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Originally Posted by CoreyvsWorld
Well if its in the spirt of debating than i guess thats alright. To be honest i agree that i think sony messed up with the ps3. They didnt take into consideration the gamer or the developer at all. Its really not that bad though, I own one as long as well as a wii and an xbox360. My ps3 has never crashed or died and i've played well over 3 hours at a time. My ps3 plays every game (ps3, ps2, ps1, not that i've tried every game, but all my games play, and i've played quite a few.) If they dropped the price, and offered more exclusive titles then it would be sony ftw.
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Yeah, my 360 locks up once in a great while as well, so I feel you there, but it's not a big issue.
As for backward compat, i'm glad Sony got that fixed. I don't believe backward compat to be a big issue though, since I haven't touched an Xbox1 game since I got my 360, even though all the Xbox1 games I own do play in my 360.
You hit the nail on the head though. Sony is charging far too much for the PS3 when considering the 360 has the superior graphics processor.
People don't care about HD video playback in the masses yet, so I believe Sony screwed themselves by forcing bluRay on their buyers which in turn required Sony to charge more for their PS3. Instead, Sony should have been focusing on what current gen gamers really want, an Online experience and some innovation. Sony really needs to get on the ball there.
Sony's Advertising is all wrong as well. It has been proven time and time again that people in the masses, don't want a PC replacement hooked up to their livingroom TV. Sony is making the mistake 3DO, CDi, and many others have made in this area by advertising their gaming systems as a central entertainment hub, or a PC alternative.
Remove the R&D Sony spent on BluRay and how they had to do a quick fix for the design problems with the PS3(no set GPU till the last minute), and put a DVD player in the PS3 instead, and the cost would be well within reach, if not the same as the 360. This alone would have made a huge different. People would have picked up their trusty "PlayStation" brand name, because the hardware advantages the 360 has over the PS3 are minimal, and the average buyer could give 2 shits about how hard it is to program for the PS3, as long as the games were there.
Which brings us to the games. Why has Sony allowed MS to take near all of their exclusives? Now Microsoft has mounted a Massive exclusive line up of their own, as well as securing multi-platform releases that used to be PS3 exclusives. Sony should have never let that happen.
Now, like with the original PlayStation, killing off what was then the big gaming name brands, Sega, and nearly doing the same to Nintendo, now Sony is the one watching their shiny PlayStation household name brand slowly fade. The initial rush of PS3 purchases was a sign of that name brand holding true, but now with PS3s stacking up on shelves, we're seeing what the masses think, and the masses aren't happy with current gen prices.
Nintendo DS and now the WII are selling out everywhere like mad, having by far the greatest launch of any console ever, the greatest second and third months of any console ever. The Masses have spoken, and what they want are lower prices, and more fun. Wii has sold more consoles in less than 3 months than the PS2 sold in 9. Is it because of the insane graphics of the Wii? The High Def gaming? The High Def movie player? No, the wii doesn't have high def, it barely has better graphics than the Game Cube in some cases, and it has NO movie player.
The Masses have spoken, and what they have said, not even I would have guessed, being a "360 will win this round" guy, heh.
Nice to see the little guy clawing his way back to the top. Big ups to Nintendo.(Even if I was a Sega Fanboy as a kid :))