| Piernik said: No, PS3 is still a huge flop. Sony went from having 80% market share to just 30%. They lost billions, everything what they made on PS1 and PS2. They also lost exclusive support of 3rd parties. |
Well if VGChartz is right the XBox did outsell the Gamecube as well last gen. Personally I think Microsoft did really well outside of the RROD issue and not making many non-Kinect exclusive games the last 2-3 years. People can forget about Live going free because that's not going to happen with all the subscriptions sold.
PS3 did lose a lot of market share and you can blame their initial launch period where their price tag was too high (but if it was lower it would have cost Sony even more money) and the fact that Blu-Ray was not essential as DVD was. PS2 was not only a great gaming system but was one of the cheapest DVD players on the market.
The third party exclusive thing? Touchy subject. But bottom line is companies want to maximize their sales and they believed being on multiple platforms those sales would be better.
Not going to go into Sony's losses. It was the price they paid to dominate the blu-ray market and they thought it was important. If it wasn't for the RROD costs Microsoft would have been more profitable years ago as well. Luckily for MS they have other means of making money.
It's just that simple.
