I Told You Sony

Slashdot confirms my predictions:

To put things in perspective, the Curmudgeon Gamer has created graphs showing inflation-adjusted console costs. The PS3 is far from the most expensive console in history (that would be the Neo Geo, at almost $1000 adjusted price), but that hasn't stopped analysts, publishers, developers, and gamers from grumbling about it the week after E3. ABI Research has publicly stated that Sony may have 'hamstrung' itself with the console's high price. Publishers and developers are worried because (despite Sony's protests to the contrary), developers just don't have the kits to make the games. From the GameDaily article: "'A lot of developers have not gotten the kits,' said Sega of America president Simon Jeffrey while attending E3 last week. 'There certainly will not be a lot of titles available.' The result is that publishers that do want to take part in the PS3 launch will have to release games that don't fully take advantage of the power of the Cell processor, added Jeffrey."

Here's what I said before comparing Sony to Apple:

Sony puts rootkits on CDs, fueling rage, hatred and alienation among former devotees. The Minidisc never goes anywhere and the usage of DATs is considered selling out in the underground of hiphop. Nobody can pronounce VAIO and nobody really wants VAIO laptops any longer. They're overpriced and they break. Sony is so over.

As for the vaunted power of the PS3, I think John Carmack of ID put that myth in perspective when he rather dissed the devkit of the PS3 as compared to that for the XBox 360 at E3 last week. In the car world there's a joke that Ferrari people say, which is that people who don't know how to build motors bolt on turbos. So it might help to think of the PS3 as a turbocharged V8 with 600 horsepower and the XBox 360 as a normally aspirated V10 with 575 horsepower. Yeah the PS3 is slightly more powerful, but you also have to understand an extra technology in order to make it go. Whereas with the XBox 360, you just need to know one and it goes plenty fast.

So given that the Sony guys aren't even getting devkits out there, this is doubly bad news for PS3 fans. But you know diehards.