Kyuu said:
... The $499 20 GB model was also fully backwards compatible, silly. And ALL PS3 models are backwards compatible with PS1. This is hardly my main point anyway, I was more focused on the paid multiplayer which Microsoft popularized and eventually caused a financially troubled Sony (and soon Nintendo) to follow suit.
Hardware sales/market share isn't the sole factor for gauging success. Xbox sales jumped from 24m to 85m with X360. Playstation (home console) sales fell from 157m to 86m+ with PS3. Sony was bleeding money while Xbox was printing them. Of course a large part of that was thanks to Xbox Live. |
I don’t think the gaming division of MS was printing money.