14 DAY TRIAL // Again, all the possible reasons for which gamers in the UK don't want the next-gen console from Sony are posted for everyone to chew on, this time on Crave, a division of C|Net UK. And what do you know, it's the same three reasons that we hear almost every day: price, lack of good titles at launch and no one ever using the machine's full power anyway. In case you're wondering who said the latter and why, it was none other than Sony's Nick Sharples and his actual words were: "no one will ever use the full power of the console" in regards to the PS3.
We're going to skip the first two parts regarding the PS3's price and its poor launch titles. Thus we're going to discuss something of more importance and that is Nick Sharples' statement from last year, concerning the unusable power of the machine. Why do you think he said that? We know by now that the PS3 is indeed a powerful machine, but where exactly does all that power go, when a game is running? Sharples talked at CES about several PS3 processors being dedicated to "making a character's hair move in a realistic manner," for example, or "rendering the contours of a cape."
So this means that Sony bet on graphics, right? Well, partially. They "also" bet on great visuals and probably even told developers to focus more on that aspect, because the machine could handle it, but they couldn't just leave gameplay and other important aspects aside.
The only real reasons for the console's lack of popularity, and not just in the UK, are the first two, which we skipped: price and games. Because they're so old and boring by now, sometimes I wish there were something really scandalous going on, so I can have a real story to talk about. If Sony lowers the price on their machine, along with getting game developers to really work for the PS3, I don't see why it wouldn't go smoothly. The thing is they should have made these steps prior to launching it. Now they'll just have to catch up with their mistakes.