Thoughts on the PS3: Who Created Who?

Before	After

I read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley for a book report way back in High School. You’re probably familiar with how the story goes. Victor Frankenstein thought of breathing life into an inanimate object by means of alchemy. He intended the creature to be beautiful, but when it had awoken he was disgusted. At this point you could be wondering what is has to do with the PS3. I thought of it, after reading this post by Steroyd, about the evolution of the PS3.

What people fail to realise is that the PS3 is the creation of the consumers and devs.

What were the problems with the PS2 according to people?
2 controller ports isn’t enough.
Online is crap.
No Built in ethernet port.
Had to purchase a Memory card after you bought the system.

What did devs want out of next gen.
More Ram
More processing power.
Ease of development.
More disc space?
Hard drive standard

What were the complaits after E3 last year.
2 HDMI ports is overkill.
7 controllers is overkill.
3 ethernet ports is overkill.
The controller looks horrible.
Didn’t talk about online much.
No playable games.
Games won’t play like that (or was it look)

Anyway Sony modify the PS3 according to the complaints, and the result is…
It’s too expensive.
They copied Xbox Live.
They copied the Wii.
Sony Lied and took out the ports.
Games don’t look any better than on the Xbox 360 (with the same 6 month time frame as the Xbox 360 had last year).

Sony bends over too easily, but i’m kind of glad because i’d prefer that than Nintendo’s “we know best” policy.

Although it is very admirable that Sony wanted to satisfy their customers with a product that has their likes and dislikes in mind, such a feat may never be possible. Just the thought that they actually do take customers’ feedbacks into consideration, is something to be said about the Sony, since multi-billion dollar companies hardly listens to consumers (they have the guys at customer service for that). But I think what Sony is not seeing is the cliche that you can’t please everybody. If you always bend to their wishes you’ll spoil them rotten. Sony has the biggest fan base, as far as consoles go, and for Sony to be able to please every single one of those players and developers is an impossible feat.

So let’s ask ourselves, “Who created who?”

Via ps3forums

Before	After

I read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley for a book report way back in High School. You’re probably familiar with how the story goes. Victor Frankenstein thought of breathing life into an inanimate object by means of alchemy. He intended the creature to be beautiful, but when it had awoken he was disgusted. At this point you could be wondering what is has to do with the PS3. I thought of it, after reading this post by Steroyd, about the evolution of the PS3.

What people fail to realise is that the PS3 is the creation of the consumers and devs.

What were the problems with the PS2 according to people?
2 controller ports isn’t enough.
Online is crap.
No Built in ethernet port.
Had to purchase a Memory card after you bought the system.

What did devs want out of next gen.
More Ram
More processing power.
Ease of development.
More disc space?
Hard drive standard

What were the complaits after E3 last year.
2 HDMI ports is overkill.
7 controllers is overkill.
3 ethernet ports is overkill.
The controller looks horrible.
Didn’t talk about online much.
No playable games.
Games won’t play like that (or was it look)

Anyway Sony modify the PS3 according to the complaints, and the result is…
It’s too expensive.
They copied Xbox Live.
They copied the Wii.
Sony Lied and took out the ports.
Games don’t look any better than on the Xbox 360 (with the same 6 month time frame as the Xbox 360 had last year).

Sony bends over too easily, but i’m kind of glad because i’d prefer that than Nintendo’s “we know best” policy.

Although it is very admirable that Sony wanted to satisfy their customers with a product that has their likes and dislikes in mind, such a feat may never be possible. Just the thought that they actually do take customers’ feedbacks into consideration, is something to be said about the Sony, since multi-billion dollar companies hardly listens to consumers (they have the guys at customer service for that). But I think what Sony is not seeing is the cliche that you can’t please everybody. If you always bend to their wishes you’ll spoil them rotten. Sony has the biggest fan base, as far as consoles go, and for Sony to be able to please every single one of those players and developers is an impossible feat.

So let’s ask ourselves, “Who created who?”

Via ps3forums