Alby_da_Wolf on 17 June 2009
| CAL4M1TY said: I see the youth development at the Sony defence force is doing well, given the reaction to OP's comments in this thread. "B-b-b-but the 360 is WAY cheaper and only outsells it a little". Fact is, it is still outselling it, regardless of anything else (do you see a PS3 price cut anytime soon?). Anyway, on topic. I don't agree with OP. The PS3 is getting outsold at the moment, yes, but the point of the PS3 now (imo) is to turn a profit even if it means coming in last place. The PS3 development of the CELL and Blu-ray's development (becoming a cheaper media storage) will mean the PS4 (hopefully) will be cheaper, making it a much more competitive console. Selling 100,000 worldwide a week is not impressive, but there's no signs that it'll dramatically plummet anytime soon (it'll probably increase with the games coming and the possible PS3 Slim). I don't think many reasonable people would call the gamecube a massive failure, when it was a very financially successful console. I think the PS3 could do something like that, but I think (and it'll probably have to) obviously the PS3 will have much more impressive lifetime sales numbers. Also, considering the growth in blu-ray penetration over the last year and a bit, I would hardly call it niche thing. So in terms of being a failure in the competitive console market, looks likely at THIS CURRENT point in time. As for being a failure as a business product, we'll see, I'm going to say it won't be though, especially when you factor in what it's development will mean for future playstation consoles. |
Although I suspect most ambitious MS executives like Ballmer aren't happy with what I highlighted in green (but I guess too that most pragmatic ones are more than happy with XB360 beating PS3), I quite agree with the rest of what you wrote.
