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Mummelmann on 08 February 2008
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disolitude said:
ssj12 said:
disolitude said:
ssj12 said:
Ken Kutoragi also received the Lifetime Achievement Award.


Nice Job Ken, You deserve it.

Why does he deserve it? Not like Sony got to where they are with smart management and creative ideas. They bullied their way in to the console market and pushed everyone around since they had the biggest wallet. The whole "losing money" on a console was started by Sony and has made impossible for smaller (most likely more creative) companies to compete.

Thats until someone came along just as big and started pushing back. He doesn't look so hot since...


You have no idea what your talking about. Sony was brought into the console market thanks to Nintendo so blame Nintendo for Sony being #1 for 2 generations.

Ken received the award because he successfully expanded the game industry to the massive industry it is today.

Everyone knows the Sony/Nintendo saga which was unfortunate for both parties as that could have been a legendary partnership.

Yes Sony did expand the industry greatly...but so did Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys when it comes to music industry. You don't see them getting awards for their achievements. The videogames pie has gotten bigger for sure but it doesn't taste any better in my opinion.

All I'm saying is that if Nintendo didn't come up with the brilliant idea that is the Wii they'd probably be gone software side like Sega, mainly thanks to the arms race started by Sony and Ken who still believes 8 CPU's on a processor means better console.


Microsoft actually has a copyright on that opinion, or at least; they did last gen, being sure that more horsepower could win them the market. And come on! You won't give Sony any credit whatsoever? Being a gamer and not recognizing what Sony did is just not possible. It'd be the same to state that Apple, Asus, Dell, Acer etc never made a positive impact on the PC industry. How slowly would chips and electronics be developed if there was no competition? Slow as hell is how slow.

Nintendo started the console adventure, along with Atari. Sony's Playstation did not "bully" the others out of bussiness, it was rather "bullied" into existence by the current console makers of the time. And its success was not due to bullying either, it simply showed that the industry was going a bit stale and needed something different, much like many (probably including you) feel that the Wii is needed now. And about the quality issues; are there really no Sony franchises worth mentioning? How the hell did they sell 220 million + consoles then?! Just because you're a first at something does not mean you're the best. Take Cadillac for instance; they were actually the very first car manufacturer in the world to build a saloon car with four wheel drive, yet they're no exactly the worlds prime 4-wheel drive specialists, are they (Look it up, Audi did the same, only 20 years later and only on a rally car at first)?

Okay, might be a strange analogy, but it gets the point across. Bottom line is; as a gamer one can hate Sony as much as one wants, but as a gamer one should also appreciate and recognize the vast favours they've made the industry as a whole. If you spin the coin for a while, you'll realize that without PS1 and PS2, there'd be no Wii, and probably no x-box or 360 either, so give thanks through gritted teeth if you must, but give thanks even still.