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[Squilliam]

CCFanboy said:

Squilliam said:
Sony needs to really do things which neither Microsoft nor Nintendo are doing. Nintendo did Wiimote so they did Move, Nintendo does SSBB so they did PSAS, Nintendo does Mario Kart so they did LBK and Nintendo has Mario so they tried to make Sack-boy a mascot. 

Well said man. Its no wonder sony are falling behind. Yeah you can say eye toy but kinect actually has more interesting features in it then the simple thing sony came up with.

Its like sony is seeing what works for everyone else and following them. But the others do well because they are being original. Also sony don't really have any true mascot. Microsoft has master chief and nintendo has mario. To me sony are just doing all these 'new ips' they are being praised for just because they haven't found something that sells on the scale of gran turismo and a car doesn't really cut it for the face of your system. Sony are pretty much turning into their own worst enemy.

They've got a few bad habits which have really let them down.

1. Not seeing things through to the end. They essentially stopped development of the Eyetoy even though it was popular and showed potential. Microsoft took the concept of the Eyetoy and got billions in revenue that by all rights ought to have belonged to Sony.

2. Following after other companies and trying to copy their successes.

3. Not being bold enough to take things that they have developed in the lab and push them. They did create Move before Nintendo created the Wiimote but they didn't have the balls to push Move until Nintendo made billions off the Wiimote. Why is it that Sony created the first good e-reader but when people think of them they say Kindle?

Sony aren't the company that made the PS1 anymore. They aren't the company that made the walkman anymore. Why is it a company which has more talent than Microsoft and Nintendo put together in the games arena (overall) between hardware engineers and software engineers as well as natural advantages from past success with gaming getting their arses handed to them by these two companies?