So I am interested in PS3 sales
yes I'm a sony hater, and not PS3, I hate Sony about as much as I hate MS when they push on me softwares....
believe in PS3 success of what ??? the little hope of being second....????
now that stated I still have the right to express my opinion in a civilized way, the fact that I agree or disagree shouldn't be the point...
now I wonder how you can even compare PS2 to PS3 sales.... both console don't occupy the same position on the market... PS2 was the lower tech when PS3 is the higher one, the prices are not comparable and the market changed a lot since then.... it's like comparin the sales of the first motorola GSM with the razor today.....
now you said something interesting... you stated that PS3 beat XB in December that indeed is true.... by exactly 142728 unit using data from the 2nd of December to the 5th of January (to compensate the one day missing in December which is really fairly in your advantage their as the gap is the widest the first week of jan compare to the rest) you do realize that in one month it barely did what it needs to do every week to even start talking about closing substantially the gap.... now let say it's virtualy the first year of PS3 like you said, I would then call that a total crash not being able to catch more market share the first Christmas holiday against a console which has been around longer.... especially if the hope is to catch up some day....
now I wonder why people think every PS2 user is going to shift to PS3 at some point??? looking at the difference in generation there is absolutely no sign or reason to believe that...
other point, do you really all believe there is actually 114 million+ PS2 user out there ???? a good part of it is rebuy, for the second if not the third time
final point PS2 is still selling strong I highly doubt that people who just bought a PS2 in 2007 are just about to shit to the PS3.....
that said I really don't see the point in comparing sales number between those 2, however you chose to put it....
and I still don't believe PS3 can win on brand name anymore.... what PS3 can hope to do is save the PS console all together on the long run...
people tend to forget that time is playing against PS3, the more time they take to "jump in" (i had to make that one lol) the less chance it has to happen what ever game, marketing scheme or else they do, if by 2009 they didn't start to seriously catch up they are doomed.... it will be too far in the generation to change the tendency.... and you don't need to hate or love the console to be realistic about that.... I'm not saying there is 0 chance for it to happen (like crazy said time will tell us the truth) but as the week goes what ever big title is coming the chances are shrinking.... in other words even if PS3 close the gap a little with those game if we don't see a real change in 2008 it will be too late... 3rd parties and gamers won't wait until 2010, at that time they'll be already talking about the next gen consoles
P.S. : i'm about to do a group project for my MBA industrial economics class on the gaming industry, i'll be starting a post on it soon to get help data and point of views. anybody's help will be welcome (yeah it means PS3 lovers/haters, WII lovers/haters, XB lovers/haters) just try to be objective and provide accurate data :)
