| forevercloud3000 said: MS came from nothing with this gen, Sony gambled hard this gen, this was the result. Seemingly, at least in the beginning, MS did everything right while Sony stumbled constantly. You can look at it either way.... -MS was able to really compete with their massive wealth and perfect advertising capabilities in an area completely dominated by Sony. Stealing massive market share and recognition in the States. or -It took Recession,constant and unrelenting bias of the media, frequent fumbling advert efforts, factory destroying Tsunami, a $600 price tag, and opponent year head start to even dent the Playstation brand. Yet it still stayed relevant when that amount of bad press would have sunk a lesser company eons ago. And out of all of those I think the MOST damning of it all was the marketing/advertisement of the PS3. MS's was just so on point in every venue for the 360. Sony's was very hit and miss. Every PS3 blunder was made permanently public while massive ones for 360 were covered up very well. If Sony had the Marketing know how of MS(once upon a time they did), Playstation would still be "defacto" market leader. I hope with PS4, they get that fire back. I will probably always root for them as I didn't truly become a gamer till Playstation :) |
Its not that MS did everything right. Sony made a tremendous fuck up by putting out a $600. Sony chased their fans away which allowed Nintendo and MS to thrive. MS did things to steal fans from Sony, but Sony basically gave them away.
The Playstation brand was able to stay relevant because Sony was able to take billions and billions of losses. Most companies would have sunk simply because they couldn't afford to do that.
The 360 had much worse press due to the failure rate and other hardware issue. The masses wanted PS3s, but consumers went with the 360 because the hardware was significantly cheaper and it was getting better games.
If Sony left out Bluray and launched their console for $399, it would have been the market leader. Sony never proved Bluray was essential this gen and to make matters worse physical movie sales have dwindled.
In a nutshell, price was Sony's biggest mistake this gen. Everything else is negligible in comparison.
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