| Final-Fan said: Au contraire. I agree that Sony focused on cutting-edge hardware so much that it shot itself in the foot.  (Cell may be costing them a lot -- I don't know the numbers -- but Blu-ray was a total clusterf*@# for the first few months.) But Microsoft's sin was much, much greater, and carries more potential for long-range negative impact. |
I think we're more or less in agreement.
IMO the PS3 is an excelent implementation of a bad design (not at all an "engineering masterpiece"), while the 360 is a awful implementation of a pretty decent design.
And before anyone flames me about the "engineering masterpiece" thing, I'll say that the PS3 absolutely is the fulfillment of an "engineer's (wet) dream". It's one of those things that come out when us geeks literally "look at no cost". But that's not engineering - engineering is first and foremost about working with constraints.
