GameAnalyser said:
Gained marketshare in Europe - Agreed. Things gotten better in Japan? - No. It still struggles and the nextbox needs to do even better to lift the impending drag it would face in that market. The fact that PS3 has performed well across all regions where Europe has been the biggest performer and the fact that it outsold 360 every year since 2009 is also a clear indicator of who actually won. You are using sales figures, profits(confined to region) and just improved marketshare as elements of console's success. This is the reason why MS strategy never worked in their favor outside US. And the fact that PS3 has outsold 360 in Europe and Japan ages ago is something MS needs to carry over , understand its significance to become the clear winner of next generation. Ofcourse PS3 didn't perform like PS2, but it's on par with PS1. It lost a fair amount of exclusives and marketshare from MS this generation. But it was never poised to fail like how Gamecube and original Xbox failed. |
So you think a console that is still relatively new on the market going from 25m to proba around 80m consoles is a loss? No that is a strategic win. XBL, Kinect, XBLA, software has all been a success as well. PS3 goes from 150m to most likely aroun 95m is a success while theyve lost a ton of money through the years? As I said before people and Im going to include you are looking at this from a fan war rather than a business perspective. Microsoft disrupted the console market and Sony has lost marketshare. That cant be argued at all. for a company to come into the console market like this and take down a console giant is all you can do.
sit generations side by side and see who has gained and who has lost market. Sony can no longer be considered the same dominating company they once were.
Companies and businesses care about profits which means gaining marketshare. Anybody who loses 120 million consoles in marketshare will not be happy with those results. 120 million more consoles were sold from previous generatons to rival companies is where that number is coming from btw.