pokoko said:
I've seen it written that the PS3's installed base has passed that of the 360. If that's true, then the 360's high failure rate would have to be the cause. There is no other reason why it would have sold more units yet have less active consoles. Still, the installed base was virtually tied, so the difference in dead/unreplaced 360s compared to dead/unreplaced PS3s would seem to be between 1 and 2m. That means a higher number of 360s are replacements purchased at the owner's expense, but you also have to assume that some of those dead 360s were replaced with a PS3 and/or a Wii, instead. The RRoD fiasco didn't just cost Microsoft upwards of a billion dollars, it also cost them market-share. Fanboys might care about total units sold, without context, but I have no doubt Microsoft would rather have finished in "3rd place" rather than have had the RRoD event take place. |
I highly doubt that. It was their early lead in console sales and a year head start that secured them many 3rd party games which is what helped them gain market share. Had they not released a year ahead of sony that would not of happened and this would be a very different gen. If anything the RRoD only really hurt them in Japan where quality is really important in electronics. In the US it didn't really matter as qualtiy is not as important as price and with the 3 year warranty it didn't really matter if yours broke as you could get it replaced.
