It's hard to believe, but we're nearly five years detached from PlayStation 3's lackluster launch in November of 2006. Hot off of the record-breaking success of the PlayStation 2, PS3 models were boldly (and stupidly) priced at between $500 and $600, up to twice the PS2's launch price in 2000. Even though gamers loved their PS2s in the generation past, things weren't going well for the PS3 for several years, mainly due to its high cost-of-entry and its lack of compelling titles.
But since 2006, Sony's situation has solidified greatly, and the company seems to have learned a great deal about what it did wrong with PlayStation 3. Until a week ago, its Blu-ray-playing console cost a mere $300, half of what it cost only a few years prior. And its library of games hasn't only gotten stronger, but much stronger. With a staggering amount of exclusives when compared to its HD competition, Sony began making a strong case for why its system is a must-have choice for the hardcore gamer, both in terms of value and in terms of sheer amount of games that can only be played on PlayStation 3...
It's been officially over 2,500 days since The Elder Scrolls 6 was revealed, and fans are still waiting for more than a logo and a mountain range.
It will come out in another 1000-2000 days or so. I’d rather they remake Morrowind. After they added quest arrows, sprint button, making stats lesser and the big nerfs to spells Elder Scrolls has been too simplified. They could change that with ES6 but I don’t have much faith in modern Bethesda. I would love to be wrong
Do not miss the Final Fantasy IX lottery commemorating its 25th anniversary and see the new merch release by Square Enix.
I’m hoping Xbox Showcase will be where the Remake gets announced… freaking all this stuff with FF9’s anniversary and still nothing on the Remake…
AnerdzLife ranks the main line Resident Evil games
if it didnt then sony wouldnt have done it. You figure they have goals to meet and if it aint selling then you aint making your goals.
Remember, they have a strong lineage to live up to. Not that it would kill them but to not even match what the ps1 did is somewhat disheartening.
MS passed what they did on the original xbox and sony passed up the ps1 with the ps2. No doubt they want to do the same with the ps3. The old phrase "price is no object" is a lie. Price IS an object.
Yes it does matter.
The lower the price, the wider the market.
matters if u dont already own one other than that not really.
If you are a 360 owner without Blu-ray and would like to catch up on some great series like Uncharted and God of War then I think it's a good deal. A drop to $199 would have been earth shattering though.
There are still only about 20 great exclusives though (and most people wont like all the exclusives because they cater to different tastes), so if somebody already owns a 360 or gaming PC for multiplats then £175 is a lot.
But more people need to own PS3s and the price drop will do that; Sony are friendly to developers and don't charge for multiplayer and that keeps gaming pure, a future with paid peer to peer multiplayer is just stupid and I hope microsoft don't do that with their next console.
The PS2 and xbox1 had thousands of exclusives. Even the 360 only has a handful of great exclusives, and M$ butchered most of the good exclusive series on it anyway.
If Sony are wanting to get a lot of people who currently own 360s to buy a ps3, the price will still be too high for most people.
Second hand purchases will be far more likely, will it ever be impossible to find a second hand one? No, but there will be some Christmas gift purchase that probably won't be second hand.
Overall, I don't think they are going to reach the kind of figures that the ps1 and ps2 sold because they did too poorely at the start of the generation and the whole multiplat trend these days has harmed them quite a lot; hence why they are working on a lot of first party games.
The console industry these days is broken. The manufacturers have to make their own market and the developers are caught up in the middle.