i think this article does a good job of summing up the myth of sony's PR scheme of the ten year ps3 cycle. they basically were arrogant/overly confident from the beginning and assumed that after a couple years their sales would pick up dramatically and they would be leading this generation and then start dominating it, which is the only way a system is gonna last more than one year beyond the launch of that company's next system, let alone lasting for a full ten years. psx and ps2 were both that system. this gen the only console that hits that criteria or even comes remotely close to it is the wii, which probably will sell for 9 or 10 years. sony has to keep up this PR scheme though because its the only thing for them to say right now when they are third in both hw and sw sales by a lot and their situation isn't improving at all despite the fact that several of their big hyped games for this generation have come out now (i think all that's left now is god of war 3, gt5, and ffXIII which won't have nearly the impact they are hoping for since its for 360 too).
also saying the technology is ahead of its time i don't think really makes sense. as far as graphics go, the 360 and ps3 are graphically closer than any two other systems ever. i can't tell a lick of difference overall between ports for those two consoles (sometimes the 360 version looks barely better, sometimes the ps3 version looks barely better although usually the only difference is slightly different lighting and coloring). and the very best graphics on the ps3 (mgs4) are ever so slightly better than the very best graphics on 360. so slight that it makes no difference at all.
end of '08 predictions: wii - 43 million, 360 - 25 million, ps3 - 20 million
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