Sony: The Dumbest Guys in the Room

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huaxiong90 said:

slowmo said:

jneul said:
^^From what I heard m$ knew about the xbox 360 problems for a long time before finally trying to fix it, not trolling, just what i read

It wasn't a long time before launch but it was early enough that they could have delayed the launch.  The issue was they misunderstood how bad the problem was, they believed it was mainly a manufacturing problem, not design like it eventually turned out to be.  One thing that is certain, it should never have launched.

Do you think they would've made it to where they are today if they hadn't launched early?

I think that yes they could have launched 6 months later and still had a 6 month jump on Sony to get a strong userbase in the US.  Whether that 6 months would have fixed the issue I'm not so sure though.  The question is moot though as nobody, including Sony expected the PS3 to be so late to the market.  It's all hypothetical anyway though, had they launched 6 months later and had the reliability they have right now then I think they may have actually had a product that could have made the PS3 stillborn.  The 360 looks like it benefitted heavily from the headstart but the RROD issue has also caused so much bad press it has cost millions in sales too.

As I said though, thats a lot of ifs.  If they released later and still had the reliability problems then the 360 would be trailing by a similar margin it is now leading the PS3 I would guess.  The one thing that Sony did very well in the late launch of the PS3 was keeping the problems they were having in manufacturing under wraps long enough to deter some first year buyers of the 360 who waited for the PS3.