Is the PS3 a failure?

[fluky-nintendy]

BMaker11 said:

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.

Well, sales wise it still is a great achievement. But that came at a huge cost and only from 2011 I think, they started to make money out of each unit sold to the consumer (that's what isn't mindblowing about PS3, its high cost values that gave Sony some headaches). With PS4 they are doing everything right, so that's the best way to redeem from the PS3 semi-disaster: returning to the throne :).