HylianSwordsman said:
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.
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Sales were cut nearly in half and you don't see any punishment at all? Sure buddy. Keep licking those boots. It changes nothing for anyone.
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Alright, as CGI points out, I see how that might be seen as upsetting due to the explicitly negative connotation, so let me rephrase. I think you're making these arguments out of an emotional loyalty to Sony rather than any sincere belief that Sony's brand didn't suffer during the PS3 era. I also think you don't sincerely, on an intellectual level, believe that Sony's choices to overprice the console and tell fans to get a second job didn't play a part in that sales drop. Or their expectation that expensive, advanced hardware that only 1st parties could figure out would sell as well and have superior ports to a less expensive, easier to program for console. I say this as someone that preferred Sony to Microsoft. I think they're making a mistake and I think people that defend them unreflectively and refuse to take valid criticisms seriously only hold them back.
Edited for clarity.
Last edited by HylianSwordsman - on 04 September 2018
