A lot of people called them arrogant when Sony said the PS3 would cost $600. But Sony has more vision than the fanboys. If the ps3 was cheap like the 360, then Move would not have worked on it. This is because the 360 is maxed out already, and devlopers are still discovering the hidden power of the PS3.
Sony also had the foresight to put in Blu Ray. Fanboys said there were no benefits. Sony proved them wrong in 2009 with 2 Megaton releases. Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 could not have happened without Blu Ray. There is no way those visuals would fit on a single DVD.
civic_misfit
I just want to get this straight.
So Sony decided to launch a console that would lose them hundreds of dollars with each unit, a situation that was only rectified last month, four years into the PS3's lifespan, in order to take advantage of a technology that Sony was initially skeptical would ever catch on, and only began thinking about developing a prototype for two years after they released their console, and in order to tap an ephemeral hidden power which, as of yet, has given the PS3 no concrete performance advantage over the 360 in most major multiplats, and has lost their edge over casual games and non-gamers they failed to retain from the PS2 to the Wii.
Oh, and to take advantage of a sluggish Blu-ray uptake still hampered by HDTV adoption, which it looks like it might never have its day in the sun due to digital distribution superceding it.
Sony has turned their fortunes around since launch remarkably, yes, but please don't pretend like this is all part of some master plan. They made some serious errors in the past few years, were humbled, and will be a better competitor for it.
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