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Another thread of bickering. I will say that @PS4 is making sense on the issue that Sony isnt selling as much as they say..but id be inclined to think that units shipped will sell eventually, as retailers do not keep stock on hand for long. They also only buy as many as they need. It can be said that shipped = sales because once Walmart orders it, its paid for. But ill agree, the money numbers dont back up Ps3 passing the Xbox.
This is the whole truth so help me GOD
Look, for some strange reason somebody made that lie up and you guys been repeating that as gospel.
I worked in retail. When the PS2 and Xbox launched, I was working at todays equivalent to gamestop.
The stores only make pre-orders for lanuches, and the stores never get enough.
After all that dies down, they don't order how much they need like you saying. And they can return unsold systems. They don't buy them and sony collects the fee. If that was true, then there would be no reason to use the term "Shipped" na mean
Thats some lame shyt some fanboy years ago made up, and ppl who don't work in the industry believed it
There is no way they can judge how many systems they'll sell because its random as fukk. Now what you also have to take into account is SONY has had no problem all gen capitalizing off the lies. I can tell you why they even started to lie. First couple of years, PS3 wasn't selling too good. Industry experts were all saying Sony should abandon the PS3
This is how real and close it got to actually happening (fanboys don't seem to remember this tho)
Sony pleads with developers not to abandon PS3 for Wii and Xbox - GAMER.BLORGE
they had to beg? Basically they was in the same position the Wii-U is in right now (Story Tru)
Sony just like how it won the Blu-ray war (by paying off the rival companies for exclusivity) they bought MGS4 from Konami. Why you think that game never been ported after all this time
That game alone gave the PS4 hope, and Konami back then said if it couldn't sell 1million copies on PS3 then they would make it multiplat. I guess that was in the contract or whatever. Around this same time Sony stopped reporting "systems sold"
Wait, it gets funkier... I just posted an article which says sony is FINALLY making money off of the PS3.
Good for them. But they said this exact same thing 3yrs ago
After Nearly Four Years, The PS3 Finally Turns A Profit
These dudes basically have been lying since 2008 to avoid pressure from people who have stock in sony, because the pressure was mounting for them to abandon the PS3 to save from going bankrupt. Here's how much money sony has lost over the years...
2008 = 1 billion lost
2009 = 439 million lost
2010 = 3.17 billion lost
2011 = 5.57 billion lost
2012 = 6.40 billion lost
I personally became hip to sony's practices when the PS2 dropped and literally 70% of the launch systems we got were faulty. And a sony rep (a rep from each company would randomly visit to ask questons about sales) told us that sony was aware of the problem (Disc read error) and had no current plans to do anything about it. They settled with a fluke ass $25 refund and a free repair "if you still had a system, that was faulty" This was late 2005, like 2months before the Xbox 360 came out. So they got away with that and gamers on the sony side act like this didn't happen. the Xbox RROD was not as widespread as the DRE, FACT. DRE was allowed to go on for the entire gen basically. RROD was a 2yr engagement. More PS2's were sold right, so then I'm right about DRE if thats the case. Just showing you why I dislike sony, why my beef is valid and not based on "Im broke and this is all I know"
PS3 comes out, they lying about everything out the gate. Its why I was able to predict the price and release date. Because I was at that point able to read thru there lies/bullshyt. And have been doing it ever since. Now some report has it that xbox will outsell the PS4 3 to 1? Who is saying this, how do they know this? Sounds like something I been saying all along doesn't it I wonder why...