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I think Sony was hoping to duplicate the success of the PS2, which included a DVD player which was a definite added value to the cost of the system. The difference then was that, by 2000, the DVD had been well established as the next-gen video format, and there was no competition to sow the seeds of doubt in consumer's minds that they might be wasting their money in it.
All of Sony's talk about the "10 year product cycle" is just obfuscation of the fact that sales on the PS3 have been extremely disappointing. They are losing exclusives left and right, and developers don't want to spend the millions of dollars it takes to make a great game on a system whose installed base is a small fraction of its competitors. If they were more savvy about the U.S. market's price sensitivity, they would have done what MS did and make the Blu-Ray an add-on.
I think Sony was hoping to duplicate the success of the PS2, which included a DVD player which was a definite added value to the cost of the system. The difference then was that, by 2000, the DVD had been well established as the next-gen video format, and there was no competition to sow the seeds of doubt in consumer's minds that they might be wasting their money in it.
All of Sony's talk about the "10 year product cycle" is just obfuscation of the fact that sales on the PS3 have been extremely disappointing. They are losing exclusives left and right, and developers don't want to spend the millions of dollars it takes to make a great game on a system whose installed base is a small fraction of its competitors. If they were more savvy about the U.S. market's price sensitivity, they would have done what MS did and make the Blu-Ray an add-on.
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