Originally Posted by
Captain Wrong
Originally Posted by
Anthony1
That's bullshit. That isn't the reason they lost. The reason they lost is because Sony has millions upon millions of consumers totally brainwashed into buying whatever piece of technology they bring out.
It's always Sony has people brainwashed. Never do people consider that maybe, just maybe, Sony did something right that everyone else continues to do wrong.
What exactly did Sony do right?
1. They released a console that was supposed to be the alpha and the omega, with it's "Emotion Engine" and all that crap, and it actually is one of the worst designed systems in History. It doesn't have enough video ram to do progressive scan games, so it took years and years before we actually started seeing any progressive scan games. While the Dreamcast, a console supposedly vastly inferior, had 95 percent of it's library progressive scan. It can't do Dolby Digital 5.1 in the game, while the XBOX has no problem with that. During the launch and the early period of the system, it was jaggies in every game. The system just wasn't designed very good plain and simple.
2. When they launched, the launch lineup was abysmal at best. SSX, Madden and Smugglers Run were the only decent games available.
3. They had horrible hardware shortages during the launch and first 6 months of availability.
4. All during the entire life of the PS2 there has been problems with the systems breaking and needing repair.
The reality is that the PS2 was a total dissaster and ended up succeding DESPITE all of Sony's terrible blunders.
Why did it succed?
1. Because it had the name Sony on it, and it had the name Playstation on it, and for whatever reason it had that cool factor because of that.
2. Because the PS1 had so thouroughly dominated the 32/64 bit wars, it had every developer and their brother making games for it. It had all the best developers in Japan and Europe and the U.S. making games for it, because it was expected to be the dominant platform.
3. Money - Sony had heaps and heaps of money that they could use to market the system and buy exclusive windows on key games. The Grand Theft Auto exclusivity, and the E.A. Sports only online on PS2 exclusivity basically ensured that the PS2 would be the dominant platform.
If you really look at it, the PS2 is the dominant platform, in spite of the bad engineering of the system, the horrible launch lineup, the hardware shortages and the terrible reliability of the hardware.