Sony Worst Moves in History

[gigantor21]

People have already mentioned most of the good ones.

- The PS3's initial price was stupid--not just for how high it was, but WHY it was so high. Neither the Blu-ray support nor the Cell's vaunted supercomputer chops did anything to convince people it was worth the premium over the 360. It wasn't until costs came down and more solid exclusives started coming out that people were willing to give it a chance. I still feel like the system would've been a much better sell even at $600 had they not been blinded by their greed over hawking proprietary tech, and focused on raw power devs could sink their teeth into right away.

- The Vita had a similar problem. In this case, the Vita itself is a wonderful piece of tech, but the competition it faces from Nintendo in the handheld space is even stiffer than what the PS3 faced with the Wii. Boneheaded decisions like the extortionate memory prices on top of a launch price that matches the PS3 served only to cut the Vita's nose off to spite it's face. Thus you see devs sticking with the 70 million PSP owners already around, or going to the 3DS instead, seeing little incentive to take a chance on a handheld that most of the market has shrugged at.

- The Go...oh God, the PSP Go. WHO at Sony told ANYONE that putting out a new PSP that doesn't take UMDs is a good idea? I can understand it with the Vita (although I don't like it) since that's a whole new console. But the Go is built to run goddamned PSP games! Ugh...

- The Move. NOTHING screamed "we're flailing desperately in a sea of red ink and incompetence" than that mess. Where was the sea of PS3 owners clamoring for an add-on that let them use motion controls? Because I sure as shit didn't see it. At least the Kinect tried something different from Nintendo in that space. The whole thing just had "Sega 32x" painted all over it.

Sony made a bunch of moves this gen that pretty much broke my faith in them. My younger days as a diehard Sony fanboy seem so long ago now.