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They lost because tge winner of that generation was the Wii, wich won because of it's gimmicky motion controller and good library of party games. Something simm
by Anarch157a 3y ago
They lost because tge winner of that generation was the Wii, wich won because of it's gimmicky motion controller and good library of party games. Something simmilar is happening now with thw Switch. In both cases, being much cheaper doesn't hurt.
But compared to the Xbox, PS3 "won" at the tail end of the generation, I would credit this to the supperior exclusive titles and the sales outside US. In Europe, Japan an South America, Playstation sells a lot more than Xbox. Where I live (Brazil) almost no one buys Xbox. As an anecdote, in 20 years, I met only one person who owned one (a X360) and several who had Playstations. And the X360 owner only had it because she worked at Microsoft and got it as a gift from the company.
- dontlaugh 3y agoIn the UK and US, it was mostly the other way around with the 360 being much more common.
- bee_rider 3y agoMS has the home team advantage here in the US, so you’d certainly hope they’d win here at least!
- justapassenger 3y agoCould that be related with PS3, IIRC, being, easier to play "backup" games than X360?
- twisteriffic 3y agoOr the PS3 being a cheap and consistently upgraded BluRay player. I bought a slim as soon as they came out as a BluRay and media player. It was cheaper than about 95% of the other offerings at the time, had a way better UI and remote, and wasn't going to get locked out when content keys were rolled. It supported upnp media playback, so I could stick a mediatomb machine in a closet and use a nice remote and UI in the living room. A side benefit being that you can get dirt cheap laser modules and keep it going forever.