The same thing all consoles did. Exclusive games that just worked. No troubleshooting, no settings tweaking, no "will this work on this version of Windows/Direct X/ etc.?" Every game for that console worked on that console.
Its values was simplicity and exclusive games. Unfortunately they made their games more and more troublesome to get running (by trying to make every console a multipurpose family center) while PC made theirs more seamless, and then the exclusives got fewer.
Predictable. That's not a selling point, I'm sorry.
games that just worked
That one I'll give you, but that was every console. However: Final Fantasy XI. Anyone who has ever had to set up a Play Online account knows exactly what I'm alluding to.
That's a different question from consoles turning into shitty PCs.
At the time it had better default controllers for the games. More hardware and better performance for less cost than a similar PC.
The PS3 had a better balance with it's online features compared to the xbox360 or later consoles.
They've consistently been the only console company worth a damn for decades. Everyone else was only ever a shitty PC vendor.
Sony was half decent until the PS4.
What did Sony offer that a PC didn't?
The same thing all consoles did. Exclusive games that just worked. No troubleshooting, no settings tweaking, no "will this work on this version of Windows/Direct X/ etc.?" Every game for that console worked on that console.
Its values was simplicity and exclusive games. Unfortunately they made their games more and more troublesome to get running (by trying to make every console a multipurpose family center) while PC made theirs more seamless, and then the exclusives got fewer.
Predictable. That's not a selling point, I'm sorry.
That one I'll give you, but that was every console. However: Final Fantasy XI. Anyone who has ever had to set up a Play Online account knows exactly what I'm alluding to.
That's a different question from consoles turning into shitty PCs. At the time it had better default controllers for the games. More hardware and better performance for less cost than a similar PC. The PS3 had a better balance with it's online features compared to the xbox360 or later consoles.