| d21lewis said: Being totally frank, here: Sony NEVER understood gaming. From the horrendous Polygon Man advertising campaign on the PS1 to the launch of the PS2 without a single first party game to the total fuck-up of the PS3's launch, Sony never knew what they were doing. It's just that the competition just kept fucking up even more. You have no idea how much it pained me to sit back and say "What the hell, Nintendo? Why are you doing this!?" As they made one obviously boneheaded decision after another. Meanwhile, Sony sat at the top of the industry for doing absolutely nothing but making decent hardware and waiting for Rockstar, Capcom, Square, Konami, Namco, etc. to make the next big system seller. It was frustrating. Sony seems to be doing better these days but their obvious lack of focus has finally become apparent. It's lightening hard as hell outside! I'm getting the fuck off of the internet! |
Sony did plenty to make the PS1 and PS2 a success.
1. Strong reach to 3rd partys, it made the PS1 a huge successs. Sony tried very hard to get as many 3rd party titles on the system as they could.
2. Marketing to a more adult audience. Before the Playstation came out, mostly just kids played videogames. All of a sudden teenagers and adults were playing it too.
3. Cheap price, Sony kept the PS1 cheaper than either of it's competitors.
4. Making the PS2 more of a multimedia console, now people who weren't even interested in gaming were buying PS2s simply for DVDs.
You sound exactly like the gameoverthinker, saying Sony never knew what they were doing and became successful by accident. No, they did a lot of right and made plenty of innovative decisions. If they didn't know what they were doing the gaming would still be exclusive to nerdy kids sitting in their rooms. Just because Sony has made some very bad decisions recently doesn't mean they have NEVER understood gaming.
Sigs are dumb. And so are you!
