Lol at leo j. The simple answer, its not a mass appeal console. Its elite. Elite is almost never the winner. The console with games for everybody wins.

Its never going to be about the most metacritic scores over 80. Wii sports is in the 70's. Its about which console covers the desires of the widest spread of population. PSX and 2 had games for toddlers as well as Devil May Cry. Get it? If you have only AAA games on a console it can't win. It needs games for all.

And has a 82% on Rotten Tomatoes/7.4 aggregate ranking. IMDB has it at 7.2 between 188,000 votes.

Really depends on how the consumer values the combination of those features.  Clearly the consumer feels the ps3 is overpriced. 

And stop saying mrstickball is trolling for giving his opinion.

$ony screwed up because when they launched a console at $500/$600 (with $500 barely available) they launched for the Hardcore market only because of the price. This may have worked if they had launched a year before the competitors, but they didnt. Since the 360 had already launched and established a base with hardcore gamers and had titles for not only the hardcore when the PS3 launched this made the competition that much tougher. Thrown in the Wii as the casual juggernaut and all that was left was the hardest of the hardcore and the $ony console or no console crowd.

The PS3 has not been able to break past that because it just hasnt had any chance to pass the 360 in price nor quantity of quality titles and it hasnt been able to pass the Wii for the casual audience.

The only good thing i see about everything that has happen to sony is that if not even the PS brand could sell at US$600.00 ( ups sorry US$599.99) no one will ever try that again, for eternity consoles will launch at around 300-400( or its equivalent value in the future).

What i really don't like about this is that competition is good but M$ is evil when competing and they may be planning to take sony out of the market and then Nintendo, and once that happens we will play what they want for the price they want.

What is the number one rule of business. Give the customer what they want. What is the second rule of business. It is ten times cheaper to keep the customer you have then to convince a customer you do not. What is the third rule of business follow the first two rules, and find out how you can profit by following the first two rules.

Somewhere along the line Sony forgot these three cardinal rules. Instead they began to view consumers as investors, expendable, and as assets to be used. Sony has the poorest of mindsets when it comes to gaming. You serve the customer. The customer does not serve you. You do not view customers as something you can do without. Customers are not pawns in your machinations. Which also justified their lying to customers, and abusing their trust.

You cannot break the three cardinal rules and expect to have your product be the most prized on the market. Yes a sucker is born every minute, and there are those blind to the abuse they are enduring. However the real problem for Sony starts with a shitty mindset. The view consumers with disdain, and treat them with no respect. That is how they could build a machine that did not appeal to them. They turned their backs on customer service it is as simple as that.

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I don't think it's just the price. The competition from MSFT is there as well. A 600$ PS3 would sell alot better without the X360 in the market.

Yeah, but 249-299$/€ price would have basically killed the X360 so it is because of price.  Sony just had so stupid strategy.

 This is exactly right.