Let''s take a step back into the current console generation, and reminisce on the fact that SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT gained a lot by loosing a lot..for example:
Sony probably realized when the ps3 began to fall into a very very fairly distant third place that being a cocky company isn''t always a good thing.... saying things like WE ARE THE MARKET LEADER(even though they were), and announcing that THE NEXT GENERATION DOESN''T START UNTIL WE SAY IT DOES, made them very cocky, then again at the time the playstation 2 did reach and surpass the 100 MILLION CONSOLE MILE STONE THAT ONLY 3 PURE VIDEO GAME SYSTEMS HAVE HIT, TWO OF WHICH ARE PLAYSTATION SYSTEMS, either way, sony did fall behind, and making claims that people would get a secound job to buy a playstation 3 for $600 us dollars, and over 1000 us dollars in other countries wasn't very wise.... hence they lost hundreds of millions on a ps3 that wasn't selling much software at the time to recoup the cost of the system, and a ps3 that was selling on par if not below GBA numbers while the DS was hitting it's prime..... in summary SONY LEARNED THAT LAUNCHING AT A HIGH PRICE AND EXPECTING THE WORLD TO BUY YOUR VIDEO GAME SYSTEM AUTOMATICALLY JUST BASED ON BRAND NAME, AND ALLOWING MICROSOFT TO NUT CHECK YOU WITH DIRTY ADVERTISING IS GOING TO GET YOU TO LOSE A LOT IF NOT ALMOST ALL THE MARKET SHARE YOU HAD IN THE GAMING INDUSTRY JUST 6-7 YEARS AGO....... and..... fall into 3rd place, looking like a loser cocky company that get''s what it get''s for being cocky.....
- because sony fell into 3rd place, sony gained a lot.... besides the fact they know being cocky, and launching at a high price was suicide, especially with two potential AAA ip for the first 6 months with resistance and motorstorm being the only games driving your console....
BECAUSE OF THIS GEN AND THEIR FAILURES SONY ALLOWED THE CREATION OF NEW EXCLUSIVE PLAYSTATION FRANCHISES
RESISTANCE
UNCHARTED
HEAVENLY SWORD(after microsoft said fuck you to ninja theory)
WARHAWK/STARHAWK
MAG
LAST GUARDIAN
JOURNEY
FLOWer
FLOW
PIXEL JUNK
and more....
because of competition and struggling for surivial sony created HUGE HUGE game franchises..... one being UNCHARTED, which has sold nearly 20 million copiues on all platforms to date... and will probably hit 25-30 million if they stop releasing UNCHARTED games all together, which is huge.....
Sony allowed Assassins Creed to become multiplatform, as well as GTA, this probably allowed the funding for AC II AC III and more AC games to be made... because of the game''s multiplatform success.... AC is now in line with COD as one of the top 5 biggest selling franchises of this console generation.....
SONY in order to keep competitive killed of PS2 backwards compatibility to cheapen he ps3 up quickly.... but in result, gained HD COLLECTIONS, remastered HIGH DEFINITION versions of PLAYSTATION 2 original IP, like METAL GEAR SOLID 2/3, GOD OF WAR I and II, RESIDENT EVIL, SILENT HILL.... JAK AND DAXTER.... and more...... BECAUSE OF THE SUCCESS OF THE FIRST HD COLLECTION, GOD OF WAR HD COLLECTION, WHICH SOLD OVER 3 MILLION COPIES TO DATE.... 3RD PARTY COMPANIES HAVE TAKEN NOTE AND ARE RELEASING MORE HD COLLECTIONS ON BOTH PLAYSTATION 3 AND XBOX 360..... THIS IS INTRODUCING OLD PLAYSTATION 2 FRANCHISES, WITH TROPHIES/ACHIEVENEMNTS to new players.... in summary...... being competitive brought HD collections to this generation of consoles...... and sony are making smart ways of making money of ps2 games on psn..... without PS2 BC, people are having to buy PS2 games for 10 bucks.... meaning easy revenue for sony..... and everyone is happy since the games are made to work on ps3 almost perfectly... or should be...
what else can one add to this post? Share yout thoughts.... have sony become better through their failures with the playstation 3? Look at Vita...... getting huge ip on a constant basis right before E3 an after E3.... while psp had little ip to keep it going.... against the DS lite..
