Comments on: Sales show PS3 outsold again--now by the PS2

Good: your console jumps in sales. Bad: it beats your newest console.

[markgillespie]

@Kwasiowusu

Clearly you aren't too smart with numbers. I'll help you out. Both sets of numbers are from the last official Sony and Microsoft end-of-year financial reports (March 31st). Yes both consoles have sold more since then, as we are now in may.

If you want to add more to the 360's tally to make it look less shameful, then you need to do the same to the PS3's total. I didn't steal any numbers from either, I used the same rules to both.

Of course the 360's numbers will be higher, as perhaps you have forgotten that the 360 shipped 12 months earlier than the PS3 in the US and 16 months earlier everywhere else. At the PS3 launch, Microsoft had sold 10m 360's. The gap it down to 6.5 m consoles. To pretend that Microsoft is somehow gaining ground, when then are clearly losing is, is pretty naive. As it looking at NPD numbers, as clearly American trailer trash loves the American console, so it's a skewed number, and not true of the global picture.

[parallaxscroll]

PS3 sucks because of its high price and unimpressive graphics. When PS3 came out in late 2006, it offered nothing new in terms of visuals/graphics that was not already being done on Xbox 360 in 2005 and PCs in 2004/2005. Unlike the PS1 in 1994/1995 and PS2 in 2000 which both offered a new level of 3D graphics performance that no other console or consumer PC/graphics card could offer. The PS3's GPU, RSX, is nothing more than a downgraded version of a highend GPU from mid 2005. There is no EDRAM to enhance the performance, unlike Xbox 360's GPU, Xenos, which has high bandwidth EDRAM. The shortcomings of PS3 has turned off developers as well as consumers. The CELL is very powerful but cannot make up for the GPU's weaknesses. PS3's strengths are in physics/simulation/processing and storage capacity, not graphics. It'll take a long time before games come along that play to the strengths of PS3, and by that time, the next generation consoles will have arrived. It's far too late for PS3 at this point. Sony should focus on making PS4 a breakthrough product with not only processing muscle, but graphics that cannot be rivaled by the next-gen Xbox or PCs. That'll be a hard feat to pull off. Perhaps Intel's manycore Larrabee GPGPU and a hybid form of rasterisation & raytracing for graphics rendering, will be the answer.

PS3 is constantly outsold because it costs too much and offers nothing in terms of visuals that cannot be done on other platforms.

THIS IS MY FIRST COMMENT HERE. I WOULD LOVE TO GET A PS3! MY 9 YEAR OLD SON AND ME 49YR OLD LOVE OUR GAMES! SO WE HAVE A PRETTY BIG PS2 LIBRARY. WELL SONY CUT THE THE USE OFF OF THESE GAMES FOR US! I WOULD GLADLY PAY THE $440 DOLLARS BUT SONY LEFT ME AND MY SON OUT IN THE COLD !!!