Yahoo already writing PSP off

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leo-j said:

cdude1034 said:

leo-j said:
The media hates sony beyond the fanboys themselves.

The way I remember it, they were kissing some Sony ass before the PS3 came out. As soon as it became apparent it wasn't gonna go anywhere, that's when they turned. It doesn't help that the PSP's competition is a friggin' juggernaut. The DS still sells out today within minutes at my Gamestop.

Get on that bandwagon, baby!

 

 Ive been on the nintendo bandwagon since 2004.. I have a ds.

Honestly that last quote is a fucking annoying quote, because that quote is what may be killing the playstation brand as a whole.

 

Sony in killing the Playstation brand in the interest of short term profit. This has been undeniable for a while now Leo-J. The common defense is "brandname isn't that important, look at the Wii shift from last gen."

...of course I can go into my spiel if you want, but not only would that seriously derail the topic, it would also be repetitive. Let me suffice it to say that the Playstation brand would have been much better off this generation were Blu-Ray not riding on its back, were Sony able to keep some semblance of any large 3rd party IP somehow attached to their brand name, and were Sony to focus their vast gaming fortune on many games over many genres instead of one big FPS game that is a sequel to a very bad FPS game.

Right now, if I could go back in time and run Sony, right now, the PS3 would be operating at a profit, have better(imo)/more exclusives on the horizion, and at least 1 big 3rd party game would be associated with the Sony brandname, still.

Hindsight is 20/20, however, and you must keep in mind, Sony decided to take this route. They chose to support Blu-Ray at the obvious expense of their gaming division and the Playstation namebrand. The hole they dug themselves financially with their longsightedness at BR's potential success, forced them to make poor short term decisions in order to stay afloat. There are no more Final Fantasy's for Sony. AAA 3rd party brand associated exclusives were always a finite resource, and Sony has squandered them, with the damage control of "We're concentrating on first party publishers." Now they're competing with Nintendo and Microsoft. Good luck with that in the future Sony. Their brand name won't help them next gen, that's for sure. Not unless they rebuild it...but look at me ramble on. I wasn't supposed to be discussing such poingniant matters.