First time in history. The propecy has spoken! PS4 Doomed?

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Actually "Sony is the best cursed company in the world" is an historically true statement.

Sony backed Betamax vs VHS, Betamax died, but Sony survived.

Sony backed the minidisc vs the compact disc, minidisc died, Sony survived.

Sony backed its proprietary memory stick vs the generic SD card, memory stick is dead, except for its resurrection as a Vita memory card which still makes it mortally wounded, Sony survived.

Sony backed Blu-ray, Blu-ray survived, but in an age where people are increasingly going digital and not buying discs Blu-ray almost cost Sony it's PS3 brand, but the curse certainly meant PS brand lost its position of absolute dominance in home consoles. And but for the GFC and the collapse of its TV sales Sony would have survived quite well instead of running a number of years of losses. Indeed perhaps the lesson here is that when Sony's newly backed tech wins (on paper) the universe conspires to make Sony, as a whole, lose.

Sony IS cursed but it seems to have succeeded all these years despite this. There's no reason to think Sony will do otherwise for the foreseeable future.

The advantage this time with PS4, which should prevent the curse destroying PS4 or Sony, is unlike the previous examples Sony isn't trying to use PS4 as a Trojan horse to introduce any of its proprietary, and expensive, new technology.

PS1 and CD, and PS2 and DVD avoided the product / format curse because Sony wasn't introducing anything new, they were backing formats that had already established themselves as the next wave of entertainment distribution.

So, hate to burst your whimsical bubble, but an historical truth is not evidence of future failure.