the_dengle said:
Yup, too early. Manufacturing costs were too high, especially for the Blu-Ray compatibility, driving the price up. Launch games were so-so. PS2 was still selling quite well. If Sony had waited till Holiday '07 to release the PS3, it would've been heralded as the second (or third?) coming of Video-Game-Console-Christ. And it probably would have sold as such. As it was, Sony was already forced to drop the price before the PS3's second holiday. They may as well have waited a year to begin production and launched at $500. |
A 2 year gap would've been too big, there no ways the ps3 library would have been able to compete with the 360's 2 years worth of games. Also it wouldn't have done too much to help the launch situation as none of the Sony exclusives that year got tons prasie from critics and the actual production of 8 or so million PS3's throughtout 07 was what allowed the cost of blu-ray drives to be reduced in cost.
I honestly think that for the PS3 to be the machine it was intended be (supporting blu-ray), Sony have done the best they could. The only thing they shouldb't changed was that the cell proccessor was a waste of money and cost far too much, and there 1st party titles for the 1 should have been alot better, but you never know how a games going o turn out. They had over 3 games which looked like system sellers (Lair, Heavenly Sword and Uncharted 1) but the execution wasn't there and none of these game recieved the reviews they needed.
They've sold a ton of systems though and from a consumer point of view I would say its been a big success. They've obviously lost a big market share to Microsoft but thats less about what they did wrong and more about what microsoft did right.
