Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
I don’t think much of the PS4 success can be handed to the PS3.
It does speak to Sony’s pure grit, but I don’t think anyone at Sony will ever call the PS3 a success.
I think that PS4 would have failed to capitalise on their opportunity as well as they did if they did not show they cared about their consumers and tried to prove the worth of their console, which IMHO they did as I have tons of titles that show it off well (and in the last 2 years or so many third parties started taking it as lead console and their quality took a nice jump).
No matter if a new generation is coming up or not or if it has already launched, you see SIE not pulling any punches and releasing AAA and AA software for existing HW... it is one differentiating factor for PS home consoles over the last 25 years.
It did serve the corporate imposed mandate of helping to win the Blu-Ray war and it massively reduced the losses the project was taking and the turnaround itself was a success, but compared to PS2’s domination sure it underwhelmed. Still people can look at it fondly for many reasons and can still feel like a success, people like the Xbox One and Spencer MS turnaround and there they went from a draw / slight victory to being massively outsold... still there is positive in it all.
Most of the money was already allocated and spent by the time it was developed, manufactured in high volumes, and shipped for its launch... you could divide the timeline in PS3 pre launch and PS3 post launch money wise and the strategy Sony took to cater for players’ needs and save it.
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