Does the PS3 really need saving?

[Pristine20]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Pristine20 said:

forevercloud3000 said:
America is the obvious sourse of Sony's sales woes. I don't even see how this is refutable as the numbers dont like....

What is the difference between the PS3 and 360 in America?
-7.5million

What is the difference between the PS3 and 360 in Others?
-1million

How much total is the PS3 behind the 360?
-8.5million

Hmm now lets do some math, shall we? Which is the bigger chunk of the 8.5million?

America is the PS3's shortcoming, FACT! And as an American I can tell you it is NOT because its a bad product, NOT because it has no games. It is because America NEEDs 360 to succeed and PS3 works against that. THis is why you get 100+ articles every week all stating the PS3 is going to FAIL by the next coming week. This is why you get articles stating that BluRay is DEAD and DD is the Future?Right after hard numbers were released saying BD has a 350% increase? Right

You would thing Americans would know better though. I know our education rates are rediculously low compared to some others but where were they during Kindergarden? The first thing they teach you is "NEVER BUY AMERICAN!!!!" They lul you in with flashy prices then break your heart with shoddy products. Proof?
-GM/Ford, crap cars, everyone hates them, they are basically going out of business and our GOVERNMENT has to save them to help our economy.

-Windows VISTA, a load of hot garbage, no one liked this damn OS, IT was so wretchedly aweful, nothing worked for it.

-XBOX360, yea, its cheaper then the other console, but look at it's failure rate. almost 75% of all enitial 360s went RROD at LEAST once. That is not even including claims from this happening with newer models. I just had one come in last week that was just sold during christmas.

Yea, Now try your hardest to refute those FACTS Stage!

From reading his posts, S.T.A.G.E seems to harbor some inherent bias against the ps3 because sony added blu-ray and/or lost exclusives or something along those lines. I think you'd be hard pressed to convince him of anything pro-ps3.

 

I have no bias against the PS3. I am angry that Sony sacrificed their momentum to put a dying format that multiple companies had money on over intentionally. You know just as well as I do, that Sony can ill afford to screw around while Microsoft gains momentum. Thats all Microsoft knows how to do. They gain momentum and they eventually monoplize. Sony is the same way, but Microsoft is far more potent in the effort.

 

 The blu-ray format was new at the  time not "dying" as you put it. It's reception couldn't really be predicted which was a gamble. IMO, they just had the wrong vision of things. These people are humans not gods. It looks to me that Kutaragi thought the new technology presented by the ps3 would appeal to gamers regardless of the price. Perhaps, as an engineer at heart, it got to him that people always said the xbox's hardware was superior to ps2s so he got carried away on the tech front. He did say some outrageous things which didn't help the cause as well. Personally I don't really listen to PR so I don't care much for what he said. I did get a ps3 anyway simply because I wan't continuum and I'm heavily invested in a playstation library of games that still sees use. I do use ithe ps3's other capabilities now but they were not necessary for my initial purchase so I do agree with you that blu-ray was unnecessary yet BC was for me lol.

M$ would be hard pressed to eliminate nintendo but you're right that they've one-uped sony this gen and are capable of more. However, I also think that the very fact that ps3 has done what it has done despite the odds in price, loss of exclusives, media fallout, gamer rejection, etc means that M$ can't kick sony out of gaming either. Sony themselves would have to leave voluntarily if they feel they can't make money from this business anymore. Thus, M$ would be hard pressed to gain a monopoly in this ndustry.