I have speculated that many times Sony should have used their current lead with the PS2 and delayed the PS3 by a year or two and made the technology cheaper and perhaps even more powerful so that the different between the 360 and the PS3 was gigantic.
This is the way to disrupt the market... bring out a console in the middle of the generation of the other two.
Continue main development on the PS2 with a few houses working on BIG PS3 launch software... have some massive titles available for PS3 launch and their sales would have been massive and there would have been heaps of reason for people to want to buy the console.
This would have worked for a few reasons I believe -
The Xbox 360 would look weak and out dated.
The PS2 if still supported could clearly have a few more years in it... especially with Wii success, if there were big titles being released constantly then they could still hold market leader position with that until PS3 came and they build it from there.
Instead they are crossing the platforms over and I think this works negatively for the new console (it starts slow) but by now the PS3 has such a bad rep that it just isn't ever going to be huge... it can't catch up - not even with it's massive massive titles.
I would have liked to have seen Sony take a risk like that.
