the_dengle said:
^ This was not in the original article. The Wii U's launch was not, in fact, worse than the PS3's. This is where you are cherry-picking definitions; nowhere does the article say anything positive about the PS3's launch, nor that it was "better" than the Wii U's. Know why? Because it wasn't, and if it was, this chart wouldn't prove that any more than it proves that the PS3 and 360 both had better launches than the original Wii. Noting the PS3's launch price doesn't help your case. That is different from sales -- it factors more into revenue and profit. And if you want to go there, even at $600 the PS3 was losing Sony money with every sale, so its higher price does nothing to make it "more successful" from Sony's perspective. You also drag the vastly different modern market into the issue when handhelds are brought up. I suppose you don't think smartphones and tablets can damage home console sales, as well? |
Two things:
1) Are total sales the only way of defining how successful a launch is?
2) Sales are affected by launch price. Saying it only factors into revenue and profit is not true.
I didn't drag handhelds into this debate. As I said if you think the figures don't count for anything than that is your opinion & time will tell.
