Sony's early announcement give Microsoft too much time to respond. ex. Home

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I agree on certain fronts. Sony does announce things far too early sometimes. Yet It does help with some things. When you announce things early(such as Home) you get feedback faster. This allows you to assess whether the audience is even all that interested in what you have. If they aren't, then what can you do to fix that? From their corrections/fixes can be made, that normally would not have been possible if you waited too late. That is the sort of thing that causes RROD/EJ4 issues(no offense).

Although it does work against them on others. Companies have plenty of time to retaliate against Sony's big guns, not a good thing at all. Yet I think Sony is a tad more aware of this of late.