bardicverse on 13 October 2008
| megaman79 said: Was MS particularly successful as a software company reaching into video game consoles? No, Google will fuck it up just like their mobile phone won't do much business. This is an interesting debate, why did Sony do as well as they did? Why should toy manufacturers (sega) be more relevent to console design? What the hell did Nintendo do before videogames? make playing cards? I dk, maybe Sony did aswell as they did because their experience in industrial design gave them the console / controller design edge. |
Sony had a different edge - they already were into consumer electronics (and I think computers too) prior to the Playstation consoles. So they already were used to producing electronics and especially CD players (and eventually DVD players too). I think of all the companies around, Sony had the biggest advantage going into the field.
