The Playtation 3 continues to be dragged over hot coals by those far more influential than myself. Not only has Alley Insider and a number of analysts ripped a pound of flesh from the Black Box o' Blu-ray, The Wall Street Journal has decided to take a piece of the action too.
According to the article, hope is fading for the PS3 as a "comeback player," with a backfiring pricing strategy and refusal to cut any prices despite the recession making consumers more discerning than usual.
The Journal also picks up the "PS3 has no games" argument and shares it with a wider audience, perpetuating a stigma that is unlikely to go away for the remainder of this generation: "Sony used to have a stable of exclusive games. But in recent years, Microsoft has persuaded most game publishers to release highly anticipated games to it and Sony at the same time."
Once again, some of the criticism is unfair, and some of of it is warranted, but all of it is being read by potential customers who are already scared of making a bad purchase. While Sony continues to dig its heels in and remains bull-headed and arrogant, its very dignity is being undermined.
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11:00 AM on 12.30.2008
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*Runs to MalWart with pockets full of change*
Sony needs to hurry up with God of War 3 and Gran Turismo, Killzone and Resistance may be very good games but they do not have the franchise cred to drum up new interest.
Luxury item spending fell 34% this Christmas. Electronics fell 27%. The American consumer is broke. That is all.
I love my PS3 too, and personally think it's better than the 360. The problem is that Sony really botched up the launch of the system, and in addition to the fact that the console-selling titles are a little lacking, a lot of the time their updates don't concentrate on the gaming portion of the machine.
For example, instead of making an update to let us log into more than one profile at a time, or to let us use more than one headset simultaneously, they instead give us an update to add a pause button to the mini music player that no one uses anyway.
Its not that it has no games, it's that the games are the same as the XBOX360's.
In the beginning, they made the same games 360 released a YEAR prior.
then the catch up and make Resistance 2 and LBP. Both games are okay but are not selling like Halo, Gears2, and Fable 2. (Even if fable did suck IMO)
Anyway, the PS3 showed 'heavy rain' videos a couple of months before they released the PS3... 2 years later and still no 'Heavy Rain'
Its like they have no future ideas, just catch up to xbox360 listed games and JRPG's that suck ass.
@ CypherVR - you have made a grown man piss himself at work.
@ the Golden Avatar - I played my PSP!!! more than my PS3.
C'mon Sony get your shit together and market this beast correctly!!!
Show an entire family playing LBP, putting on silly costumes and making levels together. Show dude and his mates screaming encouragement/support for certain roles during a Resistance 2 co-op match. Rip a page from the Halo 3 playbook and show Old Snake as going on one last mission in MGS4. Remind people that the PS3 is actually the best Blu-ray player available.
The PS3 has plenty going for it. Sony just need to shoe everyone that.
And yeah no games at all so I'm not really playing; MGS4, LBP, Resistance2, Uncharted....etc nope not plaything them at all.
"The PS3 doesn't have as many good exclusives as the Xbox" is fanboy speak for "The PS3 has some exclusives that I can't play anyway, so instead of admitting that I might be missing out on some good games, I'll just bash them to make myself feel more comfortable with purchasing an Xbox, which is currently at Microsoft for repair". Yeah, that was a pretty long sentence.
I purchased the PS3 over the Xbox. The Xbox has some pretty good exclusives such as GoW 2 and Fable 2. But I'm not going to bash them simply because I can't play them (yet, I can always just wait for the PC version). Fanboys are funny like that.
Last time I checked, the PS2, and PSP were both selling well, so there are your lower priced machines. The PS3 is a hisher-end machine and so it costs more. Why is that so hard to figure out? Because Microsoft killed the Xbox years before they should have and rushed out shoddy hardware? Should Sony cripple the PS3 by taking out the harddrive and then start selling a vastly overpriced harddrive as an add on? Should Sony force all its users to make fruity little cartoon characters just so they can play a game? Maybe Sony should make a HD-DVD add on drive?
Don't forget Rachet and Clank!
the ps3 has no games is a dead statement. it is expensive though but after you bought that 2nd 360 you have spent more money on the console than i did for my launch 60 gig ps3, which still works perfect.
sony dropped the ball but its only then when they have tasted defeat that they will push try even harder to regain their position. just waiting for them to get their heads outta their asses but hey, i got a ps3 and i love playing the games. its only gonna be good for those who don't have a triple. except full b/c. but i think a future patch in the future is coming to help that.
the shitty ports of past have now been fixed and show no difference between 360 ports of the same game.
the media is just jumping on a bandwagon to try to sound alike and get into this new gaming society that is their future money.
and i love the under-dogs of anything. end fanboy rant now.
i like both systems, i hate fanboys, so from a fanboy hater's perspective :
360 wins this console generation, hands down. sorry that your mama only bought you a ps3 kids, save your quarters, mow some lawns, and maybe you can get both systems and stop defending your ps3 like it's all that plus chicken, cuz it's not. it just isn't.
Unfortunately, it suffers from the same problem everything PS3-related. Sony isn't doing enough with it. The PSN itself is great. Sony's handling of it is not.
totally agree on the exclusives (at least the good ones)- most of the exclusives are available on pc as well at some point, so why buy a 360?
Numbers don't lie. The PS3's main customer to help regain new buisness and a bigger install base they need to cut the price on that console. 400 dollars is a xbox 360, a controller and a couple of games (maybe even wi-fi). At this point, with the wii's inovative and simple gameplay (and cheaper price) and the xbox 360 year head start and larger exclusives (and cheaper price....getting the theme here) it doesn't MATTER to the average fence-sitting customer about ps3 blu-ray player (which, most customers don't even know exist or CARE to know) or it's current exclusives. And the whole ps3 console is stronger in terms of graphics is now a moot point two times over (360 currently has slightly better looking versions and the wii doesn't need better looking games...just BETTER games).
Sony doesn't need to sell to intranet bloggers like us. We've already made a choice one way or another. They need to convince those wall street/post/sun etc parents or recession-felt customers. They need to know RIGHT NOW that if they plan to invest on anything more than 200 dollars then they'll get there monies worth RIGHT NOW.
I'll even help out the fanboys here. You mean to tell me, honestly and OBJECTIVELY, that if you went and made the 360 have the EXACT same amount of exclusives with the EXACT same amount of games but they keep their respect parts (built in blu-ray and wifi for ps3/ upgradablity for 360) and most importantly keep their price range...you mean to tell me you'd think ps3 could/should/would sell more than the 360??? In these times???
I'm looking forward to the exclusive line-up of PS3 titles in 2009. What about the 360? Halo? Again? Halo: The RTS?
It's very cool and hip to slag off the PS3 these days. But I'm glad I got one only a few months ago.