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I just am having a hard time believing this. People actually think Sony is going to cancel the PS3? Apparently so. It seems that a great number of people have entered the search terms "Will Sony cancel the PS3?". Wonders of humanity never ceases to amuse me.
While checking the websites stats as i like to do from time to time, i did come across some rather interesting information. Looking at the section which tells me what terms people used in search engines before coming across PlayStation Gamer UK. There were the normal PlayStation UK and killzone 2 pre-order terms, the one which stood out the most however was that was a considerable amount of people (so much so it was the second most searched term before visiting this website ) entering Will Sony Cancel the PlayStation 3″.
While clearly the people entering these searches are most likely not that familiar with the gaming industry and clearly unaware that the PlayStation 3 has seen solid sales since its release and like all consoles isnt going to go everywhere. It does peg the question why did they ask it in the first place. After looking into it there are some reasons why they may ask the question.
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on topic: why would sony stop the ps3 when its just about to make profit people shoul be smarter then this
Sony isn't really keeping up to speed, they're falling behind IMHO.
Oh yeah, falling behind indeed with all their features...where do you get these ideas from, silly?
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These misinformed idiots annoy me. They're probably the sort of people that put credit cards into the console >.> Or 8 years old.
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My opnion,though
Wii can only make SO MANY Sports and casual games before people get sick and tired of the crap that low rate game studios spit out.
PS3 may last a while, maybe as long as the 360 may. All I'm saying is the Wii is the first to go. "Bye bye,Wii!"
No one believed that Sega would stop making consoles either.
Don't worry folks! PS IS NOT GOING OUT OF BUISNESS. Then again, they could just call it quits like whimps.
Was I wrong? Coz if I'm not, then that would be like saying PS3 failed coz of the PS2.
In all seriousness, the PS3 needs a better library. And its coming, in the 2009 period. But I didn't buy my PS3 as an investment. I wanted a game console. That resulted in the purchase of my 360 as well..
The PS3 will get back into its usual Playstation stride. And I apologise if your offended by my remarks; but having paid $1500NZ dollars for the PS3 on its release date - March 23rd 2007, I'll say what I want regarding a console which I'm disappointed in.
If anyone can recover the top spot, its Sony with their Playstation. I would be surprised if Microsoft and the Xbox360 ever obtain 1st place in the console races.
Not in regards to you, Killosity, let's make this clear; but sometimes I hear people say there are no games on PS3, yet the ones they play on 360 are either multiplatform, or have perfect or better equivalents on the PS3.
I dunno, maybe it's because it's two years past and I'm getting tired of people always telling me my console choice has no future...
In 2009, there's hordes more. I hate how uninformed people can be...
MGS4, LBP, Resistance 2, Uncharted and Valkyria Chronicles are good examples of exclusives for the PS3 actually. Well, truth be told, thats about as good as it gets, but it is certainly catching upto the library of Microsoft. I'm seriously considering keeping my PS3 for Killzone 2. After buying Halo 3 and figuring out that its nothing more than hype-fodder, Im looking forward to what could be a legendary FPS.
Im not saying there are no games for the PS3 -hell, I have 11 titles for it myself, but its nothing compared to what was expected and promised for the console. Obviously I blame my own stupidity rather than the ethics of big business, but after being spat countless "ITS PS3 ONLY LULZ HERE IT CUMZ", I'm kinda disappointed in the lineup.
But such is life. Quality over Quantity is probably a better way to look at it. MGS4,LBP, and Uncharted help fill the void very well.
Which is actually pretty damn good, you must admit.
Imo, since I was a big Halo fan when the first released, that they just killed the story and replaced it with huge Multiplayer experience. I like to have a balance between both but it seems it didn't pan out that way with Halo's offline experience for me.
I don't have either a PS3 or an XBOX360, so I have no reason to support one.
Any chance I get to sell off my stuff for the money I need is perfect in my situation. So yeh, I do need a reason to sell off some of my luxuries thesedays. Each to their own aye.
Not getting at you btw. Just saying, everyones situation is different. I dont Want to sell a console. I just may have no choice sometimes...but the Nintendo Wii can go before anything.
If you need to sell your PS3, or anything for that matter, because you're tight on money, there is absolutely no problem whatsoever in doing so. Funds for medical and day-to-day life by far outweighs a gaming system. Do what you have to do, friend
But in thinking, I'd probably end up selling my Nintendo collection and leave it at that. I grew up with Playstation, and its a big part of my life. Not to the point where I sit in my basement, socially inept, and play all day long, but I like to spend an hour or two a day on the Playstation.
After all, I have to own you at Killzone 2.
And you will be owned, sir.
A fight for the ages, it will indeed be!
Report back.
Oh Slumpy Monkey, your so dead on Killzone 2 also.
Im pumped.
Think I need to go and play Killzone 1 again.
Then liberation.
Just to prep for the pwnage.
Anyway, why stop it? PS3 has good sales, no?
If a product is costing a company a large share of revenue with no growth, or, future growth in profit said product has a very high chance of being abandoned. I cross my fingers that this doesn't happen but the reality is that if Sony is taking major losses every quarter the PS3 could be the next Dreamcast. Gone.
http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=BAC&selected=BAC
http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=BAC&selected=SNE
Bank of America market value: $71,651,028,120
Sony market value: $3,392,219,600
they still arent gonna cancel the PS3 just cause they dont have as much money as 1 gay bank.
Nonetheless, that's still a reasonable amount of money.
But by god, lets hope not. A gaming industry without the Playstation name is a negative one in my view, especially with the path Nintendo has taken..
Just because the PS3 isn't the superior console and isn't ahead of the others by 100 miles doesn't mean that they'll stop. That's just beyond stupid.The PS3 isn't even a failure, it's just not as popular as the first 2 consoles where, so tell me wheres the logic in sony stopping??
Go on people who think the PS3 is the last console tell me 1 just 1 good reason for sony to stop making consoles and I will swear off games forever. JUST 1 GOOD REASON.
Say you had your own lemonade stand. You charged .50 cents for a glass of lemonade and between the sugar, cups and lemons it cost about .35 cents a glass netting you with a .15 cent profit per glass of lemonade you sold. Now, Billy who lives down the street opens up his own stand and sells apple juice. You want to compete so you buy bigger glasses, bags of ice (you can't make your own fast enough), higher quality sugar and larger lemons. You're now charging .80 cents a glass but all the premiums are costing you $1.20 a glass, that's a .40 cent loss in profits per glass. How long are you willing to hold out before you have to give up on the lemonade?
Wow so Microsoft, Sony get your ass in gear and get. Cancel both the Xbox and PS3 since nintendo is the only one making a profit out of their own console so why bother, you all suck compared to nintendo amiright?
Now if I'm not mistaken both the Gamecube and original Xbox where failures compared to the PS2.....and oh my god look Microsoft and Nintendo are still in the game.
Sony is not going to give up on the PS3 because of some setbacks despite doing well. There doing pretty good and there not really making that much of a loss know since it's cheaper to make.
Saying Sony will stop making consoles is stupid, beyond common sense.
Sony doesn't have many departments. When the PS3 first came out they took a huge hit to their profit margins for 2006/07 the major dep that helped keep things stable was their line of TV's, more so the Bravia series. If a company is making negative dollars from a department what do you think is going to happen? they either make cutbacks, close down smaller departments to redirect funds to other departments or cut their losses from products that are costing them more than what they gain in return. As I mentioned earlier Sony doesn't have many departments so what would they cut? their Laptop line? the PS3 which is costing them more than what they may be making?
While I doubt Sony would abandon the PS3 Japan is being affected by the current US economical events more than the US is. While we may not think that Sony would ever abandon the PS3 it's not an impossible scenario that would never happen. If you think it's impossible you're just being ignorant. Nothing is impossible in the business world. So, in this regard, no, it is not beyond common sense.
And no, Sony shouldn't stop making consoles - they've done a good job of the 3 so far. They're not going to stop, as it would a major error if they did.
It would cost them to do that. There isn't a point really, I mean what was all that gaming designing and hark work they put into for then? It will go to waste.
Besides, I'm thinking of buying a PS3.
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