Re: what has happened

On Jul 19, 4:16 pm, "Tom" <no...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Jul 16, 1:18 pm, "Tom" <no...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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khee mao <a...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
call it crazy if you want, but it's pretty obvious to me that Sony was
visionary with the PS3.

Perhaps, but being a visionary doesn't always translate into being a
good
product.

Witness The Apple Lisa, or perhaps The Apple Newton.

In the case of the PS3, people wanted a game console.  What they got
from
Sony was essentially a blu-ray player and a request to take sides in
the
next-gen DVD format war.  On the gaming side, Sony made a lot of
mis-steps
with the PS3, and even today it's still racing to catch up.

Then there's things like Home.  I still don't know what vision is
there.
Maybe I just don't get it.

--
It's not broken.  It's...advanced.

I don't think the PS3 is any longer in catch up mode as far as the
console
games go. The PS3 has a nice library now, and if you go by the aggregate
reviewer scores by many sites, their exclusives have scored higher on
average than the 360's have over the past few years. The PS3's attach
rate
is over 7 now, and that is very respectable.

Catch up as in sales of both hardware and software...

Well, outside the past few weeks where the 360 hardware has been outselling
the PS3 worldwide by a decent margin, the PS3's software has been selling
very well. If you go by VGChartz, the PS3 only fell behind in weekly
software sales to the 360 by just over 100K. Considering the install base
favors the 360 by 5m+, that isn't too shabby. But it still has a long ways
to go to catch up in total sales in which the PS3 is nearly 110m behind.- Hide quoted text -

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Yeah singularity was a good rental..oh wait


BAH!!!
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