Damn Sony fanboy. You're pretty much just spewing nonsense. You can't give credit to ANYTHING but Sony's PS3 and Sony. See the Light, dude, they're MILKING you for money.
The brand
There was a time when 'Nintendo' was synonomous with console gaming, but times have changed and 'PlayStation' has taken that throne. Microsoft made some strides in that department with the XBOX, but Sony, on the global scale, still holds the chains. Selling over 100 million machines twice is an amazing feat for any console developer. Do NOT underestimate the power of a brand name.
Give me a break...
Yes, the PS2 won. So what? Why did it win? Because of the DVD format. Cartridges were expensive to produce and not so easy. It scared the developers off that was there from the SNES era.
...And when the games flock to one console, then what? That console becomes supreme. Everybody knows playstation because it had the most games. Thus everyone bought it and the stores trended to tell the PS2 and tell people to buy it. Easy enough.
Don't count of the brand.
The Revolution, or Wii, has a lot of pre-orders. And guess what? There are a lot of orders from non-gamers or CASUAL gamers! Wow! Yet, Nintendo had lost their big brand?
The competition
The PS2 OUTSOLD the XBOX360 six out of the seven months since its launch.
'Nuff said . The PS2 is 6 YEARS old... it has consistently outsold this so-called 'next-gen' console. The 360's flagship titles will almost all be delivered in equal or better quality on the PS3, many of them right at launch. Not to mention all the games only available to the PlayStation... Metal Gear, Final Fantasy (*drool), Devil May Cry, Virtua Fighter, Gran Turismo...
Dude, again, the PS2 is older, more well known and has a bigger game library. No wonder.
The samurai
Japan. Land of the video games. The original XBOX did fine in North America and Europe, but it was an utter failure in Japan. The XBOX 360 continues to struggle in the land of the rising sun. What kind of launch party has consoles left over? Not a fuckin' PLAYSTATION launch party, not in Japan anyway, hell no. An army of squinty eyed, fanatically dressed, Japanese gamers will line up for DAYS in anticipation for PS3 launch.
Quit your whining. Xbox 360 is an outsider to the Japanese people and the Japanese are more likely to side with their own companies who makes consoles, aka Nintendo and Sony. That's why it doesn't do well. And guess what? They're also flocking to the Revolution!
The ray of blue
Blu-Ray will make a difference. It may fail as a movie format, but the amount of space available for software developers to use will allow for huge enviroments with amazing detail. Microsoft can compete for awhile with fancy compression techniques, but in the end, the extra space in Blu-Ray discs will hold some of the greatest, most epic scenes you've ever witnessed. Believe it. When developers start combining the Blu-Ray medium and the Cell processors to their fullest potential, games will have reached a new level of awesomeness and the PS3 by that time will no longer be $500.
Blu-ray will fail. It's too new and it will break too often. When new generation of PS3s comes with a proper Blu-ray drive, I'll accept it more.
The internetzorz
Free online. This is something I heartely admire. In the age of successful subscription based MMORPGS, Sony continues to deliver free online. I have said it countless times, I will not pay for a game I've already bought. When I boot that shit up, it better damnwell give me the whole of its existence without me pulling out my credit card. If anything, this tells fans of PlayStation, " Here you go guys, have fun". What a pat on the back. It almost makes a tear run down my face.
PS
This is mostly taken from an article in business world magazine.
Online may be free, but they WILL find other ways to take away your money. Oh, be so sure.
As I wrote, your Sony love is clouding your view. The world isn't just black and white. Grow up, travel the world and see if it with your own eyes.
And I can't see a fekking power-sucking machine such as the PS3 to be the "true" machine. Sony needs to do something about that power drain. Period.
It just shows how badly designed the PS3 is. They've just slapped in everything there and hope it works. Damn idiots.