Retrasado said:
HappySqurriel said:
With how the PS3 has performed so far, it will be a miracle if the PS3 is not considered a failure (or a stumble if you'd prefer). Realistically, Sony has a pretty tough battle ahead in order to become profitable on the generation, to not lose a ton of third party support, to sell to 1/3 of PS2 owners, and to not come in third place. Certainly, the PS3 will have performed better than most when it comes to raw sales numbers (and to a lesser extent marketshare) but on its own this is a pretty hollow measure; the only company which has fallen as far as Sony will (probably) fall in this generation is Nintendo, and it took Nintendo 3 successive generation of constantly increasing competition to fall that far. I don't want people to misunderstand what I am saying to mean that the PS3 is selling at an awful rate. I do think it is important to look at a consoles performance in context with the previous systems to determine whether it was successful or not; as an example, even though the XBox 360 and PS3 may end up selling at a similar level (roughly 40 Million) I would consider the XBox 360 successful whereas the PS3 would be a failure because the XBox 360 would represent growth in userbase size as well as marketshare. |
Wow man, where have you been for the last 5 months? In the first paragraph, you made two absolutely ridiculous statements. first of all, Sony has announced that they are pretty much breaking even with the 40 GB PS3 and I think I am safe in saying that they will be able to drop the cost of production further in the next few years. |
No, no they didn't. Some random group theorized they were breaking even. Sony had no official statement on their stance. Furthermore, the last intereview i saw was that they planned to break even mid 2009.
