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Samus Aran on 28 April 2015
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DonFerrari said:
Samus Aran said:

Not so lucky with the PSP (huge piracy issues because they didn't use cartridges), PS3 (lost Sony many billions) and PS Vita.


So sony success comes exclusively from luck as well as its demise? And DS use cartridges and that didn't made a dent against piracy. Ps3 uses disc and survived a long time unhacked, x360 was hacked as hell and still leads tie ratio because of their MP strenght. Sure All is luck. Nintendo must have the worst luck on home consoles.

Look at the software tie ratio of the PSP compared to the DS. It's not good. Normally the more units of hardware you sell, the lower the tie ratio is. Why do you think Sony switched to cartridges with the PSVita?

PS3 wasn't a mess because of piracy, but because it was too expensive and too complicated to develop for. It cost Sony billions of dollars, no matter how much hardware it managed to sell in the end.

It's not luck or bad luck, it's dumb decisions. Who has profited the most since PS entered the home console market: Nintendo or Sony? Who ever earned the most, fucked up the least.

The big three have all made stupid mistakes for the record. You're trying to make it sound like Sony only made good decisions, which is far from the truth.

Since Sony entered the console market Nintendo has had 4 success stories: the revival of the Gameboy (Pokémon in 1996), the GBA, the DS and the Wii. 3DS isn't doing too shabby either.