forevercloud3000 said:
HylianSwordsman said:
Amazing. And people are defending this shit. Simply amazing, the depths people will sink to for their brands.
Protip, arrogance in the gaming industry always ends badly eventually. PS2 made Sony arrogant, and it cost them dearly when PS3 released. Microsoft got arrogant after the 360 and Kinect, and made an always online built in DRM nightmare with a $100 privacy-concern-raising brick attached forcibly attached, and they never really recovered. Nintendo got arrogant after their runaway success with DS and Wii and made an overpriced DS successor that was overpriced for no reason, and an underpowered home console that couldn't be powered up without massively overpricing the system because it had a tablet attached that made the system difficult for 3rd parties to develop for, and then on top of it marketed the thing in the stupidest way possible making people think it was a $350 Wii add on, and they fell the hardest.
Nintendo learned their lesson. Microsoft took a little while but they seem to have learned their lesson. Sony seemed to learn their lesson, but now it's looking like they didn't at all. They just got lucky because Microsoft was even more arrogant at the beginning of the gen and Sony just took advantage of that and built an insurmountable lead, and now they think that was all their doing, when it was actually Microsoft's failure. Gen 9 will be interesting. With Microsoft still humbled by recent wounds, and Nintendo not competing directly, I can already see Sony having a horrible, arrogant reveal and Microsoft taking the lead for a gen, and I mean truly taking a lead, not a virtual tie. And since next gen might be the last gen, they might keep that lead forever, or at least until traditional home console experiences fade from popularity. |
Why do people attribute PS3's failings to arrogance and not the rightful $600 price tag? I mean sure, you had to be kinda arrogant to think that wasn't going to be an issue but It was def the pricing plus the year head start for 360 that helped it stay ahead of the PS3.
The reality is that the Playstation platform has always out performed the competition. And usually at a margin that is undeniable. PS1, PS2 and now PS4 each have 50% plus marketshare of their respective Gens. The PS3 was the only anomaly. Yet even still....if you take away the 360's head start and align their releases you will see the PS3 outpaced the 360 almost the entire gen. IE, PS3 was always more popular worldwide than Xbox and would have handily out sold it if they came out same time. Arrogance and huge price point didn't even stop the PS brand, it was the tenacity of their competition.
There is a thin line between Confidence and Arrogance. Is Sony really arrogant when they have the history in performance and sales to back up that their method works?
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Dude, you're nailing this shit. I briefly had the thought of touching on the idea that there was much more at play in the PS3 era than the corporate image Sony was projecting, but didn't have the energy to do it, much less deal with the potential follow up retorts.
