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Originally Posted by Requiem This whole 'it's a business' argument is stupid. Sony and Nintendo are businesses too and I guarantee Sony needs money more than Microsoft.

Originally Posted by Kane Knight Sony definitely needs the business more than Microsoft right now in this sense. Microsoft is the dominant competition (Note I'm not saying it's outselling the Wii; rather, I'm saying the Wii is not their primary competitor), which has more sales, a better profit margin (Or a lower loss margin) and a better attach rate. They literally have to offer some sort of incentive, and they've been loading the PS3 with as much as they possibly can. The PSN is just another outreach of that. Sony's being left in the dust and cannot afford to do what Microsoft is doing. That's also why Sony's trying to cut down the cost of their units. It's why they're doing a lot of what they're doing, because they're trying hard to make their system viable.

This is a big point that probably isn't going to get a whole lot of attention unless It gets highlighted, so pardon the minor edits to these posts.

Fact is Sony got big-headed and thought they could outdo the competition on HD bells and whistles alone, while still charging $200 more than the competition. All the HD configurations in the world couldn't save them from falling into third place in hardware sales and pissing off developers.

In fact, all of Sony's current problems are of their own making: The afformentioned expensive feature loading which drove up the cost of the system. The shitty initial developer kits which hamstringed multiplatform games. Ripping off proprietary hardware in the Dualshock controllers which ended up costing them millions AND forced them to turn to another rip off in Sixaxis, which most people don't really care for, meaning they have to work with the company they shat on to make new Dualshock controller (despite playing big initially).

I'm sure there's more, but I have errands to do.