Miguel_Zorro said:
Who supports their system the longest will be determined by which console keeps selling, earning the support. Case in point - Wii sales took a nosedive before the WiiU was announced. I remember when people here were discussing whether the Wii would eventually outsell the PS2 - it's going to come up 50 million short, because it didn't have longetivity. Creating a product with legs to sell over the long term has merit. There are movies like Titanic or E.T. that grow with time. Then there are movies like Twilight that do massive box office sales at the beginning, but see massive drops week to week. The Wii is Twilight. I bought one. I don't play it. People don't say Titanic's box office is irrelevant because it stayed in theatres longer to hit the numbers it did, even though it took a relatively long 25 days to reach $200 million. |
I'm sorry, what is your point though? The fact remains that Wii outsold PS3 in the 7th gen. I don't see Sony making up a 30 million unit gap against Wii. In all likelihood, they will finish with just under 12mil in sales for 2012, which will be 2 mil shy of 2011 and 2010 sales, and a mil shy of 2009. So, they are already trending downwards. And whether or not they are selling units in Timbuktu in 2015 and beyond isn't going to change that. There are over 83 million PS2 owners who did not stick around and buy a PS3. That's the merit of the product Sony created.
