| MikeB said: @ starcraft This may not be the thread for it, but that is a very misinformed statement. Thats not how console generations work. Generally in this industry, success breeds success, failure or mediocre achievement does not breed success. The PS3 is way higher specced and ahead of its time than the original Playstation (and PS2) was for its time of release and thus more highly priced (twice as highly priced for the US at launch than the PSX). Despite this the PS3 sold nearly triple the amount by the end of fiscal year 2007 than Sony sold Playstations by the 31th of March 1996. What you call to be a mediocre performance is a much better performance than your much praised 360 did at a much lower entry pricing and nearly all big sequels already out on the market and a complete lack of support for the original XBox (compared to the still alive and supported PS2). I feel confident to say your precious 360 will end up being a distant third for this generation. We'll see who's right and who's wrong when Final Fantasy XIII and a slimline PS3 launches.  |
This has become something of the classic Sony fan response to criticism of the PS3. Deviate from the point by attacking the Xbox 360. There wasn't a single mention of the Wii in your response, despite its success being the main point of my post.
You continue to laud the technical specifications of the PS3 as a reason for its guarenteed long-term success, despite the fact its been shown to be similar in capabilities to the Xbox 360, and the fact that previous generations (not to mention the handheld market) have shown us technical specifications rarely play a part in determining sales. Given you're tendency to misrepresent launch periods and sales, I'll withhold comment on your PSX point unless you're willing to specify which regions you are referring to specifically. But I will point out that you once again ignored the fact that a far more relevant comparison would have been to place the PS3 against its current competitor, the Wii, which has outsold it by 3 to 1 so far in Japan. This despite the immense strength of Sony's brandname built up over the course of 12 years of console industry dominance.
Ignoring the clear evidence that the Xbox 360 has stolen masses of PS2 customers, and will continue to do so for at least 2-3 years to come, we'll deal with you're fundamental failure to grasp the tendencies of the industry to lean towards an established victor.
The PS3 is losing exclusives to multiplatform status, and losing games entirely to Microsoft moneyhatting or Wii-dominance. Its now accepted wisdom that all third party games that are not bought will either go to the Wii, the Xbox 360+PS3 combo, or the PC+Xbox 360 combo. This, combined with the expense of the PS3 and the blow Sony's prestige has taken over the last eighteen months has proven sufficient to ensure that the PS3 will never approach the Wii's sales, and will never gain a lead over the Xbox 360 sufficient enough to warrant PS3-exclusive third party titles on economic viability grounds. The same factors combine to ensure that the PS3 will not have nearly the tail that the PS2 has. The PS2's tail has little to do with the fact its a Sony console, and much to do with the fact it is inexpensive and received masses of exclusive third party support. The PS3 will never be as cheap as either the Wii or Xbox 360, and will never have as many third party exclusives as either of those two consoles. It won't have as many as the Wii because of its incredible sales and it wont have as many as the Xbox 360 because of its one year head start.
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