I dont care if its considered a success or not. Why would I? As long as they provide me with games i want to play, i dont give a *humpf* about how successful it is or not. You dont buy a car just because it sells good, you buy the one that suits your needs. You dont buy a computer because alot of people already have it, you buy the one that suits your needs. You dont buy a Wii because everyone else got on, you buy the console that suits your needs.

But as for sales, id rather have them lower the price on games to up the installbase rather than a hw price drop which dosent concern me. Imagine if you could buy 2 games for the price of one compared to other consoles, id go for that one, providing it had the games i wanted.

Its not like i can help sony sell the desired amout of consoles sold. No matter how much "i care" about the overall success, its not going to help sony run their business. So id rather focus on what i care about, and that is games and hw features. Add more for value and bring more great games and im happy. No need for a price cut imo.

Im with you on that one.

Because i dont see Activision picking up the tab of Sonys losses if they were to drop the price atm. Imagine if Sony went like;

- "Hell.. fuck it. We'll do what all these 3rdies wants."
- "Ooops, we ended up in the red and are screwed. Now we have to kill of whatever thousands of employees we have and sell our company. But wait... our good friends Activision will help us out!"
- "Hello Activision, could you give us a hand?"
- "Activision?"
- "Aaactivisiiiooon?"
- "Hello?"
- "Is there anybody out there?"

*click*

The Activison thing is an empty threat. CoD4 sold over 4 million and WaW is at about 3.3 million now. Do you really think they'll pass on putting the next Call of Duty games on the PS3 when they sell this well? Even guitar hero sells a shitload and it's the same game every year with new songs.

Yeah PS3 sales suck ass and it should be market leader, but come on it launched at $499/$599. Name 1 other console that launched at this high of a price and was able to sell 20 million units, hell even 10 million units!!

This isnt the year of the PS3. This is the year of Uncharted 2.

So gametrailers was full of it when they said 2008 was the year of ps3? even if its just an opinion?....poor gametrailers cant even express their opinion.

I'm trying to pick out which part of this post makes sense. Multiplat rule of what now? Wii only makes more money then 360 and Wii, or PS3 and Wii?...

So far, I'm having no luck here deciphering this.

I have seen a decent percentage of the time, a "Year of the _____" (with the _____ being the system in discussion) resulting in a dump of every title that MIGHT come out for the said system, as an exclusive, being listed by fanboys.  If they want to list a muti-system title, it will have some inane reason why the version for the console in question would be superior.  I had learned of far too many 2010 and beyond PS3 release titles by fanboys of that system, during the "Year of the PS3" chat.

Anyone who fails to understand the nature of the videogame business won't grasp the concept that no company remains on top forever.  For a large number of reasons, the top dog eventually does get knocked off and supplanted.  Sony is showing increasing signs of a leader who is no longer on top.  It is the nature of the business.  It is wise for people to, at best, remember companies fondly, but don't get religious about it.  And yes, I do have the Atari logo as my avatar.  It should serve as a reminder for people out there as to the nature of the business.

You have slipped into Sega territory.  I remember that being said about Sega, and what had happened as a result:

1. A third-party software maker doesn't nearly get the level of attention that a console maker makes in the business.  Their titles are more apt to get lost in the shuffle, particularly if they were a former console maker.

2. There ends up being a hidden lust for exclusives console makers make, that owners of other consoles want on their own.  They think going third-party would allow them to get great titles on their system that were on the other console.  Nevermind that games were specifically coded for a given platform and would take a hit.  Multiple Dreamcast games, for example, were a disaster when they jumped onto the PS2.  One notable one was Crazy Taxi.

ummm you said anyone who says year of ps3 until 2010 is full of it no?