Mummelmann said:
Viper1 said:
runqvist said:
HappySqurriel said:
I disagree ...
While I think there is some value in comparing sales generation-over-generation to argue whether a system was a success or not, a system's sales are strong or weak regardless of how their previous generation system sold.
The PS-Vita is selling poorly because it is selling at a rate of less than 5 million units per year, not because it is selling at half the rate of the PSP. The XBox 360's sales in Japan are poor because it will (likely) have sold less than 2 million units after being on the market for 8+ years, even though the XBox 360 sold far more units in Japan than the XBox did.
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You can disagree as much as your heart desires, but that does not change the fact that the success of a product is measured against its predecessor.
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Quite possibly the most arbitrary measure of success I think I have ever heard. Zero context.
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By that standard, the PS3 must be the biggest failure in industry history (doubly so since its been bleeding money from the start) and the Wii certainly the most successful product ever (which turned a big profit from the start as well).
That is a strange measure of success runqvist.
OT: Its doing right along the lines where I imagined; pretty good but no where near the Wii. The 5.5 million Nintendo forecast by March 2013 is looking difficult though, unless demand shoots up in Europe and the Wii U somehow defies the February/March drops that hit every year this seems like a rather lofty goal right now.
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Ps3 was a huge failure for sony and wii was a huge success for nintendo... now it is time to see how ps4 and wii u will do. I think wii u will be a huge failure for ninty and ps4 will be a success for sony.
