Looking at that chart I would think sony should focus more on profits than on power next time. How can they sit there and say they wouldn't have handled ps3 differently? This whole gen they said Kutaragi was right. I think the big wigs at their game division are saying all this to save face.
This whole chapter reads like sega read towards the end of their days. They released a console significantly higher priced and used it to undermine the competition because they were better than everybody else. It is also more complex to develop for and resulted in the majority of multiplats running poorer. They are even in the position where they have to act fast or sink. I remember people were highly skeptical of dreamcast but the failure of the saturn forced their hand before they were ready to move. Its similar here except ps3 caught on. The difference is sony would like ps3 to last longer than this but microsoft are likely going to force their hand. They would obviously like to make as much profit as possible before moving on but they need to launch close to microsoft.
Its funny because people declare nintendo doomsday just because they "only do videogames" but nintendo have consistently made healthy profits with every generation and aren't in debt at all.
One more thing to complete my year = senran kagura localization =D
