A good example of why Sony Consoles always succeed.

[curl-6]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

curl-6 said:

I feel like with the PS3 Sony lost sight of what made them popular in the past by trying too hard to be a high-end luxury piece of tech instead of being an accessible mainstream device like PS1, PS2, and for that matter PS4. That kind of left them vulnerable to the Wii in particular which was able to scoop up a lot of the PS2's casual base.

They had to save blu ray or else the venture would've been a failure. Yes, I'll agree they came off like a bunch off snobs.later on I read up on it and understood their position because Sony has a track record of influencing playback formats  formats inside and outside the gaming industry. I went on the 360 and was apart of he Wii60 group. Remember that? (Lol)once uncharted 2 came out I jumped on the PS3 and fell in love with Sony all over again. This one their first party got stronger.

the Wii didn't scoop up the ps2 casual base though (or well even a substantial amount). That was a new market of casuals who don't traditionally game on consoles. If you look at the PS3 and 360s lifetime sales Microsoft capitalized on sonys mistakes by shaving off half of their previous market share. They both had over 160+ million consoles between them which was what the ps2 sold. The reason people noticed nintnendos market wasn't traditional was because hardcore third party games found it hard to make major profit off of a 100 million selling platform and Nintendos first party was selling brilliantly. I was happy for them.

I don't buy for a second that the 70 million PS2 buyers who never got a PS3 all went to Microsoft. Wii and PS2 were both the go-to mainstream of their generation, naturally there would be overlap.