Is PS3 REALLY selling that badly?

[friedtofu]

TheBigFatJ said:

friedtofu said:

People are all worked up over 1st, 2nd, 3rd place. I dont think there will be any "losers" this console war. I read a prediction somewhere that each console will probably own at least 30% market share each by the time all this smoke clears. Doesnt seem unreasonable.

Even though the Gamecube and Xbox(1) came in 3rd and 2nd place I dont think either one would be considered a failure even though Sony flat out dominated last time.

From reading alot of posts here it seems like people just enjoy watching giants tumble from the top, and people who supported those giants love to rally them back to the top again. Why? Just play your games and enjoy them.
I guess I never understood fanboyism.

You left a whole bunch of spaces at the bottom of your post. If everyone was so special that they did that, the forums would be difficult to read, get my drift?

How do we define losers? Since this is business and everyone's goal this generation is to make lots of money, the only winners can be those who generate a profit. And the biggest winner will be the one who generates the most profit. Right now, Nintendo looks to have that locked up.

Sony and Microsoft are currently each billions in debt due to their respective consoles. Microsoft is carrying the debt of the original Xbox as well, as they're supposed to be profitable. Both companies have substatial challanges in front of them before they can stop losing money on a quarterly basis, and they'd both have to be making a lot of money for many consecutive quarters before they can be profitable. Ultimately, anyone who finishes this generation in the red will be a loser by default since they will have failed to attain their #1 goal.

There will be secondary ways to define who won -- who has the most or gained the most market share, for example. However, one way *not* to measure anything is in terms of revenue, since profits are the goal and not revenue. So if someone is saying, "company X generated Y revenue", they may be trying to draw attention away from monetary losses or marketshare losses.

  

Aww Im glad you think Im special.

I "get your drift" but I dont really care (haha, people actually still say that? lol). Too bad that spaces bother you. Oh well.

Im not sure why the spaces are appearing. Im not adding them, and they are not in my preview window. (Using Iceweasel 2.0.0.4 on Debian Etch) 

I agree there is a giant financial machine powering this whole console war, its driven by dollars and not game reviews. In my post my definition of loser was not a financial one, but one that Im sure most gamers  (not just the ones who visit this board to track numbers) would probably relate to as "the console that isnt dominating". I just think that in that respect, this war will be much closer, regardless of revenue.