grandmaster192 said: What do you think is Sony's strength, Bod? |
That's a whole other thread (which I may make soon, but in general I think they have several, that have evolved over time. The two most prominent are:
1) Balance. They have good third party relations, good first party support, good innovation (yes, they have innovated, for those who'd like to argue otherwise).
2) Integration: from things like Singstar (using their Sony music labels to pluck songs for these games. It's the reason there aren't any serious Singstar imitators: it seems like a genre that would be so easy to copy, but no one has easy access to the vast music library that Sony does), to DVD (yes, for those who don't know, Sony owns some patents on DVD too) to Blu Ray, and even to the fact that an HD console will automatically drive sales of Sony HD televisions, everything about their infrastructure is intregrated. Every PS3 sale is a Blu Ray player sale, a DVD player sale, a potential TV sale, and a chance for Sony to exercise their vast movie/music library, all in one.
I can go in to more detail, Grandmaster, but that's a starting place. I'll start another thread with this soon, since this thread is about Microsoft :p
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