StateofMajora
Banned
This is something I’ve thought about recently, and as we all know the ps3 ended up doing extremely well but had a horrible start. My thinking is the ps2 was still selling highly, and they still had a few big games like god of war 2 in 2007.
I just view the ps3 as somewhat of a missed opportunity ; blu ray for large game capacity, powerful CPU but weak graphics (relatively) and hampered by low ram / no edram. Developers had very poor results initially and complained the entire generation. First party developers did amazingly, but you have to wonder what could have been.
Launching in 2007 with a better gpu and a bit more memory (say 768mb at least) with a much better games lineup could have justified a higher price and had much better results in consumer mindshare early on. No bayonetta/the darkness/30fps ea sports woes.
Do you think it would have been a good idea, or even more expensive for Sony with not much market benefit? The other thing is, I wonder if MS would launch a 360 successor sooner or if they’d want to keep recouping costs as well.
Thoughts?
I just view the ps3 as somewhat of a missed opportunity ; blu ray for large game capacity, powerful CPU but weak graphics (relatively) and hampered by low ram / no edram. Developers had very poor results initially and complained the entire generation. First party developers did amazingly, but you have to wonder what could have been.
Launching in 2007 with a better gpu and a bit more memory (say 768mb at least) with a much better games lineup could have justified a higher price and had much better results in consumer mindshare early on. No bayonetta/the darkness/30fps ea sports woes.
Do you think it would have been a good idea, or even more expensive for Sony with not much market benefit? The other thing is, I wonder if MS would launch a 360 successor sooner or if they’d want to keep recouping costs as well.
Thoughts?