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Grimes on 01 November 2010
jarrod said:

This begs the question... can one ever legitimately claim 1st place if their platform never actually makes money in the end?


Yeah, it's called a pyrrhic victory.



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jarrod on 01 November 2010
daveJ said:

um - fact is

OGW3 was the best selling software title in march

this gen is long not over, to say that the ps3 has sold the worse [ouch]

that is I give fact and jarrod conters with BS.

oh well I might have to stick his prediction in my sig that GOW will not sell the most tittles in mar' 2010 NPD

lol.  Looks like I have a fan. 

What are "OGW3" and "tittles"?  The latter sounds illegal?



reidlosdog on 01 November 2010
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efestione on 01 November 2010
Grimes said:
jarrod said:

This begs the question... can one ever legitimately claim 1st place if their platform never actually makes money in the end?


Yeah, it's called a pyrrhic victory.


Since it isn't even a victory...how should we call it? Pyrrich defeat?



Beuli2 on 01 November 2010
efestione said:
Grimes said:
jarrod said:

This begs the question... can one ever legitimately claim 1st place if their platform never actually makes money in the end?


Yeah, it's called a pyrrhic victory.


Since it isn't even a victory...how should we call it? Pyrrich defeat?

Pretty much.



Above: still the best game of the year.

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efestione on 01 November 2010
Beuli2 said:
efestione said:
Grimes said:
jarrod said:

This begs the question... can one ever legitimately claim 1st place if their platform never actually makes money in the end?


Yeah, it's called a pyrrhic victory.


Since it isn't even a victory...how should we call it? Pyrrich defeat?

Pretty much.

This, together with the apple/sony rumor makes me feel  so sad...although current playstation hardware is'nt absolutely a failure, it is obvious that the leadership they used to have is far faraway....this remind me of what i felt for nintendo during the gamecube era. Hope sony will redeem one day.



MARCUSDJACKSON on 01 November 2010

well like i said in another thread resently; its possible! if it does it won't be by much and if it doesn't it won't be behind by much, but it will more likely happen a yr or 2 after this gen ends.



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AnthonyW86 on 01 November 2010
Grimes said:
AnthonyW86 said:

That must be about the silliest thing i've ever heard. You know a company profits most on a console later on in it's life-cycle? You know that any new system that will be released is likely to be outsold by it's predecessor in the first two years? Not only that the old system will sell more software in the first two years aswell, and keep bringing in money. And what is the start of the next generation exactly? When Nintendo launches their next console witch is barely more powerfull than the current PS3 and X360?

A system is dead when it stops bringing in money and isn't produced anymore, so no the Wii doesn't win. More importantly, PS3 may even beat the Wii where it really counts, in the number of software sold.

Nintendo made billions of dollars in the Wii's initial years, while Sony's PS division lost billions of dollars even with all the PS2's profits.

I'm not saying the PS3 will bring in more money than the Wii did, it won't. But that's the point, Sony invested so much money in the PS3 they will want to keep it on the market as long as possible to try and recoup as much as they can, again one more reason PS3 will keep on selling for longer than the Wii.



jarrod on 01 November 2010
AnthonyW86 said:
Grimes said:
AnthonyW86 said:

That must be about the silliest thing i've ever heard. You know a company profits most on a console later on in it's life-cycle? You know that any new system that will be released is likely to be outsold by it's predecessor in the first two years? Not only that the old system will sell more software in the first two years aswell, and keep bringing in money. And what is the start of the next generation exactly? When Nintendo launches their next console witch is barely more powerfull than the current PS3 and X360?

A system is dead when it stops bringing in money and isn't produced anymore, so no the Wii doesn't win. More importantly, PS3 may even beat the Wii where it really counts, in the number of software sold.

Nintendo made billions of dollars in the Wii's initial years, while Sony's PS division lost billions of dollars even with all the PS2's profits.

I'm not saying the PS3 will bring in more money than the Wii did, it won't. But that's the point, Sony invested so much money in the PS3 they will want to keep it on the market as long as possible to try and recoup as much as they can, again one more reason PS3 will keep on selling for longer than the Wii.

Forget more money, will PS3 bring in any money?  With it's losses already exceeding all profits in SCE's reported history, it's going to be a tall order...



dtewi on 01 November 2010

I give up. I just bloody give up. Some of you are actually paralleling the PS1 and PS2 with the PS3, stating the fact they continued to sell well into the new gen. The fact is the PS3 is nothing like the PS1 or PS2's success.

So I just give up. I'm going to revive this thread in a few years and then show you how damn stupid this was.



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