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dishdash on 19 December 2007
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bugmenot said:
dishdash said:
rukusa said:
dishdash said:
As I'v said Hirai is just a Stringer yes man. And the ps3 to me is treading water at best. The original team that made the ps1 and ps2 have gone (amazing dont you think how Stringers spun this as a good thing?). All I'v seen since the new outfits took charge is Stringer/Hirai desperately dropping the price. There's no vision or plan to turn things around at all. Unless there's lots we're not being told. I expect next year to be more of the same.

Woah... except from Kutaragi's departure, I had no idea. Oh boy, if I knew this before I would've understood much better why the SCE department is in such shit like now.

Sony is fucking stupid for abusing the PS image. If youre right then its obviously because the current team are business oriented. The focus on games is lost, fuck. Sony, you keep making the wrong choices time after time, after time, I fucking hope 2008 will make them fucking fight for the life of the PS brand.


 

Kuturagi has been portrayed as the villain in all this. But supposedly the villain was Stringers constant interference. Unless Stringer makes the ps3 a success the truth will come out.

If you believe as I do, that all of Sony's problems are largely stemming from the ridiculous costs of producing PS3s, then I think you have to acknowledge that the fault lies with who designed it. Practically all of the design decisions were made before Stringer was elected CEO, almost all of them were executed by Kutaragi, and given how Stringer has turned Sony's other businesses around by making deep DEEP cutbacks, I think he's shown remarkable restraint in forcing cuts on PS3. He very easily could have forced cuts on Blu-ray, or the hard drive, or the spec of the RAM, or the number SPEs, or their order on the GPU's capacity, or their free online service, or their continued firmware development. He hasn't.

 

I wouldn't say Kutaragi is the vilain, just that he was replaced by his less reasonable twin brother, just like when Homer Simpson designed a car for his brother. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Brother%2C_Where_Art_Thou%3F


 

Well the truth about the ps3 we'l find out once Stringers gone.  Stringer was appointed chairman of  Sony precisely because he was foreign. And could make cuts that a Japanese chairman couldnt. Other than that his tenure is decidedly poor. Zero new hit products in his 2 and a half years in charge. As things stand he'l be known as an ultra conservative/safe chairman scared of taking risks. But I suppose that's what Sony wanted someone to steady the ship. And the next guy in charge will be expected to transform Sony. I'v got an inkling even though he says he wants to stay he'l be pushed at the end of this fiscal.