BeElite said:
Machiavellian said:
All those are points on top of a high price. No exclusives that really showed why you should pay either price over a 400 dollar 360. 360 multiplats performing better than the more expensive system. It matter not if its 500 or 600, it was still more expensive then the competition. You had the Wii at 300 hundred with the innovative mind share at the time and you had the 360 pop out games that played better at less money (exactly what we see today but opposite).
The key is that as it is today, unless the tech made games look and run better, gamers really did not care if it was using a Blu-ray drive, had 4 USB ports, PS2 backward compat and other crap. The perceived value is the same as what we see with the X1. Gamers do not care how much other crap you throw within a console as long as the end result is better games.
If there was any true leason Sony learned from the PS3 is that start with the hardware that make games look and perfrom great on your system first, then worry about that other stuff later. For first adopters and momentum, games are still the motivation factor in purchases and a solid price.
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Gamers would not care about 500 600 if the PS3 launched first and had the games, but late release and pain in the ass development screwed it the most. Gave 360 time to build a lead a library and with beaing one year its quality software came mosh sooner.
PS3 fist year out sold 360s, so argue price all you want but sales show even at double it sold more the 360 and sold it with competition on the marlet. Whiel 360 had the market to its self.
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@Bolded: Lets change that. Do you think gamers would care if the PS3 launched at the same time as the 360 with that price. Saying gamers would not care if it launch first means that they would have no option to pick something different. I do not know about you but I like choice. Its the reason I have a PS4 over the X1 because the PS4 was cheaper with the best performance and better looking games.
You forget something that killed the 360 momentum, RROD. But thats another topic for another day.
