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Nevermore on 02 January 2013
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GameAnalyser said:
Nevermore said:
It probably will overtake the xbox, but even if it does by a margin, I would still consider the PS3 the looser of this gen (sales wise). Why? While selling a couple more console will give Sony a nice chunk of change in their pockets, it doesn't remotely cover the extra money MS made with software sales during all that time in which they had a bigger market share. This gen will be long over by the time Sony would have truly equalled MS.

Anyway, that's just the money perspective. I still prefer the Sony exclusives over the MS and Nintendo ones.

The PS3 still continues to sell at a pace that matters for Sony. And consistency was kept up round the years since 2009's slim launch. Although sales-wise the true impact wasn't created with respect to MS software sales  in US, I would still say Sony emerged from loosing this gen to ultimately winning it from behind by gradually improving the market share over the years.

Well, this depends on how you define 'winning' a generation. Your definition, as I take it, is to estimate the market share and/or buying strength of the consumer base at the end of the generation and see who has the biggest market. In this case, Sony has a strong case going for it, having a faster growing and only marginally smaller market share than the competition and healthy software sales. However, I think this would ignore the timespan in which Sony had a much lower market share, during which MS and Nintendo had lots of time to reap profits from their game sales.

I'd be interested to see how much first and third party software was sold in total for the respective consoles (perhaps with the sales of the first-party titles adjusted to account for the development costs) so you can really see how much money each platform made through software.