Sony Boss: Fortnite On PlayStation 4 Is The Best Experience For Users

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HylianSwordsman said:

forevercloud3000 said:

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?

It was arrogance. Do you remember the comment about getting two jobs to afford it if they didn't like the price tag? Do you remember how they bragged about the cell microprocessor and how it ended up never being used to its full potential by any third parties, and in fact most multiplats performed worse on PS3, making that fancy tech little more than an expensive ball and chain? Sony wasn't arrogant in the PS1 and PS2 era, and it payed off because they took nothing for granted. In the PS4 era, they had an opportunity to be arrogant and greedy like Microsoft, but won huge credibility and trust with gamers by siding with them, and that payed off too. Nintendo had history too. They saved the industry in the 3rd gen, beat tough competition in the 4th, and crushed both competitors in the 7th. Coming fresh off the 7th, they were arrogant and failed miserably with the Wii U. Also, I don't know what method you're talking about, because Sony changed their method for each generation. But sure, keep defending them. It does nothing for you and nothing for them, but I'm sure it makes you feel comfortable to think that your chosen console brand is an irreproachable god of business and gaming. Pride comes before the fall.

Yet I don't see how the PS3 performance was some sort of righteous retribution for their supposed Arrogance.  The PS3 didn't fall behind the 360 after their bold claims, the PS3 started behind 15million because it came out a year later. The $600 price point also wasn't as detrimental as people think because like I stated, the PS3 out paced the 360 worldwide most of the gen(IE sold more on a monthly basis). If PS3 came out the same year as 360, it would have been at least 15million ahead, had the PS3 had a year headstart it would have been 30+ million ahead. The Playstation brand just has higher selling strength than most are capable of  perceiving. 

Whether the decision to delay the console a full year, the $600 price point, the , use of Bluray or the Cell Architecture was a bad idea or not, the selling power in spite of them is phenomenal. Especially when you think this all took place during the peak of a Global Recession. You have to think, for every thing that was holding the PS3 back the 360 had that much more of a chance to take the lead but was still only able to do so temporarily because the PS3 eventually overtook it in Sales(albeit sometimes disputed).

 

My point being is that Arrogance couldn't have been what took down the PS3 because it was never really taken down to begin with.