Jandre02 said:
This is just funny now. Why is it that people want the PS3 to be losing money so bad? Its like you all forget that SONY OWNED GAMING FOR 7 YEARS! They know what they were doing, its not like they made the PS3 and then said "oh shit, my bad, that was a complete mistake." They messed up a few things, but blu-ray was the main cost. I think the cheapest Blu-ray player was like 1,000 when the PS3 came out wasnt it? Now its sub-$400, yet no one believes that Sony cut costs? The production costs have come down much more than $100 dollars since launch. They have also taken some production parts of of developement, and cut down production errors. You dont have to believe it if you dont want to, just know that it is very likely that Sony will reach $299 this year.
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Since when do you have to be intelligent to be successful? Sony essentially stumbled into success. The PS1 began as a joint venture between Sony and Nintendo, but Nintendo backed out (which was a stupid move on their part) and Sony decided to go forward with the product as revenge. Sony was aided by the fact that Nintendo had mismanaged its third party relations, leading to the defection of developers.
The PS2 was a completely retarded hardware design. While the games industry was in the middle of the great migration to hardware accelerated 3D they combined an unconventional CPU with an anemic GPU resulting in a cumbersome system that could never match the performance of a system using an off the shelf CPU with a good GPU. The PS2 succeeded by virtue of its early launch, the successful efforts of its PR team to derail the Dreamcast, and the reluctance of developers to defect again so soon.
