8 bit wrote:Galvatron628 wrote:But well I guess what do looks matter as long as the system performs. Honestly I have always felt the PS3 was the superior system, but its high price and shoddy on-line play have scared consumers away. That being said the On-line play still needs some work, but its a hell of a lot better than it was when the system was launched, and now at $299 you get a system and a blue-ray player, not too bad. Maybe Activision's threat was actually taken seriously?
Yeah, I read about the Slim and the price drop this morning and questioned my decision for a second about whether or not going with the Xbox 360 was the right decision. All in all though, I know I made the right choice just because the Xbox Live experience is so rubust. Also, more games available as exclusives and arcade downloads. From what I've read about the PS3, it does sound like a very good system, I just think it got to the next-gen table a little too late.
Um...Activision's threat? Never heard anything about that. What was it?
Activision called Sony out and said the games cost more to develop on the PS3 and they aren't making as much profit as they do on Xbox 360 or Wii due to the simple lack of ownership of the PS3. Activision threatened to drop support of the PS3 alltogether if they didn't drop the price. For the record Activision publishes Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, Tony Hawk, and many movie liscensed games such as Transformers, and since they bought Blizzard, they are the biggest publisher out there, so loosing Activision's support would of been the near death of the third party for PS3 and probably would cause other publishers to pull out until Sony had nothing left but its own exlcusive titles.
Sony really didn't get to the Next Gen table too late, they just had a poor launch, On-line play was free but lacking, and most importantly the price was too high. The Initial PS3 offerings were the 20GB model for $499 and 60GB model for $599. The basic version of the PS3 was $100 more than the Xbox 360 Pro from the gate, and the 360 had a year of good proven games already to the overpriced PS3's 20 or so titles it had at launch. There were a lot of Sony fanboys who resisted the PS3 nearly instantly due to the insane price. And to make things worse, other than Resistance: Fall of Man, sony didn't have a whole lot of exclusives until 2008.
Hitting $299 is big, very very big for Sony! BTW for those out there who are on the fence about getting one, but don't want the ugly 120GB model, both the 80 and 160GB models have been slashed $100. Yes the 80GB is $299, and the 160GB with Uncharted is $399.
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