Aj_habfan said:
Tridrakious said:
Aj_habfan said:
KBG29 said:
Signalstar said:
Kinda ruined by the fact that Stringer is still CEO. Things have gone from shit to shit under his reign. Not a good show for the company's first foreign president. |
It turns my stomach knowing that Playstation was the iBrand product long before iPhone, iPod, ect. Yet in the last 7 years this guy has let Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung completely dominate it. Sony was so far ahead with PS2 and at the launch of PSP they could have done a bad job and still have never let iPhone, iPad, Android, Xbox, Windows Phone7 ever get anywhere. However, they didn't do just a bad job, they basically self destructed.
Hopefully Kaz will actually get a unified product line streamlined, and start taking advantage of what is left of Sony.
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The man in your avatar is also partly responsible for the downfall.
But Stringer talked big, especially after taking over Sony Corp a couple years ago, and it seems like he hasn't accomplished much.
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Ken Kutaragi-san is not to blame for any of the problems Sony faced. He is a true visionary. I true genious. He called for the delay of the system from early 2006 to November 2006 because Sony needed to figure out their manufacturing issues with the PS3. He refused to launch the system.
The exes higher up than him made the call that the PS3 was going to launch whether Kutaragi-san wanted it to or not in November. That's why he publicly came out and said that Sony was not in any position to successfully launch the PS3 this year. He doubted the ability of Sony in regards to fixing the manufacturing problems plaguing Sony's Blu-Ray development.
There are very few people who blame Ken Kutaragi-san. For the ones who do, don't remember 2006 very well. Howard Stringer has screwed the company over and he is to blame for the self destruction we've witnessed. Kutaragi-san was forced out by Stringer, because Kutaragi-san was also competing for the same position Stringer got in 2005. Kutaragi-san was tasked with turning around the failing electronics division (mainly turning around Bravia) while Stringer was tasked with expanding the media connections.
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Ken was a brilliant man, and did so many great things, but he lost his mind with the PS3. Hardware was way over the top, and the amount of ridiculous quotes coming from him was just embarassing. As much as you claim he did to help the PS3 launch, ultimately he was the one that set it up for failure.
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Well you may say he lost his mind with the PS3, but it is a powerful machine that had a very bright future. It truly is a remarkable system. It didn't get to shine the way it should have because of the self-destruction of Sony
If he had his way the PS3 wouldn't have launched in 2006. It would have been delayed til they got it right on the manufacturing level, but there were pressures from higher ups (Howard Stringer) that wanted the system out. At the end of the day he could only push so much. He attempted to say whatever he could to get consumers out to buy the system. Game developers were saying they weren't ready for a November launch and games were getting pushed back.
He teachs now as a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University while running Cellius as the CEO, which works on Cell Processor applications (first product from them is the new Ridge Racer Vita game, hmm). He launched the company after he "retired" in 2007. He also launched Cyber AI Entertainment.
So he is still very, very active.
