Funny how you've mocked my conversational skills when you have failed to answer a question I posed twice. So, for the third time, how exactly was the ps2 a failure? And given that the ps3 has now overtaken the 360 in worldwide sales, how was the ps3 a failure?
There you go about sales again. And infact PS3 has roughly half the sales of the PS2 in a similar time frame
What I said:
"They've missed many opportunities in the electronic industry, resisted online and made poor decisions to cpu and gpu architecture in PS2/3"
You missed again what I said. PS3 failures are widley known and I've gone through some of them. PS2 had the same problem but because it was the default console of the time, ie Sega was never in the race due poor mega cd 32x and saturns, xbox came late and not much push, no dev support. Devs got to grip with the difficult PS2 because they had no choice unlike this time around MS got the 360 and devs onboard and did a proper release, Sony's convoluted architecture designs now had a viable alternative.
To repeat again Sony has even admitted the PS3 got many things wrong in the conference, they didn't even have to say really as most of us already know and seen it with the PS2.
One thing that encapsulates the utter failure is the Sony store, 5/6 years after launching of the PS3, the PSN store is a broken stuttery mess and was like this for months. How that store revamp could even pass through testing is beyond me or any industry standard, they even left it on instead of reverting back to the old simple store. What they're struggling with is low resources, incredible mistakes in hardware choices.
PS4 looks to address all that and then some but everything is borrowed and copied becasue they have no clue anymore, latest is copying onlive clips. They may pull it off but Sony has for PS2 and PS3 made very poor hardware decisions, PS2 didn't matter, but PS3 it did. They've resisted online, shown very poor awareness of how the world has changed, a very dinosaur like company, they should've been the ones pushing online instead of resisting it, putting out a smart phone, setting up a decent store way before but they just play catch up, and in a bad way.
We'll see how their cap in hand to an AMD pc box goes. Maybe the people who've made all the mistakes are gone, perhaps we'll see some innovation in OS, functionality and some understanding of modern times.
Many of us see Sony as a past it company, struggling to keep up, Kaz has acknowledged and is well known. Are these people going to be the ones to take console gaming forward through software and hardware designs, who have done nothing but watch the world progress around them. I just see them as a poor middle man, a perfect company for 1990s consoles and TV tech.
In summary, I stated my observation, I would've thought even the most ardent Sony fan could accept PS3 had many failures and a lack of vision of from Sony without me going over the PS3 debacle in incremental steps, giving back story. It's like you just singled out a few words and react and then quote some more with replies not relating to anything. This is not an attack on Sony, I own and bought a PS3, I don't sub to xbox live, I just state Sony aren't the most forward looking company in the last ten years, made many mistakes, I don't see a good track record for the modern age and not the best to lead console, esp for the west since 90% of sales are there now.
I hope they come good and turn around an archaic philosophy
won't be probably till E3
