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Jazz2K said:
I don't know... like some already said, it doesn't matter much at this point but Sony fans that believed hard about this for years will at last see their wet dream come true, good thing if it helps them sleep better.
To me it's a surprise it took this long. If you analyse correctly, Sony has been hit hard this gen. Being number two doesn't change a thing when next gen comes. Look where they were last gen. They completely dominated both Ninty and MS but this gen...
Their hardware featured way more that the competition. Which caused it to be $200 more than its closest competition.
They had free internet multiplayer access. This service was nowhere near the point of competing with Live at launch.
They had Blue Ray. Which also caused it to be $200 more than the 360.
They made a lot of incredible exclusives. For the first 1 1/2-2 years the SW support was not very good, at all.
They started with the biggest brand in video gaming. This is really the only thing they had going for them.
Their big competitor (360) didn't have it easy at all.
RROD that tarnished 360's image for at least 3 years which, deny it all you like, resulted in people not buying 360 because of this. This was mostly ignored by the American gamers, as evidenced by the fact sales were fine even after RROD was officially acknowledged.
Sold next to nothing in Japan. Proof is that if you remove 360's Japanese sells, it's still number two right now. They'd be pretty damn close if you did take away Japan. But Japan is their biggest weakness.
Didn't have as much flamboyant exclusives as Sony. Have no idea what this means. But 360 did have a Halo, its most popular franchise, within 2 years of its launch, while PS3 didn't get GT till 4 years after launch.
You had to pay to play online. And considering how much better that service used to be when compared to PSN, people thought it was worth it.
Didn't have a blueray player. No one knew if Blu-ray would even win the format war, so this isn't exactly a plus to its launch.
Didn't have a wireless router. This was a negative, but I doubt it was the HUGE deciding factor for anyone.
So yeah, in the end, they were hit pretty bad, they had everything to beat the competition but failed to. Next gen will be interresting.
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