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Found this interesting...Aaron Greenberg, Director of Product Management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live had these words to say. Sure, he's a voice of Microsoft and will likely be throwing insults rather than compliments, but even I, a PS3 fan, can agree with what he has to say.
"I know a lot of folks enjoy watching the console wars and we would never underestimate our competition. But answer to your question specifically, didn't Sony promise all of this last year including Home as well? We have been fighting Sony's promises from the day we entered the market and if you remember at that time it was all about PS2 being an online cybercity with partner announcements from the likes of RealNetworks and AOL. Then three years ago at E3 they showed what PS3 games would supposedly look like with the Killzone 2 video, that we are now learning will ship four years later. That means that we will have shipped Gears of War and Gears of War 2 before they can even get Killzone out the door," he said. "Think back to GDC 2007 when Sony promised to leap ahead in online with the Sony Home unveil. Here we are two years later and multiple delays for a product that appears to have little to no buzz. Where are the achievements? The friends list integration across all games? Where is the long-promised video store? Where are all the other products using and networking with their CELL chip? How come Blu-ray did not result in better games? What happened with Sixaxis and rumble? Where is the complete 1080p game library we were promised? If Blu-ray as they said would be such a catalyst to PS3 console sales, then why have PS3 sales over the past couple months not seen any lift since the format victory?"
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/
This merely supports the fact that Sony is A LOT of talk. They are an ambitious company, and they want to be pioneers. They introduced the first Playstation, which launched the game industry into the mainstream, and the Walkman, an item that revolutionized portable music. I guess this gave them what they think is the right to promise all sorts of ridiculously awesome stuff that, in the end, may have been impossible to come into fruition.
Ill attempt to address some of the points. First off, 3rd party developers do not necessarily reflect what Sony does. Whereas Sony implemented 1080P I believe in all of their games, other companies are not willing to since it will merely increase development costs. Sony cannot speak for everyone.
The online video store, I presume, has been purposely withheld in order for Sony to push the Blu-ray format as much as possible. Giving people the ability to download movies rather than buying hard copies at the store gives Blu-ray less of a chance of further penetration of the market.
Home has been hyped to all hell as being the god of online communities. With claims like this, Sony does NOT want to fuck up. In fact, another article just published recently admitted that Sony may have been TOO ambitious with Home:
"It seems even Sony knows when to admit it bit off a little more than it could initially masticate. In a short discussion with CVG, Reeves admitted they've "realized that maybe we were too ambitious with the non-gaming applications within Home, getting sponsors and stuff like that ... in that sense we were deserting gamers. So, we're concentrating on the gaming by launching games in Home, and attracting people who are into gaming in first -- instead of the Nike people, or Adidas people who are into fashion and not necessarily into gaming."
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/
...for them to fix that, it'll require more time in the shop, meaning more delays and pissed off gamers.
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