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Last time engineers were allowed to do whatever they wanted we got PS3, so console designed by suits is probably not worst idea ever.
Don't know if you've gotten a chance to watch this or not but the Documentary you can buy on Prime for $9.99 called
From Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution
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The PlayStation Revolution is a documentary covering the creation of the Sony PlayStation and many of the ground-breaking video games that were developed because of it. The film explores the influence of the console and how it took video game development and the very way we experienced games to...
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It's super good. Literally goes into a lot of hardware depth on the creation of PS3. It was super advanced for it's time, hell up till the last couple years it's cpu is still looked at by Missle targeting systems.
It's just that it was too complicated and not enough documentation was available. Look at what they were able to do closer to the end of the gen with it?
Ken Kutaragi along with everyone at Sony were not really enterprise CEO's. They all started in electronics, entertainment.
Which is why barring the PS3 the back bone of Playstation is entertainment, and not Enterprise like Microsoft.
Microsoft not treating Xbox as a entertainment/art system is what has fucked it. No one but the original creators who some had ties to sega could tell you what xbox meant to them. I always say this but, the Original XBox has a ton of Sega DNA, and honestly felt like the dreamcast 2.0. They had built in lan, a HDD, DVD drive and a chat library style system where you could do other things from the main menu.
Even a lot of the early titles were sega. Sega rally gt, Jet set radio future, Gunvalkryie, Otagi, Panzer Dragoon Orta, shenmue 2 port, phantasy star online, outrun 2.
The list is pretty big and a lot of those were first year titles.
Xbox has been fucked since Original because the wrong people started it's division for the wrong reasons. They wanted the box to be your center living room box, to do tv and shit. I mean they had a recording feature for original xbox to watch tv at some point there's pics online of a old RF adapter that goes into your xbox. They tried doing tv stuff with Windows Media center that you could link your xbox to for content sharing.
But thats not what made people love the xbox. ANd the people at Microsoft didn't know what they had.
I feel now it's too late. Even with phil at the helm. He has to adhere to the Nadella guidelines the rest of the company is.....services. TO them xbox now is just a another service on a spreadsheet of their assets.
Sony lets Playstation be what it is, and supports it through other divisions. Like film division they use some of their facilities for the mo-cap, same with sound studios.
it blows to be like this on a brand that to me had a lot going for it in the early beginnings. But too many enterprise people and not enough of people like J allard ran the division into the ground. Now they are trying so desperately they are giving away their software. But no one really wants it. They want to play Doom eternal, red dead 2, destiny 2, or dmcv.
I know services is the direction this is all going in at some point, but if PC is still viable through all the shit it's been through then regular game ownership is too on consoles. Subscription is another avenue for sure for people who like having a variety of games and are not particular in what they play.
For the rest of us, though we like getting hyped up for a title we have come to love.
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