SnK0610 said:
Sony didn't win with the ps3 becuase they did a lot of mistakes - Very high price. Backward competibilty for USA and Japan and not for Europe. Many different verions of the cosnole - 40 g 60 g 80 g 20 g. Not enough attractive games at the launch. All these mistakes is what caused them not to be the winner. With the ps4 they corrected many of these mistakes. This is why they are winning this time at the console war. |
Granted that Sony made minor mistakes they did not make a lot of HUGE mistakes. Sony did what Sony always does, but the problem is that Microsoft figured out what makes them tick and copied it to split the market Sony had grown from what Nintendo had started.
The only TWO major problems with Sony last gen:
-Price
-Online that wasn't on par with the competition.
All the other issues were trivial compared.
It was predicted by market analysts that based on Sonys launch sales that they would pass the 360 by 2011 being that they outsold the 360's first year, which means if you count year for year Sony sold more even at $200 more.
After the first generation Microsoft took such a heavy beating but quickly started to realize what made Sony stand out so much. It was their relationship with third parties. Microsoft had spent so much money on XSN, trying to make good first party (which they aren't good at.....at all) that they ended up wasting money on failed ventures. They let the third parties do the work for them. This is why Microsoft demands third party parity with Sony at all times, because Sony destroyed them with a fleet of third party in their first gen and they became paranoid.
They risked the quality of the first five years of the 360 to beat Sony to the punch with third parties. They kept a great portion of third party games from even reaching Sony consoles (Sony couldn't do anything about not getting Condemned, Ninja Gaiden, Dead Rising, Bioshock and other games at that time). Once Microsoft achieved parity or better with third party games, they fixed the integrity of their console while Shane Kim was the head. RROD was the worst ever in the history of the gaming industry and gave a bad name to American made products.
Every E3 from Microsoft was another lost 3rd party exclusive for Sony. In 2008 to be exact, Microsoft threw the final nail in the coffin and took Tekken, Final Fantasy and some other Japanese titles exclusivity from Sony. That was it. Once that was accomplished Sony had no shot of saving face.
From there Sony bumped up their first party and that was all she wrote.
When you can depend on yourself you don't need to be like Microsoft. Thanks to Microsoft they forced Sony into a position where they could make higher quality games by themselves while also having great relationships with third party. Microsoft will ALWAYS depend upon outsiders and that will never change.
Take this gen for instance. Microsoft had the better launch games, but did they make them? Mostly, No. They just paid to keep them away from Sony or paid third party to make their first party, since their first party cannot.
