| albhum said: Well, either you didn't do the analysis you propose or I don't understand your point. Take Japan, since worldwide data is not available for the three systems PS, PS3, GC and you see how the start is very, very similar. Granted both PS and GC were brand new systems and didn't capitalize on past systems, but you can also argue PS3 price point and aggressive difamation campaign are holding it down. http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS®1=Japan&cons2=PS3®2=Japan&cons3=GB®3=Japan&align=1
The argument about the catalog makes no sense, PS3 catalog is bad after six months, but not any worse than that of any console I've had after only six months from launch. Actually, PS2 or Wii were/are even worse and they had/are having a hell of a launch success. PS2 in Europe was launched very expensive (450 EUR in Spain 7 years ago), it took more than 1 year to sell in significant numbers. I guess this is the main problem. About the 360, I see a very similar system bet to the one Dreamcast did, I much preffered first party titles from Sega but then MS is a much stronger company financially and some people love their catalog, that's what makes me think it will not take the path Sega took. Also Sega suffered an early PR attack from Sony claiming PS2 could move 70M polygons when Sega claimed 1M. One year later, when PS2 launched, it proved to be only slightly better than the Dreamcast, since their 70M were theoretical and with no effects at all applied, but it was too late, people had waited for the big, great, missile commander PS2. What I think it is worse in this case is that Sony inflated expectations about their console, assuming a big risk but they were successful at that. Nowadays it is about unfairly trashing PS3 capabilities and hiding x360 big problems (red ring of death being the king of them). That is a much dirtier tactic and annoys me 10 times more. Besides, I did buy a Dreamcast and a Gamecube and never a PS2, I don't like lies no matter where they come from. I thought it was common not to like lies but evidence proves me wrong. |
I wasn't talking about initial launch success/falure ...
I was talking about how a console that has become established as the market leader sells compared to consoles with greater processing power later in its life.
http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS®1=Japan&cons2=N64®2=Japan&cons3=DC®3=Japan
http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS®1=Japan&cons2=N64®2=Japan&cons3=DC®3=Japan&weekly=1
As you can see from the second chart the N64 and Dreamcast (generally speaking) sold worse on a week-to-week basis as compared to the Playstation inspite of the fact that they both were affordable systems (less than $200), had excellent exclusive games, and were far more powerful systems.
Beyond that, I would be hesitant to compare any living console to the Playstation in terms of sales because the Playstation (effectively) had no real competition until the N64 was released (due to massive mistakes by Sega) and the N64 was hated by third party developers.
