| fluky-nintendy said: Not a failure but it's not a major success like the PS2 either, and if Sony stand still doing nothing for it including not reducing price at a huge cost, the sales today would look similar to the N64. So yeah it was nothing mindblowing but could have been a lot worse. |
4th best selling home console of all time it nothing mind blowing? Sure, if you compare it to PS2, it's not "mind blowing", but the PS2 was a breakout success, the de facto console of the 6th gen (24M and 21M from XB and GC? Come on, now) and was on the market for 12 years. If we were to chart console sales, PS2 wouldn't be a part of the trend. It'd be the outlier that was discredited. That's not a precedent that should be set for gauging how "successful" a console is.
When you consider that, disbarring the PS2, only the Wii and PS1 are above it, at ~100M and the closest thing to it, other than the 360 with basically identical sales, is the NES, with 20M+ less units sold, I think that says something.
@sales2099
I dunno how you can say it failed its "brand history". Like I said, PS2 was an outlier. PS2 was pretty much a default choice, because GCN and XB didn't offer anything. PS2 was on the market for 12 years. You can't judge the PS brand off an anomaly. 360 offered much more than XB, and as a result, was a more attractive option and as a result, got more sales than its predecessor. Meaning PS3 wasn't an automatic choice like PS2 was. Sony can't control what Xbox does, so can't tarnish the PS name just because Xbox got better. If a new phone series came out with a uniform/standardized OS across its models came out, and iPhone sales subsequently fell, you can't say iPhone messed up its brand just because the competition was more....competitive.
