| Jedidiah-Rose said: Does anyone remember Playstation 3's first year? When I imagine most of you as well as most of the gaming press absolutely slated the Playstation 3 because..."it arrived late". You praised the consistently dying and god awful 360 for coming out in late 2005 why exactly? If anything that showed Microsoft's failure with the original Xbox. Still,with all that bad press,the Playstation 3 sold 8-10 million in it's first year,under the incredible flack it was taking left right and centre.I would say that it was taking as bad a rep as the 3DO back in the early 90's,if not worse. Yet it sold that much,because it was a Playstation console.Thus that is power of the Playstation brand. It's iconic,15 years they've been around consistently selling.Their controllers are iconic,never changing always there for the person who knows those controllers like the back of their hand after playing with one in the last generation. Xbox FAILS because it's a weaker brand than Playstation.That's it in a nutshell. For years I've talked,argued and generally debated over games with thousands of people online.The one thing that has been made clear in all of my discussion is that 8/10 of the people I talk to say they wanted a PS3 over the 360 or Wii they had already,but it was just the price putting them off. As the PS3 continues to get cheaper,you'll find the 360 failing to keep it back,and fall to third place. Then I will be profoundly happy if Microsoft gets the message,and f*cks off. |
Keep talking and losing credibility. Microsoft doesn't feel the need to buy out every great 3rd party they see like Sony. They fund the gaming and make deals with them so they can go about their business after the work is done. Sony has had three generations to purchase a fleet of third party. If Microsoft bought seventeen first party companies, they would have Sony by the balls. Look at how many first party companies Microsoft has right now and they can put up a fight. If you don't believe me, think about the wall of games Microsoft would have if they had over seventeen first party companies making games for them. Microsoft surprised even me this gen and if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have bought a console until 2008-2009 period. Sony and Nintendo have barely done anything for a gamer like me. Sure Sony won the hearts of the tech nerds early on but i'm a gamer.
