| curl-6 said: PS3 may have accrued a sizable userbase when all was said and done, but it lost Sony billions of dollars and still couldn't catch up to the Wii. |
You make a lot of false assumptions. Firstly, while Sony was selling the PS3 initially at a loss, after the second interation that stopped. Secondly, it allowed Sony to determine the next-gen format, bluray, which their competition now has to use. Thirdly, Sony actually won the marketing segement - the Wii was not in the same market as the 360 or PS3 due to the utterly different audiences they catered for. No one compares Audi sales to Hyundai sales, and the same can be said for the Wii and PS/360 sales - the game lineup and marketing campaigns show that they were not selling to the same audience and therefore comparing their sales makes absolutely no sense at all.
