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Soundwave on 24 September 2015
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Samus Aran said:
Soundwave said:
Sony had losses but they still sold an incredible number of PS3s considering they started at $600 freaking dollars.

That just shows how dominant they are in the console business, it's like an athlete still being able to play a good game while playing on one leg or something.

Since Sony doesn't give me any of their money either, why the hell should I care if they took losses or not? They still were very clearly able to come out of that generation and are now able to market/sell the PS4 ... so much so that they're whupping Nintendo and MS again like they have for about 16/20 years (80% of the time).

Because we're having a debate whether the PS3 was a failure or not for Sony. It was.

As for them still selling a lot of consoles when they started at $600, well that says more about the people who purchased it at that price than their product.

According to your logic GC was a massive success because it led Nintendo to dominate next-gen.

Oh and Nintendo beat Sony with the PSP, PS3 and PS Vita. Sony beat Nintendo with the PS1, PS2 and PS4. That's 50% of the time...


Yes Nintendo had been able to beat Sony in handhelds. 

But consoles? Sony has flat out dominated them for the vast majority of 20 years now, the only time Nintendo had a decent stretch is when they were able to get casual gamers to buy in and they've since completely lost that audience. 

The PS3 may actually end up outselling the Wii too, depends on how long Sony wants to keep it going, they're going to hit 90 million for sure how far it goes beyond that I don't know. If they reach 100 mill they'll likely overtake the Wii in LTD totals. 

So that means even Nintendo's best selling console will have been outsold by Sony's worst selling console.