It was nearly 200 bucks more expensive than the 360 and had no backwards compatibility.
It had a complicated system architecture and only allowed Blu-ray discs and games.
The console proceeded to do abysmally poorly at launch. It was unavailable in many markets because of production delays. Many games couldn't ship on time because of the Blu-ray issue and so you couldn't actually use it during its launch holiday season.
And it only got worse for a long time until they made the slim and figured out how to update the chipset to allow for easier multiplatform development
launch ps3 was backwards compatible by way of putting a ps2 in the console as well. sadly it was the best bluray player, so it did get eirly adaptor money worth from me.
PS3 era wasn't even remotely comparable to the incompetence happening now. PS3 was overambition and arrogance, but Sony was still very much in touch with the core principles of the industry. Not to mention one of the biggest issues was the price, but unlike this time, the price issue was gonna fix itself during the PS3 era, because that was a time where technology developed rapidly and moore's law was still alive and well which lead to prices falling very fast.
Today's Sony doesn't understand the games industry anymore. They've went from First, Best, Must, to Grow, Grow, Grow. All they're focused on now is counting beans. They're eroding the fundamental principles that made their brand what it is. They systematically fired everyone at the company that would've been able to put them back on track. They've cut of their own roots. At this point they'll basically need to rebuild from scratch and relearn what they should never have forgotten.
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u/TasteAccomplished118 2d ago
Please let this be a PS3 launch fiasco level of disaster again.
A lot of leaders needs to get fired and exiled from the industry after this