PlayStation 3 Production in Japan Ending Soon - News
by William D'Angelo, posted on 17 March 2017 / 8,964 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan announced PlayStation 3 production in Japan will be ending soon. The 500GB model is the only one left in production in Japan and the official page says "shipments are scheduled to end soon."
The PlayStation 3 launched in November 2006.
Thanks Gematsu.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Sony don't fuck around when they say their consoles have a 10 year life cycle.
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Great console especially for the select few games that are designed from the ground up to run on the hardware and look amazing.
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PS3 launched in 2006 and ends production in 2017. Wii U launched in 2012 and end production in 2016. I write this to give some perspective.
So Sony finally stopped producing their biggest flop in playstation history. The games on it where fantastic though, but hardware wise and profit wise it was a shipwreck.
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Still sold more than 360 at the very end. But yeah, it almost wrecked PS division.
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Psv probably didn't cost them money and was actually profitable given the memory cards+strong digital shift. PS3 was not a flop obviously, but it wasn't the success they expected, especially early on its life
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@leyendax69 100 million sold or flop. That is in regard to PS home consoles due to the bar being high.
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The PS3 was financially a far bigger flop than the Vita it did vaporize the complete profits of the PS2. Vita didn't nearly cost as much to develop nor was the hardware sold at big losses.
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Good riddance. I know I'll get flagged for trolling, but my ps3 is probably the worst console I've ever owned. It was loud, updating took forever, I've been hacked twice, and the games were nothing fantastic to my taste. It's mainly why I've sworn off the PlayStation brand. Rot in your box.
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cool story. We all definitely enjoyed the amount of effort put into this post
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He didn't like the console, no need to down vote the guy for it. The world isn't all candy and rainbows people.
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