Sony Admits PS3 Pricing Was It Getting “Carried Away”

Sony has admitted that the absurd PS3 price ticket was the Japanese console maker getting “carried away” as a consequence of earlier success. The console was priced on the absurd minimal of $499, which granted is the value of the most recent console, however on the time, that quantity was much more of a giant ask than it’s at the moment.

Throughout an interview with CNBC (through PSLS), soon-to-be-gone PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, former PS boss Shawn Layden, and PlayStation Studios head Herman Hulst talked concerning the console technology blunder.

Concurrently one of many largest developments and largest blunders in Sony’s ongoing console historical past, the PS3 was a console made to compete with the nonetheless comparatively new Xbox 360, and… it fumbled fairly a bit. From tough sport improvement to its lofty price ticket, it wasn’t flying off the cabinets like Sony had hoped, particularly coming off of the PS2 period.

All that stated, to Layden, the PS3 outlined PlayStation with first-party video games which have moved onto staples of the model.

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