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So Sony's PlayStation 3.

So we have not done an episode about this shockingly.

I'm kind of calling it here because I feel like it would be a great discussion.

So this stumbled at launch with a lackluster lineup and a very steep price. So depending on if you chose the 20 gigabit or the 60 gigabyte version, you'd be paying basically between $800 to $1,000 of today money. So the actual number price of the console is what is being charged today, but then you have to add inflation and everything. So very, very expensive. You'll naturally have to get two jobs. Oh,

what's coming around the corner? Zero jobs. Uh-oh. Can't do that anymore. So Sony stumbles out

of the gate. The surprising thing is they do catch up because we have the PS3 Slim. Blue

Ray wins the media race. And it's not incredibly close, but I believe like Xbox 360 is like 84 million and

this is 81 million. So it's way closer than I would have estimated given just how much of a

disaster PS3 was out of the gate. It helps that no one in Japan bought an Xbox 360s. So the numbers

in that region are definitely skewed. Yes, an entire nation not buying it. Yes. Unless you were a weirdo shooter, shooter otaku, then you were playing, you know,

ESP Galuda and Mushihime Sama, I guess. But that was it. No one else cared. Yeah, the PS3 was

like interesting to me in that I never had one, some friends of mine did,

but it didn't really have the games that I was interested in.

And I don't even mean Western games.

Like I mean those kinds of shooters.

Like the PlayStation 3 library just has basically none of those kinds of genre, like the STGs.

They all went to Xbox for whatever insane reason.

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