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About LinkBacksRead more.Sony has set itself a steep sales target figure for the PS3. Can it really surpass the sales record set by the Playstation 2?
Read more.Sony has set itself a steep sales target figure for the PS3. Can it really surpass the sales record set by the Playstation 2?
Hmmm, maybe, after some health price cuts it might be possible. On the other hand, we'll probably have new consoles from the much stronger competition within a few years. That could make it difficult.
Either way, Sony's got to be thankful for the ever-popular PS2. Its massive success is in my opinion one of the main reasons the PS3 didn't stumble at the first hurdle.
LOL you wish sony! The Xbox 360 has spread so widely already that it safely wears this generations crown.
Just like the First XBOX was always shadowed by the siompler yet cheaper and better available PS2.
PS3 is a slow burner. It seems to take developers longer to get to grips with the hardware; it has a Blu-Ray player which is slowly increasing in popularity as more people go HD; it has an upgradable hard drive, it has exlclusive games such as Gran Turismo 5 and Final Fantasy XIII not yet released and so on.
I'm not a massive Sony fan, I would like to own both PS3 and 360, but Sony seems to have a fairly strong position in the long term.
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Not really. The PS3 has sold more units in Europe than the xbox 360 and the less said about xbox 360 sales in Japan, the better.
http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/05/07/ps3...0_in_euro.html
Besides, the Wii has already shifted significantly more than both of them. Maybe Sony and Microsoft could release some games with mass market appeal to recitfy the situation, or just release another bunch of systems with slight hardware variations
Biscuit (22-07-2008)
Cheers for that article i had no idea this had happened.
Talking to a mate of mine who studies biology at manchester, he mentioned that a lot places have been buying them to process certain tasks because the proccessors in them are so damn powerful, its cheaper to use them than build the PC of eqivilent power.
Wii has won this generations console war IMO, mainly because it had something new rather than same ****, new graphics. It's almost in a different fight tbh.
The 360 is a great console, got one myself. Well worth the money and money is the main driving point for most people I'd bet. If PS3 and 360 had been the same price I might have gone for the PS3. Just from speaking to friends I think most people are the same. Just not many willing to pay the higher price for pretty much the same end result.
The lower the PS3 price goes, the more of a fight MS will have on it's hands. I know I'd probably buy one for $200
I don't think it was originally a matter of winning "the war" this time around for Nintendo or Microsoft.
The fact is that the PS2 ruled all, Nintendo was looking dead and buried and the original Xbox was ok but made little impact on the PS2.
The real battle this time around was for Nintendo and Microsoft to get firmly back in the game. To that end, I'd say they've both more than achieved that goal.
Sony no longer dominates, but, it's also still firmly in the game.
The trouble with the original Xbox was the price of the games. They were consistantly more than PS2 games and there were a lot less of them.
This time round Sony is having to play catch up with the 360 having been out for so long by the time the PS3 was launched. The lack of backward compatibility hasn't helped either.
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