It's successor the PS3 doesn't fare as well, getting beat by an underpowered but accessible Wii, and an oft-broken, but ostensibly cool Xbox 360. Nintendo's flagship especially garnered so much success by having a key characteristic none of their rivals in the market have: motion control. Sony was left behind to eat the Wii's dust.
Sony sought to emulate Nintendo's success, so they introduced the Move, their own version of motion control. It looks slick, although you could look at it as just a fancy vibrator with a clown's nose (and if there's something I hate with a vengeance, it's clowns).
Microsoft one upped Sony in the motion control department with the Project formerly known as Natal, the Kinect. It's main selling point: no motion controller to hold. Instead the Kinect is just an infrared scanner that detects your body movement in the room. So you can wave, bend over, nod your head, and your on screen avatar will do the same. Well at least it's something different from the competition.
Sony's other big selling point now is 3D, with games looking all impressive and jumping right at you to grab you by the throat. This is all fine and dandy, except for the fact that you need a 2 grand+ 3D television and a 150 dollar pair of 3D glasses (which I can hardly balance on top of my own glasses, and will tire my eyes out after about an hour).
Nintendo then announced their own 3D proposition, the 3DS. It's main selling point, it has 3D visuals WITHOUT the need of glasses. Frankly it looks damn impressive, and was sure to give some Sony executives a stroke.
So all in all the Sony PS3 has all the same features that its competitors have, but just a little less impressive, a little less innovative, a little more awkward.
Thank god it has Blu-ray support.
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