DonFerrari on 27 February 2019
The_Liquid_Laser said:
The guys talking in this video are really annoying. I'd rather watch the original presentation.
Anywho, I remember the PS3. When it was first unveiled I thought it looked super cool, but no way was I going to pay $600 for one lol. In 2008, the price came down to $400 and then I found a deal where I got another $150 off if I got a Sony credit card. So I got my big, fat PS3 (sans backwards compatibility) took it home and found that it had like no games. It was about 2 years after launch and it was very hard to find games I liked. MSG4 was alright, but I never played the first 3 games. Also I didn't even have a HD TV yet which probably affected some of the appeal. Finally I look at the online Playstation Store and find Pixel Junk Monsters which is a great game. But I found it funny that I had such a powerful hardware device to play a simple downloadable game.
I got a Wii in 2009 and mostly played it for a couple of years. By around 2011 I'd played most of the Wii games I liked, and by that time the PS3 actually had a decent amount of good games. So PS3 was mostly a secondary console until 2011. And then I played it as my primary console for 2011-2013 or so.
Really the PS3 had a double whammy: huge cost and slow release schedule. They put all their money into the hardware when they should have focused on bringing games sooner. Also I don't think Sony expected Microsoft to compete so hard with the XBox360. The XBox really wasn't on most people's radar, but the XBox360 seriously gave Sony a run for their money. Between, the Wii and XBox360, Sony was kind of kept out of North America for most of generation 7, especially compared to how the PS2 did.
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The old no game meme.
