The 10 Reasons that Sony messed up with the PS3

[wraggster]

via lunabeam comes the 10 listings of how Sony messed up with the PS3 sofar:

10 - The "Spiderman" font. Why choose a font that already stands for something? It only serves to distract the gamer and make him/her think about Spiderman when they should be thinking about the PS3. On another note, I'm very excited about this week's debut of Spider-Man 3. See, I'm already thinking of something that's not the PS3 by just mentioning the font. My spidey senses are tingling...in a bad way.

9 - Lack of force feedback (vibration) in the controller. Much was made about Sony's decision to emulate the Wii's tilt motion controls. Whether or not you think Sony ripped it off is beside the point. The fact that they couldn't figure out how to get vibration and motion control into the controller, and then, as cover, came out and said vibration is overrated and not necessary, really rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

8 - Lack of HD cables. Yet another poor decision by Sony who ostensibly claimed that the true HD buff would want to purchase their own cables when it seems Sony was just too cheap to throw in the very cables that would make the PS3's highly touted HD visuals come to life. This is an example of how being cheap actually ended up costing Sony money.

7 - Underestimating the Wii. Sony should have been more prepared for a battle for the hearts and minds of gamers, which Nintendo has definitely won. The $250 Wii should have been on Sony's radar as a potential threat, but their hubris allowed them to ignore it and put it down. Sony, therefore, effectively put down the gamers who would buy a Wii, thus making many of us not want to buy a PS3, just out of principle.

6 - The constant putting down of the customer. Number 7 leads into this one. Sony, throughout much of last year, continually put down their customers, saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, that they should shut up about the price and stop complaining. The PS3 is a good value, they constantly reiterated. Then, there are a variety of classic quotes including one referring to US gamers as "cheap".

5 - Coming out with two versions. A good deal of talk prior to the launch dealt with what console had what. Card reader? 20GB or 60GB HDD? Why confuse the buyer? Why distract the buyer? And, to the average person, $500 and $600 are the same thing: both prices are prohibitively expensive. There's a reason why the 20GB version was discontinued.

4 - No plan for online play at launch. Playstation "Home" was announced last month, three months after launch. You know, you can tout your online gaming capabilities all you want, but if you don't have a plan at launch, then one of your key features is really just a lie, isn't it?

3 - No "must have" games at launch. Console launch lineups are notoriously sparse and many bad games can be forgiven, but the Playstation 3's launch lineup was one of the worst to date. "Resistance Fall of Man" was the only semi-hit and most of the remainder of the games were ports of older games. Compare that to the 360's Perfect Dark Zero, Call of Duty 2, Kameo: Elements of Power, and Project Gotham Racing 3 and the Wii's Zelda: Twilight Princess and Wii Sports.

2 - Blu-Ray. Who cares about Blu-Ray? My guess is about 73 people. Okay, okay, I know it's slightly more than that...like 82. My point is that videophiles care about Blu-Ray. That was who bought the launch PS3s, not gamers. This fact escaped Sony and was a fundamental error. Gamers needed to have been the focus, not the living room entertainment crowd. To tell you the truth, I don't care if my game comes on Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, DVD, CD, or cardboard. A good game is a good game and to tie Sony's hopes for the adoption of Blu-Ray to the PS3 was, and is, a disservice to gamers.

1 - Price. $600 for a console? Even if it was gold-plated, dusted with saffron, and served caviar out of its disc tray I still wouldn't pay $600 for a console. Again, gamers are a lot smarter than Sony gives them credit for. We all know that the price will drop between year one and year two, which is about the same time that some decent games will be out for it. In the meantime, we'll all continue to play our PS2s, Wiis, and 360s until there is a compelling game and a price break.

[ricki_b]

Man they crammed in some rubbish to fill that list up.

[kaffie]

Man they crammed in some rubbish to fill that list up.

I agree.

Although I have my own yardstick for buying any console and the PS3 is yet to meet it. Its called the "killer app."

[ricki_b]

I aint bought one either, but i will do.

The only thing stopping me is the price, not that I cant, I just wont.

[Triv1um]

Like I've said in practicly every ps3 thread.

The price aint too bad for what you get.

Anyway, that is the worst list ever.

Moaning about the font, what the fork?

[Justise]

Add the facts that:

4.Their ultimate console does not have enough RAM to support its power. As a result, the games have beter graphicks in X360!

3.Their disk Drive is not fast enough! This means that there will be lots of loading times! When they asked Sonys representative about this isue, he answered: "There is always the ability to load the game in PS3s hard drive, but dont wory! I'm sure the game companies will found a way to make the loading Backroud while you are playing the game". (notice that there is not enough Ram in the console).

2.The console is to complicated. The game developers have started to abandon their contracts whith Sony since "its not profitable to create games in such a complicate console". Sony have allready lost almost all of their exclusive titles!

1.They does not respect their customers! Especialy the Europeans! It is a fact that europe was receaving only the 1/3 of the games that was beeng released in Amerika, whith crazy prices and delays*! When Sonys representative was asked to make a comment about the 4 months delay of the PS3 to be released to Europe, he sead: "Everything is OK. Actualy this delay has helped the PS3 to make beter sales in Europe" (notice that we are impatient gamers and not Sonys Share holders). My friend boght a PS3 from Japan in half price!

*Notes abou game releases in europe.
The very first "Tales of..." tittle that has been released in europe for a sonys console is "Tales of Eternia" for PSP!
The very first "Dragon Quest" was "Dragon Quest 8 'JotCK"
Europe has reseave only the second episode of "Xenosaga". The first and the third ones are still missing. Thats why it has made Crap sales in europe!
Kingdome hearts 2, Final Fantasy X & XII and Dragon Quest came whith a 6 months delay!

So Now the reasons are 14!

[celtictiger]

Hi guys , first post . thinking of buying a ps3 gamepad controller for pes6 (pc version) but will it work together , anyone any ideas and if so what do I need to get it going cheers .

[**1_Man_Matrix**]

It's Official.

The most whingey people on earth, are the one's that don't own PS3's.

Like shut up already aye, I can name the 10 worst problems with the 360 and the Wii in about 30 seconds, so it's all relelvant.
Sony has screwed its customers a number of times, heck I'm an Aussie, so if anyone knows about painful launch delays for everything it's me, but just drop it already.

I bought a 60GB PS3, and I couldn't be happier with my purchase. I saved and saved all my money for months, skipped the 360, skipped the Wii (Nothing against them, I just wanted the PS3), and I finally bought it home and plugged it in and haven't thought a single negative thing about it.

So could we stop knocking it already? I'm one extremely satisfied customer, and the only purchase I have ever made that's made me happier was my PSP (I expected the PS3 to 'wow' me, but the PSP really surprised me... RIIIIDGE RACER blew my socks off when I first booted the thing up).

So let it go, or give the damn 360 and Wii a knock for a change.

[DPyro]

PS3 easier than PS2 to work with.

[Shadowblind]

10. I've been wondering the same thing...

9. My main put-off from the controller, besides its horridly disgusting set-up.

8. Really, doesn't matter to me.

7. Sony's biggest mistake. Aboslutely convinced they've got this thing down pat and the Wii blows straight through the PS3 like a rocket. Eh tu, $ony?

6. The reason I dispise Sony to they're core. They don't care about the customer. They care about the money.

5. A big WTF ran through my head here. I don't care how many versions they send out. If there are none under $400 they can blow it.

4. I didn't know this, but it sounds like poor judgement.

3. This is why I really didn't want the PS3 at launch. Or now. Or tommarow. Come to think of it...

2. If only Sony had common sense this could have been avoided. I don't care to pay $300 so I can have a dang Blu-Ray player that I'll never use. I'd rather buy a $300 console that I'll occasionally use.

1. Cheapa$$ $ony. Nothing could have excused this. Targeting only the wealthy and well off and never the middle-class or below. Disgusting...

If only they made the PS3 more like the PS2.