| FishyJoe said: Sony has to take a lot of the blame. They initially marketed the device as something that was good for playing movies and music. However, Sony in their infinite wisdom only gave the option of buying overpriced UMD movies. Who in their right mind would spend more money for a lower quality movie that they couldn't even use on any other device? It's that arrogance that motivated hackers to build tools so they could use their own legal dvds on their PSP, which in turn led to the development of game copying tools and hacking culture. Not only that, the UMD uses more power than flash memory. So using the device as intended actually decreases performance. |
Aha, well thats what Sony do. Charge more than everyone else for the same bloody thing. Hows their stock doing today?
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
