Mr Puggsly said:
Hah, 360 is about to end up 3rd? Will it be year eight of the 360's life when that finally happens? Great job Sony! Wii U isn't near dead, its not bleeding billions of dollars like the PS3 did. Anyhow, I wasn't trashing Sony. I just pointed out a big reason why PS1 and PS2 had dominance of the market. If the best exclusives on PS3 are Sony IPs, its no wonder so many people migrated to the 360. |
Yeah cause a year's head start and being $200 more expensive didn't hurt at all. Also until holiday 07 Sony really didn't have any big games other than Resistance while MS had released Gears and was releasing Halo against Ratchet (my favorite franchise ever but not big enough) and Uncharted 1 (not a super popular series until 2). MS blew their load early in the gen and had the 2 biggest advantages you can have, no HD competitor and a lower price point. Combine all those reasons with the fact that Wii launched the same holiday at under half the price of PS3 and you can see why they lost sales.
Even with all that PS3 sells at a higher pace than 360 and has yet to get a $200 model. The only reason it is outselling 360 is either free online or exclusives...maybe both. It's still more expensive so it's not price (other than if people factor in the aforementioned online fee). It's just logical that one of these 2 things is selling PS3 faster than 360 and they aren't even the same price yet (or maybe ever). I think it's been made clear by PS3, WiiU, and N64 that people aren't afraid to jump ship so all this talk of MS "gaining ground gen over gen" and how that will somehow factor into next gen is just strange for people to say. Take away those big advantages and people can just as easily swing back to Nintendo or Sony.
