Recent Edge magazine has a great article on the history of Playstation. The article end with a remark that PS1 (and 2) were so successful because Crazy Kat was always make sure that they are first and foremost a game machine and not a multimedia machine. PSone was launch using Sony Music deivision and which at first want to sell it as multi-media device (CD and then DVD for PS2). It is remarkable that for PS3, that's exactly what Sony did and try to sell PS3 as multimedia hub instead of an awesome game machine.
It's a fascinating article and you can clearly see where they went wrong. I mean for PS1 they got on the stage and announce $299.00 (which was so cheap compare to 3DO and Saturn) but this gen they got on the stage and announce $599!!
