You arn't going to last very long here...

he doesn't need to be calling people fanboys, but when you start a thread you should make an effort to actually post correct info.  The OP failed from the start.  When the OP fails then 99% of the time it's leads to the thread failing, often turning to flamebait.  Most of the posters in this thread probably spent twice the time as the OP making their posts.

yes. i agree. but i really dislike the generalizing that happens. toast isn't even a sony fan. and I can see this thread being quoted down the line as a "lol and all the sony fans thought the ps3 would sell 100 million" just like it happened with crazzymans ridiculous threads and leo-j's.

My money is on 100 mil life time. It is seling very similar to the PS1 and it did around 100 mil. With killer SW on the horizon (FF13, Verses, GOW3, U2, Last Gardian, Heavy Rain & GT5) and the new price / Slim people will change their tunes for the PS3's sales.

Another thing to note, the PS3 has realeased the Slim a year earlier than the PS2 did and 2 before PS1.

What cracks me up, tho is the haters saying 10 years is a joke. PS1= 10yrs. PS2 currently at 9yrs and still going strong! M$ has yet to achive anything near this with a console.

Gonna be funny watching the very envious M$ doing their best to out do them with that.

Can I buy pot from you?

What did the PS2 Slim cost when it first came out?

Perhaps so many people believe the Sony "10-year plan" for the PS3 is ridiculous not because it's impossible, but because it's very difficult to predict how long a particular platform will last.  Sony will stop selling the PS3 when it isn't a viable product anymore... no sooner and no later.  The 10-year guess is just that... a guess.

I didn't realize the Ps3 has been a viable product for the last 3 years.

I'm not sure why you say that.  Perhaps my definition of "viable" is different than yours.  To me, "viable", when referring to a console, means a platform that has sufficient developer and consumer interest to sell in reasonable numbers to support a market for that product.  This isn't true for a lot of other products, for example TVs.  You don't sell TVs below or at cost to sell another product or service.  Gaming consoles and their associated games, on the other hand follow the razor rule... give away the razor so you can sell razor blades.

So when I say the PS3 is viable, I mean it's still possible for Sony to sell PS3s and PS3 games and potentially make money.  But when sales of the PS3 drop WW to a tiny fraction of current sales, they will likely stop selling it.  This will probably happen to the PS2 in the near future, say within a year or two.

The key thing is that Sony does not have a crystal ball--they can't know for certain how long it will be before making and selling PS3s and PS3 games will no longer make sense from a business perspective--and they can't afford to prop up a technology long after it should be retired.  That's a good business plan for failure.