[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]
[QUOTE="Darth_DuMas"]
People complained about the price, but no one ever complained about b/c. It was Sony who made up the excuses for taking it out, because they desperately needed to make cuts when they realised no one was buying the system at their launch price. Its taken them a long time to work out how to drop the price and to be fair they are still struggling to do so.
Sony said people bought a PS3 for PS3 games, but their wasn't a big library for quite a while. Some even say Sony took out b/c to promote PS3 software sales because they were originally so poor, and if your losing money on hardware and not making any on software, somethings got to give.
This actually makes sense, if they needed to curb PS2 popularity to make way for the PS3 to start some early gains, but then that wouldn't explain why they tried other methods of PS2 b/c before abandoning it.
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On a completely unrelated not the original also played SACDs which was dropped.
Darth_DuMas
I seem to remember tons of posts saying BC was not needed back before the non-bc models were announced. Sure, most of them were just DC from 360 supporters in response to ps3's BC crushing 360's, but it doesn't change the fact that people said it.Considering people weren't talking about the PS3, it does matter. The PS3 needed it early on more so, to make up for a lack of games, but even now it can be widely regarded as one of the best game libraries on a console. So it is a shame that they could not have kept it.
Maybe it was a double standard, but the Xbox game library was not as needed or as desirable on the 360 as the PS2s was (or is) for the PS3.
Out of the Wii, 360 and PS3. b/c for the PS3 is the most desirable by far and away.
It was a decision maker for me getting a PS3 a while ago. Even now considering how slim the differences are between the PS3 and 360 in terms of game libraries, there isn't a lot else that makes think another console is worth it for me right now.
You keep sayin early on they didnt have ps3 games to support the ps3 but the ps3 had bc back then. You talking like there is no bc ps3. Yes people complained about the price and not bc but what else was sony gonna take off to lower the price?
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