Lawlight said:
walsufnir said:
Lawlight said:
walsufnir said:
Lawlight said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Lawlight said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Sony managed an impressive turnaround with PS3, but it pales in comparison to the renaissance Nintendo achieved with Wii.
Honestly, the two scenarios aren't really close. PS3 endured a rocky launch and then improved greatly, but Nintendo moved from last place to first place with one of the most revolutionary, disruptive, financially successful consoles of all time.
Even if we're talking about a single console generation, Sony hasn't "won" anything. It's still sitting in third place. I'm not saying it deserves to be in third -- it doesn't -- but it IS there. If a basketball team had a 13-0 run to end the game, but still lost 78-75, it wouldn't be called a comeback, would it?
Really the only way to argue this is to cite software, but even that would be a losing argument. The early PS3 games might not be as impressive as the later ones, but there were some gems: Resistance, Folklore, Heavenly Sword, etc. |
Well, the turnaround is a fluke, basically. It just so happened that non-gamers latched on to the novelty. No different from the tamagotchi.
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I'm confused by your post. Are you refuting my point? Or are you taking a pot shot at Nintendo? Or both? Or neither?
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Which point? The point where you assume that the race is over? As you say, the one with the most points win and we don't know the final score yet.
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Then tell us when you think the race is over. When PS3 sold enough? :) This is the thing most argue about: when is the "race" over? Nintendo already quit race. So for them race is already over. Usually Sony sells their consoles longer than others so it's somehow shifted.
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Well, the race is over when there is no possibility of any change in the ranking. And Nintendo forfeiting doesn't mean the race is over.
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Thanks for your opinion to this.
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That's not an opinion. It's a fact that the one who finishes with the most units sold wins - just like the football team which finishes with the most points wins.
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While I do agree that if the ps3 lasts another 10 years, and finally eclipses the wii, that it will have "sold" more, but I don't agree that it will have "won." Winning a console war has to do more with profits than it does with units sold. Selling Consoles are a business, and as a business it's important to make profits, and even though it is likely that in 5 years the ps3 will be done with the console race and NOT pass the wii, even if it does, the fact that it has yet to post a profit in the past 6 years without selling assets, proves that the ps3 came in last this gen. Nintendo made a killing with the wii, every unit sold gave them a huge profit, and as of right now they sold by far the most software and hardware. The 360 came in 2nd, and although the ps3 will likely pass the 360 soon, the fact remains that the 360 made more money with their console than the ps3, in fact, it's likely that even if the ps3 sells another 20-25 million units, it still will not have made as much of a profit as the 360.
Again, the console wars are about profit, not just selling the most amount of consoles.
