Successes
-Graphics. Sony's graphics are improving and we are getting some better games very soon. Nuff said.
-Blu-ray. The cell is going to be doing double duty for blu-ray movie duties and game CD's. That is great, b/c it saves technophiles money instead of making them buy another peice of hardware. Ultimately the price of the blu-ray portion of the PS3 is going to go waay down to manufacture. So this will be a big strength for sony, within 3-5 months.
-Software. I would call this a strength, but a limited and less strong of a strength. Sony's exclusive games for the remainder of 2007 look a lot better than the 360's exclusives but not as nice or as plentiful as the wii.
-Improved demographics - More high-def TV owners will mean more PS3 sales. Also, the average age of gamers is older these days, which should help sony ( and microsoft too for that matter)
Blunders-
-The upcoming eye toy is going to be a failure. In order for it to work, sony would have to encourage interactive games, the kinds of games that nintendo is known for. This will be a big shift in sony's philosophy and I don't think that they can play nintendo's game at this point.
-The PSN. This thing, so far hasn't done a whole lot with itself. The PSN has a lot of potential to rival Live, but sony seems to want to be mediocre in this department. I hope that HOME and Warhawk will make the whole online thing a strength of sony's rather than the weakness that it currently is. Now online gaming, adds a lot of value to games. I have been having fun playing starcraft for a few years now, and haven't played a regular one player match on starcraft for a few years now. So this online matches have really kept the game going a lot longer, so i'm pretty happy with the $30 that I spent on it.
For the online gaming, I expect this to be a strength of sony's or at least competitive with Live by mid 2008 if you include HOME in the comparison....
