You dont have to mention Wii everytime someone talks about PS3 vs 360!

[Comrade Tovya]

mesoteto said:
^well if you want to go along that line then it can be a tie b/t the wii and the 360 as both have surpassed previous gen hardware numbers

and in that case the ps3 is really up crap creek

 

Well, no, it's not a tie.  Wii is definitely winning.  MS' goal is to be #1.  I'm just saying that MS is getting closer to their goal.  Sony on the other hand is stepping backwards.  Completely ruling two straight generations and then losing their monopoly in the 3rd (but gaining a monopoly in storage media in return).

Had Sony excluded the BD format from the PS3, the console probably would have started off at $300.00 and would now be even cheaper.  They also would have delivered it to market sooner (instead of giving up valuable ground to the X360).

But had they done that, they probably wouldn't have hands down defeated Toshiba & HD DVD.  So they gave up one thing to get another.  That wasn't the plan of course, but that's what they ended up doing.

I think Sony's marketing of, "we've got Blu-ray, and MS & Nintendo don't, ha ha!" marketing was a bust.  When the average person still loves their standard DVDs, it's hard to convince them that they are all idiots who are the behind the times.

Actually, the PS3s biggest nemisis in the beginning of this console war was the PS2.  They couldn't even outsell their own antiquated console for quite awhile. 

Sony really screwed this gen up in so many ways... kinda sad for a company who annihilated everyone last gen... 1st to last.