Mazty said:
DanneSandin said:
Mazty said:
Yep. Sony cocked up in several ways - last to market, highest price etc. Maybe that's the reason they have been first on the scene with the PS4? Still though Sony have managed to secure bluray and retain a sizeable amount of the market. 15% of the market is really quite pitiful and the question has to be asked with such an amount, is that company still relevant?
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Nintendo was first to the scene with Wii U, remember? And I don't know where you're pulling these 15% from? As far as I know Wii U currently has 100% of 8th gen sales... Fact. and Sony hasn't secured shit with bluray. physical format is dying, digital is what it's all about, and I still haven't seen DVD die out. bluray is just another format out there, competing with DVD and digital.
It would seem that you're ignoring history. GC had something like 15%, right? I think that's where I got that number from. Was Nintendo really NOT relevant after the GC? Wii was as relevant as a console can be, so that last question from you really was ignorant.
And you still ignore the price Sony had to pay to retain a sizeable market share. They lost billions. Like I said before, It's a somewhat of a Pyrrhic victory
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Let me rephrase "sony were first to the scene with a console that shows noticable improvements over the existing generation".
Hasn't secured shit with bluray? What a technical phrase. Remember how it beat HD-DVD? Remember how in 2010 350 million bluray films were sold? Or how they are going to overtake DVD?
http://www.techradar.com/news/video/blu-ray/blu-ray-player-sales-to-overtake-dvd-players-by-2015-1030442
Yeah please refrain from talking about a topic you haven't researched. DVD doesn't need to be dead for bluray to be successful. Do you realise that Sony actually own one of the bluray printing foundrys meaning they stand to gain a lot from most sales? Plus Sony Pictures?
Do you have evidence that the loss was due to PS3? Or the company as a whole?
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Blu Ray has not reached the level of success either DVD or VHS did, and it never will because digital copies are replacing physical formats.
Mazty said:
Also I know Sony as an entire corporation lost $5 bill....Any links for the $5bill loss on the PS3 alone?
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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/30/ps3-has-lost-sony-4-7-billion-may-be-profitable-next-year/
As for Brawl not being a system seller, if you were following the Nintendo side of gaming at the time you'd know just how much hype surrounded it thanks to how intensely beoved Melee was, and that a vast number of 2008's Wii purchases were the direct result of it.
Smash, like Zelda, is a franchise that even people who claim to have "moved on" from Nintendo will run out and buy a console for, I've seen it so many times, both online and in life. For a generation of Nintendo gamers, their teenage gaming years defined by Melee. Nostalgia is a powerful, powerful drug.
