Doing Great with PS3... faltering with PSP. What happened?

[steverhcp02]

Zucas said:

CGI-Quality said:

steverhcp02 said:
Sonys spread too thin. They have no direction still with the PSP. The reason the PS3 is rebounding is the price, and clear advertising. Sure the slogan is "everything" but the ads are funny, they show games, they show a movie, they show the PSN.

PSP commercials show college kids in threesomes and it costs more than a wii or 360 for the Go.

Just botched direction.

Oh and the DS is the commander of the handhelds.

As well thought out as this entire post is, this last sentence is all that needs to be said.

Well although I agree with that notion, Wii is also a monster and yet Sony is still showing it can compete there.  It's arguable that if the marketing and software and confidence push had not been put into the PS3 Slim (especially with that eventual Wii pricecut) that it would have gone the same way of the PSP Go. 

I'm not trying to get at that PS3 or PSP will ever overtake their market leaders.  I just want to try and figure out why they would try such aggressive moves in both markets and completely fail on one end for their own reason and then succeed with flying colors on the other side also by their own reasons.  Yes some maybe even a majority has to do with the situations of the markets, but shouldn't the mentality for both still have been the same?

No. The PS3 carries BD which sony has tie ins to. The PS3 routinely is capable of driving software WW. The PS3is still in a place where it can challenege in terms of marketshare.

Its actually finally a smart business move by Sony to start driving the PS3 and focus on something that has a higher ceiling in terms of profitability long term.