How Sony defeated Sony

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d21lewis said:
The PS1 was the hands down dominant console of the 5th generation. The PS2 may very well have been the overall greatest console ever made. Over 10 years of domination, and the PS3 is still trying to find it's niche. Damn right, Sony beat themselves. There was no other console that had the notoriety and acclaim that Sony's Playstation brand had. How did it go so wrong so fast?

They made many of the mistakes of the current gen in the previous gen and they got away with it once, but not twice.

The PS2 was:

• Difficult to program.
• Didn't have the proper tools for third parties until much later.

Its just that other mistakes such as price they made this generation compounded with repeats of the above to make an all round mess of things.

The thing is, there was no console strong enough to call them on their mistakes last time so they repeated the mistakes this time. Its like how the seeds of failure for the N64 were sown in the SNES generation between Nintendo and third parties.

Now that their stranglehold on the console market has been broken completely, they can ill afford to repeat any of the mistakes they made in the past. They are essentially starting afresh with the PS4.