Sony is dumb

[Bodhesatva]

This is so silly. Sony is a good company -- I can say that, even though I really dislike the PS3 ><

I think this generation proves how significant the first 6 months after launch are. If the snowball doesn't roll just right from the very beginning, it won't get bigger, and it never catches up.

Sony made a few significant errors at or prior to launch -- most of which can be attributed to Kutaragi, a great engineer but a terrible marketer. I honestly believe that those few key mistakes (pricing, marketing and giving Microsoft a year's head start being the three major early errors, in my opinion) are all it took to put Sony where they are now.

This isn't a case of an entire company being stupid and full or morons who have no idea what they're doing. The lead designer of the system made a few critical errors, and that was all it took.

Instead of proving that "Sony is dumb," I think this generation proves something much more important -- the video game market is much more fragile than we'd come to believe. A few major mistakes at the critical launch period can cause anyone, no matter how dominant (Be it Atari, Nintendo back in the N64 days, or now Sony) to see their market share collapse from 70+ percent to 15 percent in the matter of a year.

A company doesn't have to be dumb to have that happen to them. Just a few slip ups at a bad time.