Do a bit of research before you post a thread like this and you might improve your credibility. I'm sure you were quite excited to think you could claim that PS3 is struggling against GC sales. Unfortunately you are now officially wrong. This http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=GC&reg1=Japan&cons2=PS3&reg2=Japan&cons3=N64&reg3=Japan&weeks=180 shows that PS3 is now well clear of the GC. This graph also shows that come the end of this holidays PS3 is likely to move above the N64 sales since launch curve. So to claim there is a struggle against the sales of these consoles is only an historical truth for the GC and soon will be for the N64. It now remains to be seen whether it can reach the Saturn, which it has a 2 million gap to make up. Provided PS3 sells in Japan for at least another 2 years it should move ahead of the Saturn by a reasonable margin.

So by your own post the PS3 will be "somewhat of a hit". Only really against it's own direct predecessors is PS3 sales any kind of disappointment.

Profitability on the other hand is an absolute disappointment, because from a hardware perspective PS3 will make a net loss over the whole generation, which will be a first for Sony, and if they're smart about it should be a last.

@ Serious_frusting
Financially FPS games do better on the 360. If you need a recent example look at Borderlands.

what he also dont understand is that the GC, N64, SAT, DC were all almost given away by the end of the short life time in Japan. The PS3 is still the price of like what most consoles launch at lmao.

I think that says good things for its future and future profits.

the original xbox has taken huge losses and to my knowledge ps3 has alrdy over taken it's LTD so.....

When the OP failed right on his face, he had to come up with a new excuse.

Now, CGI, did you know the PS3 sold 600k in the Slim first week, and has maintained a 240k plus sales each week  ww since then? Amazing right.

Uhhh... Sony feels its best to put it there?

I'm not sure what you're looking for me to say.

Oh sorry but when did FPS become the only genre? What about

RPG

Fighters

Platformers

3rd Person Shooters

any genre that sell Well in EU or Japan?

New excuse? Read my first post. I mention they're losing billions in the process. And that's the only way they can manage to meet the same numbers as past consoles.

Will you be there with us to celebrate the PS3 reaching 30 million this year?  that's more losses......

I don't even know why we're debating this. I'm not denying the PS3 has solid software sales. I'd be the first one to tell you that.

Unfortunately, that isn't going to cover the blackhole of money Sony created.