Sony PS3 hasn't lived up to expectations!

Actually not my words but rather worryingly the words of Jack Tretton who works as the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America! He claimed that the reasons behind the Sony PS3's slow start in the market is because Sony is trying to move the games industry towards high definition gaming. I think he's needlessly blabbering as HDTV's become the normal due to price drops and market forces in the future high definition gaming will become the standard anyway! Maybe he should have just admitted making the PS3 backward compatible, lack of must own games and the very high price point compared to the Wii and Xbox 360 are the real reasons that the PS3 has had such a slow sales start in the games console market!

Speaking to MSNBC SCEA CEO Jack Tretton said about the PS3 "I think the PS3’s first year fell short of what we’d ideally like. But if you put it into perspective, we’re not taking the safe route. We didn’t take the PS2 and add a few bells and whistles to it. What we’re trying to do here is refocus the game industry towards high-definition gaming, a real state-of-the-art, future-proof machine for the next decade. The beauty of this business is that it isn’t all about one day, it isn’t all about one title, or one month. I think there’s a tremendous amount of software for the holiday season — 160 games coming out on PS3 alone for this holiday, on top of the 200 games that have already been out there, so there’s more than enough great software for consumers to sink their teeth in for the holidays. We’ve got 19 exclusives, and again, I think that’s something that’s a pretty amazing feat in the first year of a platform’s lifecycle. And they’re not just games that are exclusive for the sake of exclusivity, they’re games that are built and differentiated for the PS3 and just couldn’t be done on any other platform.”

I think sales of the PS3 will start to increase in 2008 and eventually overtake the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360, but it really does need some exclusive must own games.

 

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