I know exactly the cause of this. The 360 got a bad rep because of the red ring of death fiasco bricking the consoles. All because of a few design flaws, mostly around the processors assembly that took them quite a while to figure out the cause of, and even longer to do anything about.
Then the even bigger nail in the coffin of Blu-ray beating out HD DVD, and a PS3 being pretty much the cheapest blu ray player you could get.
Yep. Usually the only PS3 issue that happens is when the drive wears out, eventually. I think that turns into a big issue because 8 believe the drive is “paired” to the PlayStation, so you’d have to move over the control board on the drive to the replacement drive. If you don’t swap those you have to do a bunch of custom firmware bullshit.
The last part was always crazy to me. A device that only played Blu-Ray movies was like $1000, but the PS3, which could do that and so much more was half the price of a basic as fuck blu ray player.
PS3 launched at $500 in 2006 and Xbox launched at $300 ($400 with HDD) in 2005. Then ps3 had a slim model in 2009 that was $300. Xbox was ahead and Microsoft got lazy whereas ps3 was starting to get some fun exclusives and had a free online. There are just multiple factors that played into this.
I know exactly the cause of this. The 360 got a bad rep because of the red ring of death fiasco bricking the consoles. All because of a few design flaws, mostly around the processors assembly that took them quite a while to figure out the cause of, and even longer to do anything about.
Then the even bigger nail in the coffin of Blu-ray beating out HD DVD, and a PS3 being pretty much the cheapest blu ray player you could get.
I have two working PS3s and one broken 360.
One of the PS3s is a launch unit. Impressive machine.
Yep. Usually the only PS3 issue that happens is when the drive wears out, eventually. I think that turns into a big issue because 8 believe the drive is “paired” to the PlayStation, so you’d have to move over the control board on the drive to the replacement drive. If you don’t swap those you have to do a bunch of custom firmware bullshit.
The last part was always crazy to me. A device that only played Blu-Ray movies was like $1000, but the PS3, which could do that and so much more was half the price of a basic as fuck blu ray player.
It was the same story with DVD and the PS2, which was in no small part a major reason for its early success.
Sony also sold the PS3 itself at a loss at launch in order to get a bigger install base, and hoped to make their money back on software sales.
It’s called subsidizing
Sell console at a loss, get profit from games and online subscriptions
Like how smart tvs are cheaper because they sell your data
PS3 launched at $500 in 2006 and Xbox launched at $300 ($400 with HDD) in 2005. Then ps3 had a slim model in 2009 that was $300. Xbox was ahead and Microsoft got lazy whereas ps3 was starting to get some fun exclusives and had a free online. There are just multiple factors that played into this.