Sony Boss: Fortnite On PlayStation 4 Is The Best Experience For Users

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forevercloud3000 said:

Azzanation said:

Are you going to forget that Sony had to butcher the PS3 to put it back on the map and to compete? That heavy price tag, there marketing approach, everything.

Also lets not forget the PS3 lost more money in the gaming industry than any other console in history, losing around $5b. There arrogance cost them.

Sony needed to fix it or PS was going to die as a brand. Luckily for Sony they made the right moves to compete. They only took over the 360 when MS stopped trying. Sony this gen were extremely lucky that both Nintendo and Xbox tripped over the starting line. Next gen might be alittle different.

Being confident is one thing, being confident fuelled by arrogance is another and there confident in all the wrong ways.

If the PS3 had sold like 40million total or something than maybe such a sharp decrease could be considered punishment for their over confidence.....but it sold 80+million. PS360Wii era is the closest any Gen has had all competitors to a Tie. As far as the profitability of that Gen, So much of that can be attributed to things that would have likely happened regardless of what they said. They had no say on whether the Yen was going to start being heavily devalued or not. They didn't have a say about several natural disasters devastating construction of vital parts. They also didn't know the market was going to be derailed by the allure of "Motion Gaming" for several years. And Microsoft would have still paid millions to various Developers to break many a exclusivity contract with Sony. 

There is no vast decrease in PS Brand Sales that shows a drastic fall in popularity that couldn't be as easily attributed to these external factors.

Only over the long run, sales were actually below 360 sales until 2008. Only in 2009 the PS3 took off with the much cheaper Slim model ans started eating away the lead of the 360. Still, while it did sell over 80M in the end, after 50 Months ( 4 years plus launch months) it was only sitting at 43M, not much better than the XBO is doing which got derided and punished for it's anti consumer practices and plans with the XBO.

What saved Sony last gen was that they quickly backtracked and slashed the pricetag several times and the fact that the Playstation brand sells much better outside of English-speaking countries. This allowed it's comeback after a disastrous 2-year false start.