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Well I can only speak for myself, but.. 2005-2006 was the era I was looking to branch out from just Nintendo (and partly Sega but they had gone under) and I was truly split, on the fence between the 360 and PS3 at the time. I can pretty safely say that if the PS3 had launched for the same price or cheaper than the 360, I likely would have gone in that direction, and may still have been a Nintendo-Sony gamer today, rather than a Nintendo-MS one.

I even remember watching that epic Resistance vid in early 2006 over and over and hyping myself up for my first Sony console, but the company's rather poor E3 2006 performance and "599USD" for the premium unit pretty much squelched that notion and I shifted to 360 soon after. I mean, there was also Rare (who I was still a big fan of at the time) and Gears looked cool, but I'm not sure that would have been enough if Sony have just launched with a competitive pricepoint.

I definitely think this is somewhat what played out on a larger scale, and the steep pricepoint is a big part of the reason PS3 only barely beat 360 and was outsold by Wii.

Last edited by DarthMetalliCube - on 13 March 2020

 

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