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I still see this as a loss.

I've seen the differences in various communities in some games (most specifically, GTA:O) across multiple consoles and on PC. And I can safely say that I never want to play an online multiplayer game where those communities interact on a regular and unavoidable basis.

Even aside from other considerations, hacking tends to be so bad on PC that it makes GTA:O almost unplayable. I don't want a single one of those chucklefucks within 1000 yards of my game.



adjl posted...

Sony has a history of getting arrogant when they're ahead

All the major companies do.

Sony's arrogance from the PS2 dominance is what gave us the PS3's weaker showing and allowed the Xbox 360 to become as dominant a console as it did. Microsoft's arrogance from being on top with the 360 is what gave us the clusterfuck of the Xbone. Nintendo's arrogance after the success of the NES and SNES is what basically led to the creation of the PS1 in the first place, when they pissed off Sony. And so on.

This isn't even a new thing - Atari's arrogance after the success of the 2600 is a large part of what helped pave the way for the Great Crash of 1983.

It seems like an unwritten rule of the game industry that the better you do in any given generation, the worse you'll fuck up in the next. We have yet to see a major company that seems to learn from the mistakes of the past.



adjl posted...

see: charging $600 for the PS3 at launch

To be fair, they lost that battle, but won the war.

Sony barely gave a shit whether or not the higher cost would cut into console sales for the PS3. The real goal was forcing Blu-Ray tech into the box to force it into the marketplace, to outpace adoption of the HD-DVD format. They basically wanted to leverage their most successful brand to artificially stimulate their other brand, to bank off the potential future earnings of Blu-Ray for years (or decades) to come (and they were STILL pissed off about losing in the Betamax/VHS fight long before, especially since Betamax was technically the better format). The fact that the PS3 didn't sell as well as the PS2 is immaterial - the real victory is that Blu-Ray won and HD-DVD died.

Of course, in the end they kind of got screwed over anyway, as the rise of streaming media and a large segment of the audience being unwilling to give up vanilla DVD at all means they're not selling as many Blu-Rays as they hoped they would... but at the time they saw it as a win.


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