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Rumble My Joystick: What Does the Playstation 3 Really Need?

Back at E3 of 2005, Sony made grand promises for the Playstation 3. Jack Tretton himself said they were to "Under promise and over deliver". I look back at that and think, "What a crock". Xbox Live is no doubt ahead of the Playstation Network, no matter how many people wish to fight it. It's a very integrated service that's easy to use, and boasts features that the Playstation 3, frankly should have had from the start. Sony has been playing catch up since the release of the PS3 and it's beginning to really bother me.

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chaosatom5612d ago (Edited 5612d ago )

It was price cut, then games, new ps store, video store, then in game messaging, then home, then price cut.

I am sure sony is working on all the things and some new things too. They know people wanted communication from games but I guess they are still busy with home.

Sarcasm5611d ago

The PS3 could do everything and beyond and people will still hate it.

Yet the company that offers one of the worst hardware in console history gets free passes like Britney Spears.

Captain Tuttle5611d ago (Edited 5611d ago )

That "free pass" cost them more than a billion dollars.

MNicholas5611d ago (Edited 5611d ago )

are coming out of the closet. It's an embarrassing sight, to say the least. Bitter about Dreamcast, bitter about HD-DVD and therefore staunchly anti-sony, these people come and go as the news changes.

Here's the reality:

The "magic" $199 pricepoint is the last chance Microsoft had to take over the market once and for all. $199 is said to be the price at which a product goes from being an exclusive niche item to a mass market product that almost anyone can afford. Perhaps the Wii has shown that nowadays that magic price is $249. Still, Microsoft not only undercut the Mii in price, they even copied the Mii concept, yet the Wii, which has had no price-cut since launch is outselling it 2:1. In otherwords, the 360 has already failed. If it cannot take over the market at $199, it's not going to do it $179, $149, $129 or $99.

We saw what happened with the GameCube and Dreamcast. If it doesnt sell well at $199, it won't sell well when you drop the price further.

For car buffs, think of Wii vs 360 as a Toyota Prius (Wii) outselling a cheaper but faster car (Ford Mustang) but where Ford is trying to sell the Mustang as both as sports car and an eco mobile. Microsoft's got to get their head out of their own asses. They are panicking and have no clue what to do next so they are trying everything in a half-hearted way. The netflix integration sucks. The Mii-copys suck. There is no genuine high-bitrate HD video playback (HD-DVD is extinct). They've run out of options and they know it.

As for the PS3, no one expects the $399 console to sell like hotcakes. The much cheaper Ford Mustang (360) sells far more than the more costly Nissan GT-R (PS3) despite the fact that the GT-R has all the bells and whistles. However, if the GT-R was the same price as the Mustang, is there any doubt that it would sell more? Let's keep things in perspective.

The PS3 is doing fine. At $399 it would be shocking if it had higher sales than what it does. Still it managed to do much better than last year.

The only console in trouble is the 360. Despite massive price-cuts and a complete redesign of the interface it's still way behind in average annual sales compared to the other two consoles.

For those knee-jerk disagrees, here are the average annual sales:

Wii: 21M (astonishing!)
PS3: 9M (excellent considering the premium price!)
360: 8.3M

Despite having one full year to itself with no competitors, despite being much cheaper than the PS3, and now, much cheaper than the Wii (once you get to mass-market prices even $20, let alone $50, is a lot), the 360 is dead last. By the end of 2009, given the $199 price, it should be able to claw it's way past the PS3 in average annual sales as long as the PS3 doesn't get any major price-cuts which would, of course, boost PS3 sales. The 360 might even cross 10M/year by the end of 2009. That's still far behind the Wii which will have sold over 60M by the end of the 2009.

ChampIDC5611d ago

How does MS get a free pass for making crappy hardware? It gets bashed for the RRoD all the time.

hfaze5611d ago

Couldn't have said it better myself... +bubbles

evrfighter5611d ago

Nicholas, a well thought out comment. However that argument would have had more weight if the arcade bundle had been out longer than a few months.

Your writing as if the 360 has been on sale at the $199 price point for awhile. it's only been a couple of months dude. You weren't expecting an overnight shift of console dominance were you?

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aiphanes5612d ago

I know there are hate xbox 360 articles....but the depths that fanboys go to try and hate the awesomeness that is playstation it beyond me...little do they know they are only hyping the PS3 even more.

Whoa Its Wes5612d ago

How is it a hate article?

It's stating the obvious and things that could be improved upon

Captain Tuttle5611d ago

Don't let it get to you...the majority of posters on N4G are particularly sensitive these days.
Have a bubble.

Whoa Its Wes5611d ago

Thanks for the bubble, here's one for you too.

Cyber Gamer5612d ago

nothing in this world is perfect not even your xbox 360 or even when xbox 720 comes out and no one is perfect and never will be and why do we allway's see these stupid article am a gamer and i come to n4g for news about games not this crap lol and if your a true gamer u will no what am talking about and to the rest psn is free stop complaining and move along lol

Stereojet5611d ago

Here we go again....

The fanboys in this generation of games are a joke!

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7 Deserving Games That Never Got Backward Compatibility

Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga1d 7h ago (Edited 1d 7h ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow2d ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo1821d 6h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie20h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow19h ago(Edited 19h ago)

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere11h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin17h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere11h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Hereandthere11h ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

OtterX1d 9h ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

RNTody1d 9h ago (Edited 1d 9h ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno1d 8h ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Sheppard7t31d 6h ago

How did Sony kill the series?

Inverno1d 6h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii16h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno15h ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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