binary solo said:
Without a doubt the all in one concept was a good idea, but it was also not new. Playstation has never just been a games console. The original PS used the fact it can play music CDs as a selling point. Both the PS and XB 7th gen consoles had several multi-media functions that made those consoles so much more than mere gaming machines. The fact MS went all in trying to attract non-gamers to a brand that is inextricably and permanently linked to video gaming was a mistake. It wasn't as big a mistake as DRM and force bundling Kinect, but it was still a mis-play. They even had an object lesson from what Sony did with PS3 to tell them that going after a non-gaming audience is a bad idea. Sony put Blu-ray into PS3 not to make gaming better but to win the HD TV and movie format war. The fact people could say, at the time, that PS3 is one of the cheaper Blu-ray players on the market did not at all help Sony sell PS3's at the price it launched. Because above all else game consoles only sell to gamers. Some Xbox fans did buy a PS3 and use it pretty much exclusively as a Blu-ray player. But again even though used only for non-gaming purposes it still required the person to be a gamer to be aware that PS3 was a viable option as a Blu-ray player. So yeah, conceptually all in one is a good, albeit not original, idea. But the marketing strategy was rubbish, and completely lacked self-awareness. |
You have a point playstation kinda started the all in one thing but Microsoft was trying to expand that since now not as much people buy blu rays as before and they would download the movie etc. But yeah playstation started it and Xbox tried ot expand it.
