| mantlepiecek said: That is not true. They probably overestimated their profit through blu-ray because that is the only reason PS3 has made so much of a loss on the Hardware. Everything else was minor. They knew what they were getting into when they made blu-ray a standard for the PS3. I doubt they expected the PS3 itself to pay for it. |
Granted, if Sony and Toshiba had worked together rather than fight each other over Blu-Ray vs HD DVD, Sony would have likely had a drive faster, I think the Cell processor was their biggest loss. Toshiba was to market first with the HD DVD, where as the PS3 had to wait, for among other things, the Blu-Ray drive. Had they gone with a different solution they likely would have spent less on R&D, gotten the PS3 out to market faster, had better development tools, been able to afford to spend a little more on a better GPU, and include software emulated backward compatibility for the PS2.
Instead they spent a long time developing the Cell, then exploring the use of the Cell as a GPU and when that failed resorting to an off-the-shelf GPU, after which they then gave the console to the software folks to work on and develop the tools necessary to make games.
