How Microsoft defeated Sony.

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Pristine20 said:

slowmo said:
A famous idiom for you "fool and his money are easily parted", that would quite easily descirbe the person who paid $15,000.

The PS3 is the true successor to the PS2, just this time they didn't have a year head start and spend a fortune on securing third party exclusives. The only criticism I level at Sony is they completely cocked up their analysis on what people would be willing to pay for a console and the penalty is a overpriced product versus peoples perceived value.

I can say with 120% confidence Sony will not release their next console a year after Microsoft do. Microsoft set the value expectations the PS3 had to follow and ever since then its been catch up.

I can guarantee that 90% of the people who bought a 360 before the ps3 launched had an xbox. Why does this matter? M$ headstart didn't really do anything to sony's brand. Most simply waited for the ps3 to launch. It was the year 2007 when everyone realized that even after the price was a no-no, 3rd parties weren't supporting the ps3 like the ps2 so they just bought 360s for cheaper instead. Some loyalists like myself stuck with the ps3 though.

2007 was the fall of sony in the console market. After that year, most wouldn't ever pre-approve of them and be willing to spend $15, 000 on their consoles again

 

 

My point was that the price of the PS3 wouldn't have been as much of an issue if Microsoft hadn't released another HD console with so many similarities to make the big price a issue.  The PS3 was pretty much having to argue the point that Bluray was worth the extra big price hike which simply was never going to be a workable scenario when people looked at the titles on each and Microsoft's cheaper console could do the same.  Good old Ken believed the perceived value of the PS3 would mean people wouldn't mind buying the PS3, Microsoft had moved these goal posts though and Sony were left high and dry.

I agree that a large percentage of early 360 owners were probably xbox owners too but Microsoft did contribute to the early struggles of Sony.  If there were only Sony and Nintendo in the market now I think things could have been very different, arguably for the worst for many gamers.  Third party devs were heavily supporting the 2 HD consoles back in 2007 as they suspected the Wii to flop but because the PS3 had a smaller userbase it could no longer argue the case for exclusives as well, the year headstart they gave Microsoft directly caused this.