Gamasutra: XBOX360 ahead of PS3 Slim

[Jordahn]

Scoobes said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Jordahn said:

blunders that would have normally spelled doom for past consoles

Sony appeared to have almost endless funds to piss away into the PS3. Past consoles generally didn't have that.

Doesn't make what they've acheived after such a terrible start any less impressive. Microsoft actually have near endless supplies and resources to spend on all X-box products, but that doesn't spell success.

I think we can all agree looking back that one of the PS3's purpose was to be a trojan horse for Blu-Ray.  Then you add that to the fact that diodes during Blu-ray manufacturing before the PS3's release suffered at a dismal 10% yield.  Then later the economy bottomed out.  All this was very costly (or "pissed" away as Puggsly would like to have it) for SONY.  Hey, Microsoft "pissed" tons of money away on Live development and the Xbox brand name.  I would argue that the PS3 is in a better position as a third place console worldwide now than the original Xbox was 2nd place last gen while SONY is just now profiting off of their games division while Microsoft was not during the original Xbox days.