• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    For wanting to own the living room, they never tried particularly hard. PS3 was a damned successful blueray player. They just needed to give you a nice, curated experience and ease of use. There were literally people buying PS3’s because they were cheaper than blueray players at the time

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      Yeah, Sony is just better at this. They’re really good at taking advantage of their competitors’ mistakes.

      We forget a lot now, but the opening of the PS3/Xbox 360 era looked like Microsoft was winning. Sales looked good for them, Blu-ray be damned. Then the Red Ring of Death hits. In some ways, Microsoft has yet to recover from that. Sony held their face just above the toilet water ever since.