Are you implying that 3D would be in a different position now if Sony owners had the opportunity to sit through Avatar a bit earlier? 3D certainly did not fail

Are you implying that 3D would be in a different position now if Sony owners had the opportunity to sit through Avatar a bit earlier? 3D certainly did not fail due to lack of hardware adoption. In that metric, 3D has won. It just turned out to be one of the many, many features that are only important to check boxes in a product comparison matrix.