The PS1 came out in 1994. The market's bigger now.

The PS3 is up against much stronger competition than the original Playstation had, and also the market is much larger.

lol I love you dude, no homo, took the words right out of my mouth, but wait, someone will put the doom in here I hope XD

The PS3 also does a lot more to push the market forward than the original PS1 did, which caused some additional challenges. For example its general processing power is years after release still far beyond high spec PCs, this was not the case for the original PS1 and its storage media was picked (Blu-Ray) amid a big format war with Toshiba's HD DVD, which caused a lot of extra propaganda from especially the US press and fanboys.

Important is to note with high capacity Blu-Ray, the amazingly powerful Cell processor and many costly extras like large default harddrives, built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a good HDMI standard, etc all out of the box resulted in relatively high entry costs. Which is a challenge.

Also with HDTV penetration still in the process of gaining huge amounts of market share replacing SDTVs worldwide, this introduced an extra challenge. With the PS3's high specs like support for top HDTVs and 7.1 surround sound audio setups (and soon even 120 FPS stereoscopic 3D), some people will sit on the sidelines until they are able to upgrade their home cinema setup. What percentage of kids have a surround audio set, HDTV as well as internet access in their bedroom to get the most out of a PS3 setup? I think, this also contributed to the PS3's relatively mature gaming audience.

good to hear, you should definitely snag it for wii tho over ps2, just cus it actually uses motion in a great way to build immersion i found, but yeh what a game.

2009 was the best year for the PS3 (Fiscal year still got a whole quarter) but it interesting because with the exception of Ratchet and Clank there were no well known franchises released this year for the PS3... Uncharted 1 was pretty well known but the popularity came with Uncharted 2 really..

Killzone 1 on the PS2 was considering awful I don't think anyone can count this one
Then you got Infamous which is a new IP and Demon's Souls which is a new IP also and did amazingly well

You got FFXIII but only in Japan

2010 we will see the biggest Playstation franchise - Gran Turismo 5 with Final Fantasy XIII (You know what consoles will it move and on what consoles it gonna sell), Final Fantasy XIV and the possibly Final Fantasy Versus XIII in late 2010 in Japan
You got God of War 3 of course it not GT but it will be interesting I think it gonna surprise people both on the software sales and moving consoles

Then you got rumors on revived franchises like Twisted Metal (not confirmed but almost 100% sure at this point)

Interesting. How long after the PS1 did it take for the ps2 to come out. Just wondering.

hahahhahahhahahahhhah these always make me laugh. when the day comes its announced these forums will go mad lol

6 years

hmmm

something is off about that comparison.

The PS3 simply is not selling at as fast a rate. I don;t think the PS3 will do as good this year as the PSone did.

Still, great to hear Sony is out of the red. PS3's an awesome system. Its awesome that the market can handle three systems, each selling really great.