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JimmyDanger on 11 December 2012

I think this thread should have been titled "What did Sony need to do to win against the 360 while this generation was still current".

The amount of "I don't think it would make much positive difference" - "well what if we change this, this and this" - back and forths on here, as well as multiple edits/redoes of the OP  -  clearly show that this is the threads true theme, rather than an objective analysis of any clearly defined parrallel reality.



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MARCUSDJACKSON on 11 December 2012

sony would be 10m behind ninty, and 10m ahead of 360 had it been a global launch and not stretched out



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MARCUSDJACKSON on 11 December 2012
gigantor21 said:

I honestly didn't think it would've made much difference. Whatever extra power came from the Cell was never tapped into in a way that made the PS3's hardware advantage consistently unambigious. And the most hype and excitement was for the Wii, which had broader appeal and still would've been much cheaper. Even if the PS3 managed to get ahead, I don't know if it would've been able to match the Wii.

A more interesting question to me would be like this:

Say Sony still released the PS3 at the same price, but abandoned the Cell and Blu-ray support in exchange for a system with similar hardware to the 360--but more raw CPU/GPU power and memory. What could've they have done with the system in that context? How much more powerful would it have been? If PS3 games looked and ran significantly better, how would it have affected sales?

i think i like this question better, but you'd get the same responses either way.



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JimmyDanger on 11 December 2012
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
sony would be 10m behind ninty, and 10m ahead of 360 had it been a global launch and not stretched out


I agree that they definitely would have done better if they didn't delay the launch in their most loyal market by 5 months  AND remove PAL hardware BC.

They missed out on a holiday season - AND gave loyal PS2 fans the most tangible reason not to upgrade early ie. migrate their exisiting library to their new system.

 



MARCUSDJACKSON on 11 December 2012
JimmyDanger said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
sony would be 10m behind ninty, and 10m ahead of 360 had it been a global launch and not stretched out


I agree that they definitely would have done better if they didn't delay the launch in their most loyal market by 5 months  AND remove PAL hardware BC.

They missed out on a holiday season - AND gave loyal PS2 fans the most tangible reason not to upgrade early ie. migrate their exisiting library to their new system.

 

you read me well. i understand why devs abandodned the PS2 likely they did but it didn't make any sense to me.

 

the cost of dev ensured profit, and likely could have saved some dev.'s doors from closing.



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