Sony in danger of losing game crown to Nintendo

[Dodece]

I find no fault with the author the reality is that Sony gaming dominance has been taken for granted, and still is be a great cross section of society. They are rather oblivious to the situation as it stands. Sony took a terrible gamble, and only now is the division turning towards break even, and it probably is not going to remain there. Neither Microsoft or Nintendo are bound to let Sony crawl back with their current hardware.

Do I find fault with Stringer not really he comes across as being thoroughly competent. After all he got his current job based upon his competency, and his strategy for the company in my opinion was the correct one. Sony had become too bloated and too diversified. Sometimes the conflicts of interest between divisions result in wasted effort. The hallmark of this problem is the PS3.

Which Stringer himself has pointed out on numerous occasions. He disliked the format wars, and felt they were needlessly wasteful. He was right Sony ended up bleeding itself forcing a format on the market. He was not too keen on the Cell processor, poor library support, or the high price of the system. He said these things numerous times.

What one feels when they read such comments is that while he disliked the situation it was too far gone by the time he arrived at Sony to do anything about. I suspect sometimes that he is the only one at Sony that makes anything approaching sense. He fully understood the problem with the PS3 right out of the gates, and more to the point he wasn't going to paint water colors about those problems.

When you think about it had Sony adopted a more conventional architecture. Had they come to an accord about future high definition media, and had they ensured that their hardware was reasonably priced. They could have even gotten more third parties on board. The console might have sold many more consoles at this point rather then becoming a massive money pit. Strangling the profitability out of an entire division.