| forevercloud3000 said: 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. |
Are you going to forget that Sony had to butcher the PS3 to put it back on the map and to compete? That heavy price tag, there marketing approach, everything.
Also lets not forget the PS3 lost more money in the gaming industry than any other console in history, losing around $5b. There arrogance cost them.
Sony needed to fix it or PS was going to die as a brand. Luckily for Sony they made the right moves to compete. They only took over the 360 when MS stopped trying. Sony this gen were extremely lucky that both Nintendo and Xbox tripped over the starting line. Next gen might be alittle different.
Being confident is one thing, being confident fuelled by arrogance is another and there confident in all the wrong ways.
