Why would it never get a reduction in price? Hardware gets cheaper all the time. That alone makes me doubt your entire comment, I honestly can't see how that can seem like a remotely accurate statement.
Sony got a serious humbling with its original release, and is working to fix it (besides the ridiculously awful PS3 Home) while Microsoft's strategy was to position their console so it didn't have any competition. This worked great, at the time, but is leaving it with increasingly obsolete hardware with a well-deserved reputation for flakiness.
Sony's online gaming is indeed worse, but not hugely, and most people really don't care about that. The vast majority of gamers never go online. Ever. I think I've done it maybe twice, and I'm practically their target audience.
The PS3 is technically superior, and Sony's demonstrated their ability to dominate in the long haul before (see the PS1 and the PS2, both of which were "overpriced" on release but dominating by the time they left the market.) Sony designs damn good hardware, and I don't believe we're yet at the point where sheer graphical horsepower no longer matters.
On top of that, there's the Blu-Ray factor. HD-DVD is dead and buried. There are a significant number of people buying Blu-Ray players, and a significant number of people buying game consoles, and a significant amount of overlap. That means people buying PS3s.
I don't see anything exciting coming out of the Microsoft camp - they released a new dashboard, some people like it, some people hate it, but it's not really exciting in any way. They're releasing the same old games with the same old mechanics. Sony, on the other hand, is starting to push some more interesting stuff, like Little Big Planet and Noby Noby Boy.
Speaking of games, the only major franchises that Microsoft owns are Halo, Gears of War, and Mass Effect. Three (very good) shooters, one first-person and two third-person. Almost every other highly-rated game for the XBox is also available on the PS3. And they look better.
The XBox wins on multiplayer shooters. Nintendo has the (huge) casual gaming market. The PS3 picks up everything else. I think the PS3 is, in the long term, in a much better position at this point than the XBox, and besides the teenager/early-20s male-gamer-who-wants-to-blow-his-friends-up market (which is smaller than you'd expect), going to have much more notable games.
(As long as they get off their asses and pick up Braid already.)
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Date: 2009-01-02 04:13 pm (UTC)Sony got a serious humbling with its original release, and is working to fix it (besides the ridiculously awful PS3 Home) while Microsoft's strategy was to position their console so it didn't have any competition. This worked great, at the time, but is leaving it with increasingly obsolete hardware with a well-deserved reputation for flakiness.
Sony's online gaming is indeed worse, but not hugely, and most people really don't care about that. The vast majority of gamers never go online. Ever. I think I've done it maybe twice, and I'm practically their target audience.
The PS3 is technically superior, and Sony's demonstrated their ability to dominate in the long haul before (see the PS1 and the PS2, both of which were "overpriced" on release but dominating by the time they left the market.) Sony designs damn good hardware, and I don't believe we're yet at the point where sheer graphical horsepower no longer matters.
On top of that, there's the Blu-Ray factor. HD-DVD is dead and buried. There are a significant number of people buying Blu-Ray players, and a significant number of people buying game consoles, and a significant amount of overlap. That means people buying PS3s.
I don't see anything exciting coming out of the Microsoft camp - they released a new dashboard, some people like it, some people hate it, but it's not really exciting in any way. They're releasing the same old games with the same old mechanics. Sony, on the other hand, is starting to push some more interesting stuff, like Little Big Planet and Noby Noby Boy.
Speaking of games, the only major franchises that Microsoft owns are Halo, Gears of War, and Mass Effect. Three (very good) shooters, one first-person and two third-person. Almost every other highly-rated game for the XBox is also available on the PS3. And they look better.
The XBox wins on multiplayer shooters. Nintendo has the (huge) casual gaming market. The PS3 picks up everything else. I think the PS3 is, in the long term, in a much better position at this point than the XBox, and besides the teenager/early-20s male-gamer-who-wants-to-blow-his-friends-up market (which is smaller than you'd expect), going to have much more notable games.
(As long as they get off their asses and pick up Braid already.)