Ken Kutaragi's fingerprints have nearly faded completely. His farcically ambitious PlayStation 3 hardware design, finalised six years ago, left Sony with the preposterous task of pitching a high-end console at £425 and yet still make a loss on each sale.
Fortunately, or not, the loss-making system didn't exactly sell spectacularly at first. Sony's curse of cost had repelled consumers. The company could huff and puff all it wanted; even the most fanatical PS3 fan couldn't part with £500 for a new console and game.
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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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
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.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"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.
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?
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.
I think for every two steps forward (cross-buy, cross-play, Vita controller, new IPs, hardware redesign) they take one step back (Linux craziness, PSN hack, ridiculous PSOne NA Vita rollout, advertising, etc.). But they also put out some pretty killer games and seem committed to lowering the price, making it a more affordable piece of kit. With PS+ coming to Vita and NOT having to pay twice, I'm proud to own 2 PS3s and a Vita.
I'm confused... what is the curse?
It's not the selling hardware at a profit, they've been doing that since 2009 and have said so. If it's the cell architecture, that's not done either until PS4 is announced.
Is Kutaragi the curse?
I'm confused.
I wonder how many hardware companies wish their best year was on par with the PS3's worst year.
Console pricing. It's all just numberwang to me.