Davis Freeberg

Game Over For Sony In The Console Wars

Phoenix, I think we could argue that the the console wars go back even further than that, but it's been the last three that have turned this into a global mega business . Was it the commodore or the Atari that is considered the 1st, I'm not sure, but I think we both can agree that by the term 3rd generation, I'm referring to the most recent consoles.

Game Over For Sony In The Console Wars

Thanks for the thoughts Jimmy - First off, I'm not a professional writer and don't pretend to be. The article is merely my thoughts as a blogger on the console wars. If you want financial analysis, go contact one of the brokerage firms who pay big time money to have people look at this professionally. If you want the opinion of someone who actually loves and plays video games, than come to my blog. If you look back six months ago, you'll find that I basically said a lot of the same things, before the miserable sales hit. You can call it FUD if you want, but in another six months, I'll have another post blasting them, if they continue to perform at these levels.

I used the June number because it was the most current and because it demonstrates how difficult it will be for the PS3 to ever be as popular as the PS2. I'm not sure what to say about the E3 press "picking" Sony as the winner, but all the gamers I know are drooling over the Wii and not the PS3.

You're right about me not liking Blu-Ray. I personally, think it should be up to consumers to decide which next gen platform should win and not monopolistic companies. As long as Universal won't release their titles on Blu-Ray and Sony won't release theirs on HD-DVD, the entire next gen DVD market will be dead.

I had trouble getting current estimates on total PS3 sales, but if you want to argue that next December will be strong, I can understand that, however considering that they've sold a mere 2 million (my guesstimate) consoles after 9 months seems pretty pitiful considering the amount that Sony spent on this. Weren't they predicting that they'd sell 2 million in the first 2 months? What happen to the 6 million estimate from last March? The last 9 months includes a holiday season, including the highly anticipated launch and if you average this out it does bump up the average number of consoles sold to closer to 225K per month, but even at these levels, it'd take a lot longer than 10 years for Sony to replicate the ps2's success.

I used to be a hardcore PS2 fan, but they lost me when the Xbox 360 came out. I'm sorry if you disagree with my assessment on the console wars, but I think you are crazy if you think Sony has a snowball's chance of ending up on top of the 3 generation of consoles.