

http://www.blu-raystats.com/MarketShare/WeekDetails.php?Date=2011-12-31

Sony did not spend over four billion dollars to come in last place and lose a format war to the original DVD. The PS3 will never earn a profit and it allowed Microsoft to anchor itself in the console world. Microsoft lost nine billion dollars launching the Xbox brand (the only failure greater than the PS3) and a strong showing from Sony could have prevented another Xbox from being released. If this is not your definition of failure then I'm intrigued to see what is. Losing money, market share, developer support, aiding your competition and damaging your reputation are all failures.