What is Sony's biggest Mistake?

[Nymeria]

DonFerrari said:

Nymeria said:
The Cell processor. Over all it didn't add much of an advantage over a year older 360 and made ports tricky even today with backward compatibility. If the PS3 was essentially a 360 inside and launched closer in date and price they would likely have been far more competitive early on and made a profit on a system.

Controversial one is not putting online play behind a paywall from day one. Stinks for gamers, but PS+ has been huge for the stability and growth of their gaming division.

Cell was a lot stronger than PPC on X360, problem was the weaker graphic card...

And PS+ even if you put as controversial, when it was just games gifted on subscription had only about 2M subs, now that it's necessary for MP have it around 30-35M... and at least it only blocked MP gaming instead of all internet usage as done in X360.

Imagine it's price if it had a comparable graphics card.  $800 at launch? 

My point was it didn't give Sony an advantage in the market putting so much into the Cell. They realized this and went more standard components for PS4 which is raking in money.

Yes, I agree, and that's my point. If they made online play part of PS+ back then would have had billions more in revenue to offset losses.