Why the PS3 will not succeed.

There is much speculation around why the PS3 will or wont succeed. and I guess I'm going to join in on the bandwagon on how it wont succeed.

a few reasons:
1: Loss of fan-boy Love.
I am a forum poster, I post in gaming forums EVERYWHERE, and I've experienced first handed as forums started out as strong Playstation dominated gamers ruled them. into where the Playstation gamer influence dropped significantly, to such a level where the few Playstation gamers that stayed strong, would start to throw accusations that nothing had changed and that the forums were ALWAYS full of Nintendo/Microsoft fan-boys. not just that, but how individuals that I know personally who I would never dream of owning anything but a Playstation, are outspoken on their dislike of the PS3 and how they are going to get a Wii60.

2: Weak launch to strong opposition
call it what you want, but Sony launched into a war where the opponent has set up camp, has nearly 200 games out, costs about 40% on average less then them, has plenty of units manufactured and sold, and has stolen many of its exclusive must-own titles. and it doesn't appear to get any better anytime soon as developers can earn allot more money by making a game for the Xbox or the Wii than they can cater to a larger audience, and also reduce production costs and time required to make the game.

3: Gimmicky Everything
Blu-ray, I have no need of it and neither do vasts amounts of gamers, infact most games that will be made for the console wont need blu-ray either, hell designers have fit the whole Unreal 3 engine into a 50mb constraint including a full game. and when you realize that digital distribution is in the future for gaming. its hard to imagine downloading a 25gb game when 9gb games offer the same quality, graphics, size and play. Blu-ray is best for watching movies, not games. so if you really want a HD movie player and a game console. then Sony catered right to you. otherwise you are paying extra for something that is unneeded.

4: Same old same old.
there is little difference from the PS3 and the PS2 besides graphics. the online part is better... but only slightly, its quite underwhelming when compared to Xbox Live. The user interface is also different, but mimics the PSP where it worked (kinda) on a full console it feels static, and confusing. forcing you to go through drop down menu after menu to find what you need rather than using the whole screen to show you everything you could do. sure it looks nice, but it gets boring quickly. and yes, it does have motion sensitive controllers, that is different from the PS2.. but the games that are using it use it are using it in a half-assed way so that its rarely critical to the game (though the flying games seem to be the only games that have done it right, kudos to them!)

5: Few exclusives.
The PS2 lived on exclusive games and content. there were many games that it got that the xbox or Gamecube never saw. but many developers are saying that with the increased cost of game development, making a platform exclusive game is risky business. this translates into the big 3rd party games will most certainly be made available for all the consoles. and some 2nd party companies will become 3rd party companies making games for everyone. also with the increased difficulty to make PS3 games over 360 games, its more unlikely that an exclusive for the 360 will be ported to the PS3 as that time could be better spent making a new game for both consoles.

6: Rushed
despite the numerous delays, and the launch games that have had an extra year of development. the bugs are still many and extreme, the many launch problems with broken/buggy PS3's and extremely small shipments all point to a launch that was too early. in fact at least while the 360 came out it was the most powerful gaming machine on the market for awhile, until the very powerful Core 2 duo game out for PC's with the GeForce 8800. But the PS3 isn't even that fast compared to the even newer Core 2 Quad and a GeForce 7900. so if they had waited even longer the hardware would have been even more outdated.

7: No advantage over 360
Not hardware, software, graphically, game-play, features, there is not one thing that i can see that the PS3 can do that the 360 cant. this is quite surprising as the PS3 has had a MUCH longer development time than the 360, and launched a year later. still this white box manages to STILL pack a punch a year later to this mammoth of a console.

I know I've said allot. but I stand behind it. its going to raise some anger and I will certainly draw some fan-boys flame. but overall I do not see the PS3 being that big of a heavy hitter as the PS2 was. hopefully they can get it right for the PS4.