I think he was being sarcastic.

Anyhow, the NGP and PS4 will be the first consoles to launch under Kaz Hirai (or is he being promoted?) rather than Ken Kutaragi.  It will be interesting to see how that plays out.  Kaz Hirai did save the Playstation brand this generation, and I think something needs to be said about that.  He had a lot on his shoulders when he had to take over the sinking ship from Ken Kutaragi.  I'm not sure how anyone could have done it any better.

Next generation, two things need to happen for Sony.  They need to figure out how not to have such a huge R&D and losses at the beginning.  Also, the need to figure out how to recover their brand image in America.  America is still where their brand image is largely tainted.  There is still alot of resident hate in America toward the Playstation brand and lots of loyalty to the Xbox brand.  In order for Sony to get the American support again, they are going to have to tear people away from Xbox Live.  Single player exclusives don't sell to the American crowd anymore.

Actually sorry to point the obvious, but unless your saying that millions of people are spending money on Move and bought no games for it in 6 months, then it's simple to see that Move is actually in ( high probabilty ) no more than 4 million homes. 

The SW sales are so astronomically low, that noone can say with a straight face Move userbase is anywhere near 8 million.

The Wii itself is what flirted with 50% market share, it reached 49% at one point. It was running on around 60% market share per annum in its early years. It's just a pity Nintendo couldn't output enough games to support it on it's own in the end.

based on gaming sells alone, there's probably 1 million move userbase, to be fair. But I never said the userbase of Move is 8 million, I simply said don't know the userbase. But, i know Sony sold 8 million of those babies in 6 months. 

What's fascinating is its MS fans arguing about userbase, none of you have a problem with ioi putting 50 million 360 in front page when it's very obvious the userbase is closer to 35-40 million. But I really don't care because 50 million people bought it. That also goes to the PS2, PS3 as well. The Wii might be the only console with a closer userbase to its sales total. 

A good point for Move would be that we have no idea how much SW they're moving at all, due to all the Move compatible games that were released before Move.

Games like RE5 and Heavy Rain for example...

And then you have KZ3/LBP2 out recently...

And then you have PS3 SW being undertracked by like 70 Million...

So erm... Yeah

Of course you are, it only takes common sense. But let's pretend all 8 million are sold and they sold to 1 person each, makes it sound more successful.

LOL userbase is closer to 35/40 mill ... are you kidding ..

That stupid equation aside, it's not about what's active, it's about how many consumers have bought the product.

How many consumers have bought 2,3, 4 360's, how many consumers have had the 360's replaced by MS, how many have ugraded to the new slim version. You see, the same way you can put equation into Move, we can do the same for other consoles. The simple fact is, you don't know  the actual userbase of Move. 

Very thin veiled excuses psrock.

Ioi seems to be tracking Move very well, he correctly predicted 7/8 mill shipped around March 1st, he estimates about a 4/5 mill userbase. So I'm going with that. after it's better than "oh, we just don't know"

But he himself have said it's pure speculation though. But you seems to stick to it like glue. And there were many people in that article who though ioi numbers were too high and believed Sony hadnt even sold out their first shipment. Let me go check how much you guys agreed with ioi back then.