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Isn't it?

I thought it was...

What Nintendo proves with the Wii is that Sony don't know squat in comparison. They made more money in one year than Sony did with the Playstation 1/2 combined. What does that prove? It proves that Sony doesn't know what to do with a winning hand so how can anyone assume they know how to turn around a losing one? I don't need to wait 2 years for anything. If they come in at the end of financial year 2010 with over $1B in losses again then what have they proved to us exactly?

Just for the record Gran Turismo is a bigger franchise than Halo. This gen Sony have made lots of new ip's rather churning out sequels. Of those new ip's Uncharted 2 looks like it could be a 5million seller. LBP has massive legs and looks like another premier franchise. And lot of 1, 2 million sellers. And established ip's which will start hitting next year. MS put all there efforts into 1 or 2 titles with huge marketing campaigns etc while Sony instead go for the quantity/diversity as there killer.

But i feel Sony drop the IP or forget about it when its the time to reap benefit from it.. Nintendo is having Mario, or Mario Brothers in every other IP n they are reaping huge sales.. no matter what one say u they are getting lot of profit due to this. 

I was seeing Sony's IP list somewhere and i was astonished that they had so many IPs n quite a few of them are great but they just dumped them. Thats not good.. If MS is getting 10M from a HALO IP every year than its quite a lot of profit for them too.. 

Sony have always been different to Nintendo and MS in how they handle there 1st party. They've never gone out and put huge resources behind single games to create totem pole franchises. Every gen theres alway been new franchises and old ones discarded.  Next fall we'l likely have 7 or 8 million+ sellers from Sony but none that have megaton sales. I think thats there business model having quality exclusives in most genres rather than putting everything behing one or two franchises to sell consoles. I would say it's a very successful business strategy because why else would the PS3 be selling so well when 95% of all excusives are Sony ip's?. I think i can remember an interview a while back where they said this was the case. Heavy rain designed to hit a bit of a new market, modnation racers to, LBP also Eyepet aswell etc. When you look at it it's striking how many Sony games arent mainstream hardcore titles.

What Nintendo proves with the Wii is that Sony don't know squat in comparison. They made more money in one year than Sony did with the Playstation 1/2 combined. What does that prove? It proves that Sony doesn't know what to do with a winning hand so how can anyone assume they know how to turn around a losing one? I don't need to wait 2 years for anything. If they come in at the end of financial year 2010 with over $1B in losses again then what have they proved to us exactly?

"Sony have always been different to Nintendo and MS in how they handle there 1st party. They've never gone out and put huge resources behind single games to create totem pole franchises."

They described God of War 3 as the most expensive game to code to date for them and its been stated by a few developers that they spend more money per 2nd party title than most third party publishers.

"Next fall we'l likely have 7 or 8 million+ sellers from Sony but none that have megaton sales. I think thats there business model having quality exclusives in most genres rather than putting everything behing one or two franchises to sell consoles. I would say it's a very successful business strategy because why else would the PS3 be selling so well when 95% of all excusives are Sony ip's?."

The PS3 is probably selling well because its the sequel to the highest selling home console of all time. Its selling well in spite of the fact that their exclusive games haven't gone on to become mega sellers and not because they produce a range of different I.P. A game which doesn't sell huge quantities cannot sell huge quantities of consoles either and there are no true big system selling titles which have sold less than 4M copies and there are none which match Nintendos stable which have sold under 7M copies.

Blue- Wut? Where did they say that? Not attacking, I just want to know...

Blue: Sorry it was something I saw linked through at www.beyond3d.com quoting from a Sony executive. Its something I regret not saving a bookmark for.

Red: They had a lot of software development sent their way exclusively at the start of the generation on the assumption that the PS3 would win. The fact that the library exists is in part because of the PS2 and PS1. Furthermore consumers all made the assumption that certain titles would be exclusive or at least release on the PS3. Look at FFXIII sales in Japan, a majority of their userbase bought a PS3 in part because of an assumption that FFXIII would be released for that system.