PS3 V PS2

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royalcaribcruiser123 said:

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royalcaribcruiser123 said:
Got these numbers of vgchartz from March of Last year to March of This year th PS3 has Sold close to 9 million units. Sony has repeatedly stated that they want the PS3 to Last 10 years. This is when at least for me the only real notable game that came out for it was Devil May Cry 4. Many of the most hyped PS3 Games after Metal Gear Solid 4 don't come out until this fall or Winter. I see no problem taking a lower number then the actual sales data for PS3 for the past year and spreading it out for another nine years

Console PS3
Total 8,924,441

 

Even if it gets support, it doesn't mean it will sell 10 years. Sony can promise 10 years of support, but it can't promise ten years of sales. Besides, looking at the sales patterns of losing and winning consoles, sales will decline over time. Maybe it would still sell in 2016, but we are talking about just few consoles a year, which doesn't make financially any sense to anyone in the chain. You could say, that as long as Sony can keep up cutting price and make new different kind of bundles, it will keep up struggling, but 50M LT will be a decent achievement for PS3. Sure it will get few killer apps, but so does its competitors.

The real test for the PS3 is from when Metal Gear Solid 4 comes out into the early part of 2009 when a lot of highly touted games for this system come out. before this stretch and a lot of the games were new series and while some of them are successful some where not. I am going to wait to see how the PS3 performs during this period and it should perform a whole lot better befor I pass judgement. If I remeber correctly sales of the PS2 were hampered for the first couple of years due to the successs of the original Playstation and that what I believe is happening now. I still buy a lot of PS2 JRPG's but that is because I am waiting for games like Valkrie Chronicle, White Knight Chronicles, Last Remnant, Final Fantasy XIII and Disgaea 3. Also the PS3 is still the Only Blu-ray player that meets all the Standards of the Blu-ray association for the new Blu-ray movies and can meet different ones if they change again. Until this can be rectfied the PS3 still makes the most sense for a Blu- ray player.

PS3 would need MGS 4 earlier than that, good thing for it, that GTA4 is soon coming out (although multiplatform, but it doesn't change the fact that GTA4 is in PS3 library). Now, the longer it takes for the system sellers to come, the longer competition is making a gap. Year from now, PS3 is where Wii is at the moment, and Wii still has sold twice the PS3 numbers. In 2009, it's propable, that the PS3 yearly sales start to decline, or even if they would still go up to same level with Wii, Wii isn't going to magically stop selling, when it has the largest library and biggest 3rd party support. And in order to keep sales high, you need to constantly have a system seller coming. As i said, PS3 will benefit for six months to a year from the BD victory. When the better and cheaper models arrive with rewritable players, there's nothing much why you should buy PS3 over them. So, what makes PS3 the only upgradable player?