karlyboo
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- 14 Nov 2007
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Yes, but that is also Sony's weakness. They have been toting their system a cheap Blu-ray player instead of a gaming machine. This has helped contribute to a lack of sales. With all the latest data, it has been sighted that gamers care more about games than watching moves on their console. Granted, it looks like Blu-ray will win the new format war on movies, but don't expect people to be up in arms until it becomes the new standard for a few years. Until that point is reached, Sony better start selling their system as a gaming machine, and not a media machine if they want to place first in the end of this console war.
-Doc
Most definitely true. Sony made a grave marketing error in trying to promote the PS3 as the uber-media-hub-type-thing, rather than concentrating on building up their installed user base. I'm still not entirely clear on why they ran with that concept; I love my PS3 to bit but it is most definitely a games console first and foremost.
On a side-note, TBH I think first place has already been lost to the Wii pretty much permanently. I don't care for the console particularly (I find it highly repetitive and generally weak as anything other than a 5 minute laugh with mates at a party, and as such not worth the £200 it goes for here) but it's hard to compete with something that's cheap, accessible (in terms of human-computer interaction) and currently riding a huge wave of 'trendy'.