@BrianK

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PS3 sales are supposedly up 30%. Hopefully Sony's loss is less than the last console revision loss.

Of course the loss is less with the Slim! The only reason for the redesign was COST! Yes they made it more energy efficient, but primarily it is a smaller form factor made of cheaper materials with smaller components in smaller packaging! All these factor reduce cost! BUT THERE IS NO ADDED VALUE ADDED!!! No B.C., and no 'improved' third party OS support (that would help Hyperion) only the announcement of its removal! The XBox360 is kicking Sony's butt in this marketplace, it's cheaper, has better/more games is semi-back compatible with the original XBox for Doom3 etc and has an amazing live service! M$ have courted companies like Rockstar and to a lesser extent Team17 and built good relationships with them. Sony has alienated their core PS2 customers and the developers that have stuck by them since the PS1 days. Publishers like Activision have threatened ceasing develpoment for the PS3 (although now that it's cheaper they probably wont) and ID software guru John Carmack says that 'Rage' development is lagging behind on the PS3 - just like the C&C Red Alert 3 debarcle all over again.

SONY YOU'VE DROPPED THE BALL - Yeah, not to the degree that SEGA or COMMODORE did but bad enough to make you play catch up for the rest of the decade and well into the next one!

The Playstation Brand is not invincible and is worth considerably less due to Sony's stupid decision making, bad licencing agreements (Dual Shock 3), inability to code B.C. into software, non-existant advertising to the degree you'd swear from UK TV advertising that most games are only released on the XBox360 (even though they're multi-platform) and generally screwing a lot of things up!

Oh yeah, and you never released Twisted Metal Head On: Extra Twisted in Europe on the PS2 because of your long standing feud between SCEA (America) and SCEE (Europe)!!! You're two parts of the same company!! GET OVER YOURSELVES AND WORK TOGETHER!!!!

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