Apple has the power of Brand loyalty. That is what keeps them there. You build something good up for years. People fall in love. No matter how little they do, it's godly.

Strangely enough, I expected this to be a Kowen thread.

First.. Eyetoy is not like a wii-mote.. (if Nintendo got inspired from anything.. it would be the fish rod from sega)

on topic.. it's the same as when sony made thiere first consol.. and begun to make the platstation..  Just becurse you are first, other can stil join the party..

I would also say.. Sony do some things good.. and other things very bad.. They had a lot of "missers" recent years (tv, pc, mobil, psp go, vita, formats and other) actully only thing they do good (imo) is when it comes to playstation.. (and mayby movie/music.. don't know if they make money of that.. and that is not so much becourse of sony.. but more the position they have.. the industry runs iself )  I think kaz.. is all about the game" :)

Well sometimes they introduce products too late or early. Like the Xperia phones were great but 3 years late, and Samsung and Apple had already become dominant in the market. I think they are kinda unlucky. MS is too. I think I read somewhere that they made touchscreen phones and devices a long time before the Iphone.

The difference is that the Xperia 3 was better than its rivals in every way, and MS's first tablets and touchscreen phones sucked hard.

I have always thought Sony missed the boat with PlayStation. PlayStation was the smartbox, and PSP was the smartphone way before any of these devices ever came out. The problem like has been said, is they always stop just short of letting it reach full potential.

In the case of home PlayStation models, they should have had way better support for non gaming apps for year, but they never have really pushed the platform. Having a great Web browser, flash, PDF support, an office like suite of software, they could have went toe to toe with apple, google, and microsoft. In this case the userbase would only be bigger, their hardware more influential, and software support would have been much better all around. I don't know if they held thibgs back to not hurt the Vaio brand, or just did not see the oppertunity, but they missed the market by a mile. I think PS4 is a saving grace that could put them in contention if played right, but only time will tell.

On the portable PlayStation front they had the PSP which people screamed to make into a smartphone years before iPhone or Android. Again they missed the boat. I think this is hugly due to the mobile partenership they had, but it hurt them badly. If they had stuck back then apple and google would be no where near what they are today.

Hopefully with Kaz at the helm PlayStation can turn into what it always should have been. Behind a PlayStation Home console, and a PlayStation Phone, Sony would have their own OS, and their own digital store which would pull in billions if not trillions in revenue. With the profits from that they would have all knids of room to play with TV, tablets, and whatever else, and all of it should be built on the Sony ecosystems which would feed right back into the company.

Funnily enough they're similar to Nintendo when it comes to anything but games.

Ur right. You sound like a total fanboy.

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Sony with Apple and Google? I needed a laugh; thank you!

meanwhile they're trying to sell an expensive walkman to a niche audience.