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spaceguy on 21 January 2013
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Persistantthug said:
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MoHasanie said:
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hmm, seems to me that Sony is more interested in seeing the Xbox 720 because they are not sure what to do with the PS4. A lot of people here blame Sony for releasing a year after Microsoft and claim the head start was a big factor in the PS3's poor performance, and I think that will be a big factor next generation too.


What poor performance?

PS3 has been outselling XBOX 360 for several years in a row.

And according to some reports, XBOX 360 is the 7th generation console in last place.

Just sayin.

Sorry, I needed to specify that I meant its poor peformance when it lauched. Of course now its doing fine. 


But even then, that's not really true.

The first full year on the market, the full 2007 year, the PS3 did approx 8 million units.  Do you consider that poor performance?  That's actually pretty good.  At the very least, it's far from poor.

In comparison, XBOX 360's first full year (2006), 360 it did less than 7 million units.

http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_date.php?reg=Global&ending=Yearly

 

 

For all intent and purpose, You're sentiment is wrong.  But I do understand that you're not the only one.  I just wanted to educate you a bit. ;)


You missed a big part, the first year sony had to drop price and lost lots of money. Thats not a success if you have to cut cost right off the jump. So I think your intent and purpose is wrong.  I just wanted educate what you easily left out. Sony took it in the shorts in the beginning.

I don't see how Sony wanting to drop the price is something of a failure.

The PS3 had several price drops.....1 pricedrop per year, and every year until 2010.

Since when is it a failure if a company wants to pass on manufacturing cost savings onto customers?  You sentiment seems a bit backwards to me.

They didn't drop because they wanted to. It's because sales where a mess at first.