15 Reasons why ps3 should be worried about its future :

1. Cheaper blue ray player than ps3 will be out soon

2. Cheaper combo player - bluray/hd dvd - will be out soon

3. VOD will be much accessible with the bandwidth increase, kicking out all these hd players

4. PS3 live is too far behind X360 one

5. PS3 has already cut its price twice in a year - think about the first ps3 fans who have bought it at full price... - When ps3 will cut its price again, Wii is gonna strike back this time

6. Former casual ps2 gamers is/will be moving to wii platform - and there are a lot

7. PS3 hardware has no future - no future reuse...

8. PS3 marketing strategy is a disaster

9. PS3 hardware linup is a disaster too : look at all those SKUs, look at that controller with sisaxis, no ps2 retrocompatibility for certain SKU,  etc.

10. PS3's sold lesser game than its concurrent : meaning less profit

11. PS3's games are all delayed : it's a fact

12. PS3's supposed blockbusters which have deceived : lair, heavenly sword, uncharted - look at the numbers

13. PS3 has exclusives : good for them cause Wii and X360 have too

14. Agressive concurrents : nintendo and microsoft....

15. PS2's dying, and with it its marketing/public image. PS3 will have to forge its own one.

Well its a really bad new year thread start . Seriously , people really expect the PS3 to flop this year ?

@ cayley96
thats exactly what i was thinking of lately

When I was in town I saw a 86 foot tower of PS3s being sold by black Rumanians.

I'll play along.

Wow! I guess the Sony fanboys weren't kidding when they said 2008 was the PS3's year!!!!!!!! Nintendomination at an end?

I don't want the PS3 to flop I want to do just well enough to cock block the 360 and vice versa so the Wii can excell even further.

I noticed it too. "I will stop trolling" should've been apart of alot of forum posters new years resolution.

@eugene 

I believe it only because for like two days the ps3 has been ahead of the wii & 360 on amazon.com. It could be because wii & 360 might be out of stock though.

15 Reasons why ps3 shouldn't be worried about its future :

1. It is one of the best (and certainly best value) Blu-Ray players available with better upscaling and superior audio to its counterpart, the 360.

2. HD-DVD will be discontinued in about 18 months. Expect Warner to announce Blu-ray exclusivity this quarter (the final nail).

3. VOD services will benefit the PS3 as it has by far the best streaming capabilities of any videogame console. Optical media will still dominate for at least 10 years.

4. PS3's Home service will offer greater functionality than Xbox Live, but will be paid for by advertising not the end user.

5. PS3 is still out of the mass market price range but will see a cut before xmas '08 that will see a massive sales increase.

6. PS2 fans attracted to stuff like the Eyetoy will likely defect to Nintendo, but casuals within the core VG demographic (males age 16-36) will still likely choose PS360 as their console of choice.

7. PS3 hardware is superior to its competition in almost every respect, and will likely be supported for the longest amount of time.

8. PS3 PR strategy could scarcely get any worse, although '07 was still an improvement over '06. Their long term strategy will start to pay off as blu-ray becomes more widespread.

9. Hardware variations have stimulated sales already, and the entry level 40gb SKU could still potentially have software BC, like the 360 (although your only option at the mo is to install linux with PS2emu, which isn't very good).

10. Sony have more in-house developers than Nintendo & Microsoft.

11. Most of the hot games that were supposed to be released in '07 were delayed, so '08 is looking to be a great lineup.

12. Only a fanboy would claim that original IPs like lair, heavenly sword or uncharted would be system sellers. Only a fool would deny that established multi-million selling franchise like FF, GT & MGS will be system sellers.

13. PS3 has exclusives : good for them cause Wii and X360 have too

14. Nintendo have separated themselves from the pack by offering something completely different. Microsoft is Sony's only direct competition in the market, and despite making significant gains (esp. in US) they will really have to pull something out of the bag to fend off sony in the next couple of years.

15. PS3 is the successor to the two most successful consoles ever released, one of which is still attracting new gamers at a healthy rate.


Sony have been criticised for slow sales, but their integrated strategy means that they could sell at the same rate for the next 4 years, and still make an extremely healthy profit. Frankly I don't think they have any cause for concern. The expansion and fragmentation of the market means all 3 parties will likely experience success this generation.

Well my wish for New years was that the ps3 destroys the wii in sales.