ils411 said:
i suppose you've never heard of the "product life cycle". many manufacturers project that their products whould have a life cycle of five years. 1st year - introduction 2nd year - aceptance and increase sales 3rd year - product maturity 4th year - decline 5th year - death so its stupid to asume that sales would remain as high as you predict. the ps2 is currently in its decline and would eventualy die in the next year or two. but by then, it would probably have sold 125-130m units. and to set an example the xbox died in what? 5 years or so? same with the cube. died early. the ps2 was first and still outlived both. got to give sony credit for being able to develop a really good product.
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Hmmm.. I've read that in books related to business management before. Those 5 years you've said, are more like 5 stages. Each stage doesn't necessarily last a year. It can be much longer than that.
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