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Sony needed developers for the PlayStation. So they did a good job.

The PlayStation did so well a lot of people wanted the PlayStation 2. And because it worked as a cheap DVD player it sold extremely well.

Sony learned hard to program expensive exotic hardware does great!

PS3 arrives with hardware that’s even more expensive and even harder to program and gets a world of hurt.

So for the PlayStation 4 they tried to figure out what went wrong and realized they needed to make things real easy for developers. Success!

PlayStation 5, that PlayStation 4 four thing worked great let’s keep being nice to developers. Going very well.

The PS2 succeeded _in-spite_ of its problems. And Sony didn’t realize that.



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