What will it take to get casual gamers to PS3? Is Blu-ray enough?

[MikeB]

HappySqurriel said:

MikeB said:
@ HappySquirrel

It lacked strong competition until it was in a "dominant" position

Poor Sega with their DreamBox....

What about the original Playstation, did it lack competition? Or was the console only popular because it played your music CDs?

People bought a PS2 because their friends owned a PS2

Why did people buy a Playstation 1?

DVD was the hot product on the market BEFORE the PS2 was released

So if the PS2 launched before DVD was popular, it would have failed?

Do you not understand the concept of a combination of factors?

The Playstation launched against a $500 Sega Saturn which (with inflation) would be similar to an $800 or $900 system today, Nintendo offended all third party publishers and launched 18 months after the Playstation with a difficult to develop for system which lacked a key feature developers wanted (CD audio); it was only after the N64 launched, Final Fantasy VII was released, and Nintendo had the worst game drought ever that the Playstation really dominated.

The Sega Saturn launched at $399 (equals $550 today) with a half year headstart, the PS3 has already considerably outsold this console's lifetime sales. I did not buy a Nintendo 64 for its CD audio.... The Snes was still extremely popular when the original Playstation launched, there always was good competition.

The Nintendo 64 sold very well in the beginning, if you would narrow your view I think it considerably outperformed PS1 and PS2.