No way will they take this attitude to the PS4.

I really hope they learned their lesson.

for the PS4 they have to:
1. Put a reasonable price tag (maximum $400)
2. Better release titles such as MGS5, Killzone 3, or whatever other series
3. Better advertising, the baby commercials were gay at the start
4. Sabotage the Wii 2 manufacturing plant :]

I think Sony have really learnt their lesson when it comes to the $500+ pricetag... Its a boundry that no console should cross!

I hope that they get the great games released for launch too, or at least some to tempt buyers to the console. Imagine if the PS4 was to have a sequal to a big franchise (e.g. FF) in its launch line-up! That would be immense sales right there :D

The time it takes for Blu-Ray to pass DVD has nothing to do with how feasible HD downloads are, thus has nothing to do with Blu-Ray vs. download in the HD realm. (Blu-Ray not passing DVD is not a failure.)

It will take fewer than 4 years for Blu-Ray sales to pass DVD sales.

Blu-Ray has sold more in its first couple years than DVD did in its first few.

"The first DVD players and discs were available in November 1996 in Japan, March 1997 in the United States, 1998 in Europe and in 1999 in Australia. By 2003 DVD sales and rentals topped those of VHS"

http://www.didyouknow.cd/dvd/dvdhistory.htm

But since Blu-Ray players can play DVD discs, adoption of Blu-Ray will be much swifter than was the adoption of DVD, whose players could not, of course, play VHS tapes.

Every console lacks games at launch, although I'd say Resistance was the best launch game out of the 3 (I'm sure a lot will say Wii Sports, but I don't). The high cost was because of blu-ray. I'm not sure the next generatin of consoles will need another format. It's possible that blu-ray scales to it's theoritical maximum and goes to 200MB, which would be 4 times the space instead of 5 times the space going from DL-DVDs to 50GB blu-rays. I do think Sony is less arrogant, but they must remain confident.

You have to account for inflation, though. The PS3 wasn't the most expensive launch, but it was higher than any that were very successful. I agree that Sony probably knows that the cost hurt them. They seem to have recovered now, though. The PS3 is clearly a better hardware deal than he 360 right now.

GT5: Pro demo, MLB: The Show 2008 (best baseball game this year), and a strong PSN lineup (flOw, super stardust, everyday shooter, pixeljunk monsters, etc). Folklore. The games are there, and third parties have caught up.

I think being think being at the bottom will humble sony and hopefully make them better people.

@Windbane

I agree with you totally, i have the 60GB PS3 bought on launch night here in the UK so obviously the price wasn't that much of a factor for me, otherwise i wouldn't have bought it :D

The games are coming thick and fast, almost every month has a great game lined up for release :D

 Blu-Ray has been profitable for Sony since around October-November