What does Sony need to do to win next gen on consoles?

[rottingcorpse1]

kitler53 said:

kurasakiichimaru said:

kitler53 said:
sony is probably going to be a lot worse off next gen -- they should just give up. in today's market it is the software/services that are making money not the hardware. as long as sony still positions itself first and foremost as a hardware company that makes some software instead of a software company that also makes some hardware they are going to lose more and more ground as time marches on.

This doesn't make sense at all.

You're saying it as if they aren't making money off of software when it was software sales that kept them floating when they can't have any profit from the hardware. Sure, their main exclusives are not selling as well as Nintendo or MS but they aren't crawling on the dirt either.

also @rottingcorpse...

i might not of have been clear, i didn't mean games.  since we are talking about what the ps4 system what i meant was the software as a platform in the ps4: psn and the ps4 OS mostly.   from the psn outage blunder to their inability to find a way to implement key features like cross-game chat among many other things sony has shown an inability to push the interface of their platform.  as such MS is always going to be ahead of them and sony is always going to be playing catch up imo.  that's not a winning strategy.  games are important too but sales show that the market (ps2 and ps3 both) do not care much about sony's first party.  :/

Ah yeah, that was one of my points as well. Though it was one of my lower points, frankly I don't think it's the most important thing, I think if they made a cheap system with great games people would get over it, but it should be easy enough to fix this time around so there's really no excuse not to.