Dragonborn
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I disagree. The list of their lies was long. Pushing Blu-Ray down everyones throats was as silly as mandatory Kinect. Dem royalties. We had to suffer through that useless Blu-Ray Versus HD-DVD war.
Playstation Home, the long list of horrible overhyped games, Sixaxis, PSN being broken beyond belief, Phil Harrison touting PS3 outselling 360 even with no games, crazy Ken calling the competition Xbox 1,5.
Come the hell on. Watch the E3 2006 recap and watch the deceit. It was a long con. Jesus christ.
I don't disagree. I've said before that they deserved every bit of backlash they got sn2d it was for the better. Had everyone taken it quietely, they would have tried the same with the PS4
All I'm saying is that, at the time, the hardware provided excellent value for me and for anyone looking to get into bluray and ultimately, I'm glad they went with it since without Bluray we may not have gotten some of the amazing games we got later in its life cycle
Would you say a situation where a system is supposedly a very good value, but also struggles to sell relative to its only two competitors during the window of its life where the justification for that "value" was meaningful suggests something about that line of thinking?
Yup, it suggested bluray wasnt as big a deal and in fact it never caught on like DVD.
I'm speaking mostly for myself here, and for me (I really wanted a bluray player at the time, it blew my mind) it was a good value.
I won't say that they didn't screw up bad, since they absolutely did, but at the same time I'm glad they didn't stick to DVD. It's hard to decide how to feel about it.
Without bluray some of the later games may not have been possible or perhaps not as great. I don't know, in hindsight it was a terrible business decision but perhaps not the worst thing for games. It's hard to say
Ultimately, once Sony fixed the issues it did well, but that doesn't mean it had a very rocky first year.