Squilliam said:
I retort with the blind assertion that Sony is following the path of General Motors. 1. Rely on brand name and past success. 2. Release vehicles unsuitable to the market conditions. 3. Be unable to change due to management inertia 4. Discount said vehicles heavily to maintain market share/production but post massive losses. 5. Go bankrupt at the first sign of industry wide trouble. 6. Get bailed out by the government. P.S. If the Xbox 360 was following the same path of HD-DVD it wouldn't have lasted for four years, actually post two years of profit and it wouldn't still be selling now would it? This generation DVD beat Blu Ray btw if you count the install base of the Wii + 360 combined and compare it to the PS3. No I don't want Sony to fail. I just think that everyones getting too optimistic about things so I decided to provide doses of reality like the fact that the Wii is still more successful than any console previously released and that the Sony / Microsoft business models suck. Sonys is the original suckyness of the razor/blade mentality and Microsofts is a slightly improved but still sucky model next to the Nintendo model of 'how things are meant to be done'. |
i agree on bolded part .. but on italic part i partially agree.. they didnt discount heavily.. They said that Playstation brand is going to be profitable. but definitely they need to keep the market share, they cant ignore it altogether. and they went with the wrong product which they cant kill either.. Whole infrastructure is developed behind it from online servers to graphic engine. So its a bit different than vehicle business.
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