Why Sony (Playstation) is not doomed

[Shinobi-san]

Andrespetmonkey said:

slowmo said:
So bleeding billions this last 6 years means all is fine with the PlayStation brand.  No. I acknowledged the devastating PS3 launch - and it was 4 years, not 6. You guys are starting to sound as misguided as Sega fans were towards the end. If drastic changes aren't made in strategy then yes they are in trouble, we will know more when the PS4 is released though. Drastic changes have been made, I gave examples and they were major points in the article. Did you even read it?

I gotta disagree with the "drastic changes" statement. They havnt really done that much to turn things around. The major thing they done was bring down the price...and really this isnt that drastic considering they were selling the ps3 pretty cheaply from the get go (by cheaply i mean compared to how much the ps3 actually costed to make). Apart from that and a few nice 1st party titles Sony has, like MS, relied heavily on 3rd party support. And like you said in your OP, the playstation 3 will end up selling close to 100 million units and this is despite how badly sony has messed up. The playstation brand was that strong. And because of this 3rd parties could not ignore the user base.

Sony have done things like offer PSN+, and a pretty varied first party lineup but other than that i dont see much drastic changes. The ps3 would have sold fine without those things.

If you look at the PSV launch it pretty much tells you exactly whats happening at sony, they dont have much ideas going forward to really be successful. We seeing this with just about all their products. Whether its tablets, smarphones, cameras, video recorders, hell just about any of the products they make they are unable to create a mass apeal product. And its been like this for quite sometime.

Its really frustrating, as a sony fan you can see all the potential they have...yet they dont seem to capitalise on it. This really does fall in with the lack of cooperation between the divisions at sony...you would think sony would be the ones to rival apple but they are the ones who are falling the furthest behind.

The psv is the perfect example...like you said such perfect hardware crammed into the device and cutting edge no less.Hell the PSV remains the most powerfull mobile device a year a nd a bit after its release. Thats amazing in this day and age. But look at all the things it got wrong: price, lack of software, pricey software, inconvenient product to have, big size, cant play android games..theres even more smaller issues that are just irritating. And you could say "ok but Sony has learnt from this now" No. This happend with the psp...6, 7 years later they go and do the same thing.

It really is tough though, the market is hitting them from every angle...but i still feel they are their own worse enemy. Until they sort out their company from the inside things are always gonna be the way they are.