But seriously tho - where did PS3 go wrong?

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Carl2291 said:

Skeeuk said:
the price was simply too high had it launched with a 360 like price point of £280 it would have been unstoppable

my 1st 360 was £210 + £35 memory card

my 1st P.S.3 was £399 it was almost twice the price for me, I even had to lie to wife about the price

that's where it all went wrong

You cant say that, because if it launched at £280 instead of £425 then Sony would have lost so much more money. It would have crippled the company.

Would have had to be a totally different machine to be £280.

Essentially, the PS3's biggest drawback was that it was the PS3.

Oddly enough, there's a good chance it could've been more cost-effective if Sony stuck with the original architecture proposals the PS3 had around E3 2005 with the more unified version of the Cell, the drawback being it wouldve been even more obscure to develop for. But since Microsoft jumped the gun with the launch of the 360, I guess they had to go back to the drawing board.

SCEUK have certainly had their head in the sand either way though. No system should ever take 5 and a half years to drop below £200. I wonder if I would even have a PS3 at all today had it not been for the 60GB model discontinuation rush.