Did sony defeat themselves this generation?

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Dodece said:
The problems is one of philosophy. Years before Sony even launched the PS3 they were following the wrong philosophy. There is a great wisdom in doing one thing at a time, and doing it well. Do what you are doing with integrity, and with a sense of purpose. Better yourself rather then preying upon others. Sony did none of these things. They had become the ugliest of conglomerates.

The PS3 became a bastard child born from cross divisional affection. Everyone put their hand in the pie. Sometimes their wants were totally out of line with what the console actually needed, and more often then not they were at cross purposes. This has been explained at length. Needless to say the goal was not to build the next generation of the console. The goal was to build a product that could sell everything that needed market penetration. The loyal consumer be damned they were to be enslaved.

Which leads into integrity and purpose. The upper echelon at Sony has little of these. When you have no respect for the consumer, and are actually predatory towards your fellow executives it is of little wonder that your aimless, and lack a moral compass. Which is a truly poor way to run a company, but these guys aren't happy pissing on the door to the corner office marking their territory. Oh no they want to share their misanthropic view on the rest of humanity through bad acts.

Sony has no morality clause that I have been able to see. Their executives blatantly lie to consumers, media, and probably investors. They are quick to fleece, and rarely admit to their misdeeds. They even engage in criminal activity in the name of Sony. That is how god awful the supervision has actually become. So its no wonder they sabotaged the PS3 through their own self serving nonsense. This behavior also poisoned the water. Screw enough consumers, and your going to find yourself with a legion of enemies.

So we have self serving, misanthropic bastards running the divisions. You can see how these guys are bound to run whatever they get their hands on right into the ground. Well if you cannot better yourself its well worth the money to buy someone better. Then run them into the ground, and use the money you made off them to buy someone else, and run them into the ground. This works fantastically as long as the money holds out, or until your division is bloated with non performers.

The problem wasn't that Sony shot themselves in the foot. The problem was that they were drunk on excesses long before they got around to mutilating their next console. The bottom line is that the executives at Sony are accountable, but more to the point they should have been reigned in years ago before they savaged everything.

 

So true.