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Editor-in-Chief of gametrailers.com Shane Satterfield  sat with Adam Sessler from G4tv, research analyst and host of Pach Attach Michael Pachter,  and reporter for the LA Times Ben Fritz to discuss if Sony will win E3; On Gametrailer’s Bonus Round hosted by Geoff Keighley.

During one segment of the episode Satterfield talks about Sony being a cooperation in “so much trouble” and turns to ask Pachter if it was smart for Sony to talk about their next console.

Before Pachter could even answer the question Satterfield expresses his reasons as to why he thinks PlayStation 3 has been a failure.

“PlayStation 3 has been kind of a failure” He continues on to say “They owned the market with the PlayStation 2, they’re just starting to turn a profit with the PlayStation 3. They talked about the ten year cycle when they launched the PlayStation 3 do you really see them bailing on that now?”

Pachter answered with ” The reason they’re in a rush to get out is they want to get in front of Microsoft.”

Pachter later says “Sony’s big mistake was that they over engineered the PS3 and they were forced to charge too much for it and they were late because they over engineered it.

After that Pachter says Sony will wont be late with PS4 and they will release before Microsoft’s next console. If that’s the case then perhaps Microsoft bested Sony this console generation.

What do you think is Shane Satterfield correct about Sony’s PS3 “being kind of a failure”? Do you agree with Pachter’s remarks about Sony over engineering the PS3?

http://techtroid.co.uk/shane-satterfeild-calls-playstation-3-a-failure-10623

Yeah, compared to the PS2, it is a failure.

But then again, compared to the PS2 every other console is also a failure.

Why don't we compare it to other 3rd place consoles across other generations? I'd say it's pretty damn successful.

Rule #7 of Fight Club. Fights only go on as long as they have to.

We've beaten up the PS3 enough this gen. It knows what it needs to know. Leave it alone.

I wouldn't say failure, but it did not live up to sales expectations early in it's lifecycle. The slower sales of the system early in the lifecycle made it take longer for the internal tech in the PS3 to come down in price, thus it took Sony a lot longer to turn a profit than investors expected. So I could see how in a business sense this could be considered a failure when they may have turned a profit much sooner if they put more "off the shelf" parts into the PS3.

But... By loosing money with the product they also pushed the adoption of the Bluray player, which is good for Sony. Unfortunately with how popular streaming has become in recent years not as many people have adopted the Bluray format as many of us expected. Heck I stream at least 90% of the movies/tv shows I watch. I think I only watched two Bluray movies last year.

Where's my 'to kill' list?

Grade A journalism. What was the alternate title for this "story"? "Please give us some hits, guys, seriously"?

Blu ray is a failure, other than that PS3 just underperformed compared to its predecessor, which is bad, but not a failure.

depends on how you look at it

Sony didn't deliver on a lot of things and they had to basically revive the Ps3

i guess you can say that a product is a failure when ever the company has to revive the product

but they did turn that failure around though

Units sold? Well it's going to sell over 90 million in its lifetime so compared to PS2 it's failure but still successful compared to pretty much anything else.

Game wise? Again. It's going to ship over 800 million games and it has big catalogue of games with very high critical score but still of course compared to PS2 with over 1500 million games shipped pretty big failure.

Financially? Hell yeah. Biggest failure in gaming industry after the original Xbox.