No, before Sony stops making consoles, Nintendo and Microsoft would be long gone.

I highly doubt that, considering the current state of all three companies, along with the fact that Sony, this very generation, put the interests of its movie business ahead of its gaming division.

for at least one more year? you think it would have sold 9 million in one year, you really are stupid i thought this thread was a joke to make a fanboy battle, but you genuinly belive this is the ps3's last console, in the words of buzz lightyear "you sad sad little man "you can say what you want but that didnt happen did it, what hapend was it sold 24 million over 5 years and failed no ifs or buts, it failed. dont bother responding I wont rise to you anymore

Only if the world ends in 2010.

Also, imho, the Xbox 1 was a pretty significant success. It was a completely new brand on the market and managed to beat the Gamecube from Nintendo, a long time market vet, and paved the way for the 360.

It also gave us games like Halo and KoToR which are now part of the gaming culture. Those games might have been made anyway, but without MS, maybe they wouldn't.

Either way, for a rookie console, frankly the Xbox was a significant success. It introduced the brand name and gained significant recognition for its successor worldwide. It also taught Microsoft enough about the industry to be where they are at today. In the big 3.

Whats so insulting about knowing Sony thought more about hardware specs than gaming, just like Microsoft did their first time around? The major difference between the Xbox and the PS3 was the fact that Sony already had a major fanbase which still exists during the PS3 era (which the Xbox didn't have during the first go), and they managed to hold onto a few more third party groups such as Konami and Sucker Punch.

When I say it was a failure, i mean so in the profit making sense, which is what companies are looking to make.

and I'm going to have to go with Sephiroth on this one, he's probably right.

Oh, I see. So, the PS3 is one of the largest failures in gaming history then, by those standard, and every Nintendo console has been a resounding success and indeed the only consistant success in the gaming industry.

The original Xbox was meant to introduce the brand. It was always going to lose money. It probably lost a little more than it should have due to a few poor business decisions, but nothing approaching the poor business decisions Sony has made this gen.

It's fine to call the original Xbox a failure, but by those strict standards, if the PS3 started selling like crack tomorrow, it could never dig itself out of the hole its in, because you would be comparing it to its predecessor, or strictly from a profit standpoint.

As for Sephiroth, lol, I didn't read his post, I just read someone claim that the original Xbox was a "failure" and it really wasn't.

Microsoft stopped making the origional xbox in 2004 thats 3 years, so I don't know where you got 5 years from.

The origional xbox was on store shelves for a little over 3 years if you average it out that is 8 million systems per year for 3 years, therefore 24 million sold, so it wouldn't be impossible for xbox to sell 9 million more in a year if given the chance.

i doubt it if you look at the gamecube last gen it was also in third and like ps3 but look at ninty now its first so i really don't think sony will give up so soon