The Playstation 3 launch frenzy has died down and after a long drought without any mega hit games available it seems the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii are pulling away in the next generation console race. It’s not like Sony isn’t trying to get their fat, black, blu-ray powered, cancer curing super computers out their doors. They have tried numerous promotions like giving away free blu-ray movies, they have tried slashing the price…twice, one pre E3 PS3 price slash and other PS3 price slash is happening now in Japan and Europe, heck they have even bundled games with certain systems. So why isn’t the Ps3 selling?
Playstation 3
I must admit that the PS3 is attractive (except the price tag) and I can see myself buying one soon especially after having such a good time playing Heavenly Sword and the demo for Folklore at a local gaming arcade, I will not even talk about my uncontrollable drooling whenever I watch new footage of Gran Turismo HD. I’m still working on t he HD TV first though, makes no sense I go pick up a PS3 or Xbox 360 without going fully Hi Def!
Sales Figures
Microsoft has sold close to 12 million Xbox 360’s and Nintendo is closing in on that Magical 10 million Wii mark, How many PS3s do you think Sony has sold?
6.5 million.
aah yes, I don’t mind the long comments at all, I like to see engaging comments.
Volts comments are mine as well, Nintendo lost market share but their profits never stopped growing because th gaming market was always growing
It’s ironic. About two years ago I was in a Corporate Strategy class in my uni and I had a group project on sony (SCE) vs. nintendo in the game console industry. This was a huge project and we had to do a lot of research. In the end we presented the case that Nintendo was basically doomed and suggested they go the way of Sega and only make games for other consoles (supposedly many companies lose money on the consoles and make it up on the games anyway).
At the time Sony had over 70% of the console market! Nintendo only had 17% with their cube and they were being gained on by Microsoft @ 10%.
What was worse, the PSP was coming out to rival Nintendo even in the handheld market. Things did not look go in the least.
Fast forward to the Wii and
My my how the tables have turned!
Crazy isn’t it?
@tori: People generally made that "recommendation" for Nintendo while whining on the internet as though Nintendo’s existence was threatening to them. I’m actually shocked that you came to the conclusion that Nintendo should have stopped making hardware especially with your research–throughout the last generation, Nintendo was the _only_ hardware maker that _consistently_ made any profit. Just making games is ridiculous when your console makes you a lot of money. Nintendo never has been doomed, contrary to what was popular belief.
Business is about more than market share. If you want a good example, consider Apple, Inc. I bet you would have told them to stop making computers a few years ago too.
Bringing it back to Sony, the PSP is really catching on now in Japan with Monster Hunter 2 (ironically, MH3 is now Wii exclusive), but the PS3 has… Heavenly Sword, Resistance, and possibly Warhawk. More games are coming down the pike (LittleBigPlanet, Unreal Tournament, etc.), but it’s still too expensive. Oh, and nobody cares about Blu-ray.
Nobody knows how much Sony sells but Sony; unlike Nintendo who reports units sold, Sony only reports units _shipped_ to retailers. Microsoft does this also, so the 12M figure is a bit misleading.
I believe the PS3 will be a late bloomer, but it will never catch up to the Xbox 360 and Wii.
Sorry for the long comment, but there was a lot to address.
Reading back my comment, the part addressed to tori may have been a little inflammatory. I certainly didn’t intend it to be that way, so I apologise before anyone gets the wrong idea.
@ Tori, i’ll definitely see if i can find such a plugin to install, unfortunately I don’t use wordpress for this blog so it will be a little harder
@volt no worries. I personally love nintendo, who doesn’t love their games? they have some of the best characters of all time.
The conclusion that we came to was simply a pragmatic on based on facts (accurate or not) on the gamecube and what the class/ teacher wanted to here from us as an answer.
@Jamai You don’t have a notification feature for your comments. I just happened to look back at this post and saw these replies. just letting you know. I need to add notification to Daily J too, it’s on my to do someday list…