Top five mistakes Sony is making with Playstation 3

[MikeB]

5. Not really, 3rd party support seems to have greatly improved. Nearly all well selling 3rd party games which were released for the 360 ended up on the PS3 as well. Many companies which in the past only produced PC games have now moved onto supporting the PS3.

Only Microsoft published 3rd party titles weren't ported (for example porting Mass Effect would make sense, as it uses cross platform middleware). And Valve's zombie game, but Valve is run by a pigheaded ex-Microsoft employee.

4. Many people, me included. Appreciate the wealth of added features, PSN being more powerful for developers and free to consumers, IMO the PS3 is already well ahead of XBox Live. Microsoft is doing nothing similar to what Sony is doing with regard to Playstation Home.

PS3 exclusives usually support more online features (like user created content in LittleBigPlanet), more online players (like in Killzone 2 or Motorstorm: Pacific Rift) and show less lag issues.

3. Maybe you have a point. At least you can play all your PS1 games on the PS3 already. I guess more and more PS1 classics will be available for download in due time. (Maybe they are selling better in other regions)

2. I don't agree, the cost reduction is well appreciated as demonstrated by the very significant sales increase when entry pricing dropped to 400 dollars/euro one and a half years ago. IMO they should furher cost reduce the PS3 by going slimline, bringing back PS2 compatibility is a thing to implement for the future.

Selling PS3s with PS2 chips now, adds costs now and would render these chips largely useless when software emulation is implemented.

IMO at this point entry pricing is more important than PS2 backwards compatibility.

1. I prefer to have a PS3 instead of a PS2.5, sure relatively high entry pricing has affected sales. But the PS3 is still extremely cheap considering system specifications. Blu-Ray and Cell related technology costed a lot of R&D, but I think in the end most PS3 owners will be thankful.