Did Sony Fail The Playstation 3...

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OK, in my opinion the OP is all over the map and I don't feel like a mega-post right now, so I'll address the actual poll question and thread title: "Did Sony fail the PS3?"

First we need to define "the PS3". IMO, it's not some mythical hypothetical PS3 that might have been made, it's the actual PS3 that did get produced by Sony.

Did Sony fail that system? Once they'd finalized the specs, did they fail to do all they should have to help it succeed?

In my opinion -- NO. They dragged their feet on Home, GT5, and other things, but Sony certainly stepped up to the plate in support of the PS3. You can make an extremely good argument that Sony made a mistake to make a system like the PS3 that they lost so much money on initially, but they could not have realistically sold at more of a loss than they did.

The PSN is seen as a lesser alternative to XBL, but Microsoft did have a year's head start and more experience with OSes and that sort of thing. And I have always liked the XMB better than the 360's menu. I will admit that it's changed a lot since I used my 360 often, so now my preference might be more due to familiarity; but I don't think so.

Anyway I don't want to talk about every little thing: overall, considering what the PS3 was/is (and disregarding what it hypothetically could have been if it was a totally different system), Sony didn't fail it.