rataven said:
Could it be.....that Sony actually listened? I say this without sarcasm. I swear, their fans yammered about this for YEARS, and it's like today, it's finally clicked.
Yep.
Actually, to be honest, Sony's done a fairly good job all generation of listening. The initial $100 price cut was quite responsive, even though it cost them an enormous amount of money. They got caught with their pants down on rumble, on achievements, on actually having an online community, on digitally downloaded games, on operating system functionality... and they've really moved aggressively to make up for their mistakes.
I'm of the firm opinion that Sony made an enormous amount of bad decisions before launching the PS3. Some still linger--firmware updates are huge, patches are huge, games have mandatory install, even with this price cut the system is still fairly high priced--but pretty much all of the issues with PS3 that exist now are not the result of post-launch fumbling, but instead pre-launch fumbling. Even stuff like no cross-game chat... I believe Sony when they say that it's hard to pull these things off, and that's because they made architectural mistakes to begin with, but they really have tried to fix them.
Honestly, actually, I think all three companies have been relatively responsive to consumers keeping in mind 1) the fuckups they made pre-launch and during the early release period, and 2) the amount of time it takes to correct a mistake once you get the message. It's really amazing how much pull consumers have and how company actions have really been dictated a good deal in response to consumers.
iidesuyo said:
By the way, probably somewhat OT, but am I the only one who is impressed that Sony presented this major revision at a German/European convention? This would have been unthinkable ten years ago. A lot has happened in the past few years regarding the European market.
Scheduling helps this too, honestly.