| Kyuu said: I didn't know there were still people out there thinking the PS3 could outsell the Wii. I used to be one myself because I assumed Sony can cut the price down to the $160 range. But it's too late to do anything now. They've repeated the same mistake they made with the PS2 at its last stages (Yes, the PS2 had the potential to sell over 165 million but they dropped the price to $99 at a very late stage) but then again, Sony is more about profits today than ever before. |
I highly doubt either will happen but like you I used to believe that PS3 could reach 100 mill.
With all this focus on digital and streaming (Netflix, HBO Go, PS Now, PS Vue, etc.) I thought Sony might put out a new and cheap PS3 without blu-ray drive that would look like the perfect companion for the PS4 (like MS did with Xbox 360). Maybe they could even design it as an extension to PS4 so that the 2 consoles shared the PS4's cpu and gpu and PS3's cpu (CELL) and in this way be able to ditch the expensive NVIDIA gpu as well and sell a 250GB PS3 for $99.
Though in order to reach 100 mill they would have to sell a lot of consoles in emerging markets and here the PS3 would have to come with a blu-ray drive and a gpu because of poor internet speeds (excessive download times) and because of few PS4 owners (no gpu sharing).
So because of the expensive PS3 parts (blu-ray drive, NVIDIA gpu and CELL cpu) and because of Sony's position (their actions need to be profitable) I don't think any of this will be possible at all.
Initially I thought Wii U wouldn't have any trouble selling 25 mill coming from Wii success and caterering to the tablet-loving-casuals.
