Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe boss Ray Maguire told Official PlayStation Magazine UK, ”PS3 has taken longer than PS2 to establish itself simply because of the cost of the product. It’s been a challenge for us to get the costs down over the years. The retail price has been more than we would have liked… Hopefully the price might still come down.”
Maguire also bragged, “It gets adopted, then it gets redeveloped, so you keep on upgrading everything as you go along. I think that’s part of its success and the longevity of it.
“I did think we were taking a big risk in PS3 by making it so heavy featured. As it turned out, I now think it was a stroke of genius, because it’s given PS3 the ability to go on year after year.”
Some may argue his use of the word “upgraded”, since over the years, the PS3 has had its major bullet-point features such as backwards compatibility and Linux support removed. Let us know what you think.