gamings_best said:
your personal bias is making you out to be a word that would be banned XD lolz, and the ps1 and ps2 never existed, the 2 best selling home consoles are both sony my friend. looka at the ps3 as a risk, nothing more nothing less, Sony more than knows how to destroy a market the ps1 and ps2 prove that. and they are way more successful than M$, because back in the ps1 days nintendo and sega ruled supreme, the ps1 was unknown and sold at the same price as it's competitors...... and completely dominated them, xbox HAD to release a year and a half earlier and they NEEDED to be hundreds of dollars cheaper. And even still they are losing a lead nowhere near as big as what the previous playstations had. I love how people conviently leave that FACT out of ps3 vs. xbox. I love how people talk about Sony and how arrogant and cocky they were blah, blah, blah. these idiots had no idea waht the ps3 was doing for sony, Selling a console that cost 850 dollars to make for 600 is not arrogant at all, selling a ps2 hd upgrade that would insure market domination for 600....... that's freaking arrogant. But people know everything these days don't they? Sony wanted to provide and extemely powerful console no matter the cost (imo), they also wanted to insure the future of playstation, look at it this way, the transition from ps3 to ps4 will be extremely easy, less expensive, and super powerful, cannot say the same for M$.
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The fastest selling consoles are both Nintendo, the most profit in a generation Nintendo again and the most likely to succeed class of next generation is again Nintendo. Hell Nintendo are the only ones in it for the money it seems as both Sony and Microsoft are litterally stupid in a financial sense.
The biggest console flop this generation is the console with the most compute flops. How ironic, no? Remember the PS3 was fighting for first place and not some scrappy pathetic 2nd place photo finish with a baggage full of losses. All the PS1 showed was that Sony is a good opportunist, all the PS2 showed was that when the competition doesn't front up the leader of the previous generation rules, what the PS3 shows us is that Sony haven't got a clue as to what people actually want.
Selling a console for $599 isn't arrogant, making a console which costs the company $850, selling it for $599 and then cutting the price by 1/3rd less than a year later is stupid. Stupid is as stupid does and Sony got the stupid alright. If they wanted to ensure the future of Playstation they've gone about it the wrong way of course. You only ensure your future by winning in the console space or at least making a profit, they have neither.
Super powerful doesn't win the race, super appealing does however. Super powerful will also be super cheap in the future and super easy to develop for as Nintendo doesn't need PowerPC anymore as AMD can license X86 now. Quite frankly I don't particularly care what the hell Microsoft does with themselves. They can die, succeed, win, take a bow and exit the console space for all I care about the particulars. They win the award of 'slightly less stupid than Sony' yay for them.
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