Sony: We Will Conquer All

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Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

HappySqurriel said:

Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

As BS as this whole PR thing is(which isn't surprising...I mean, no matter the company...PR is usually annoying), that part is surprisingly true in my experience. Most of my friends that have already gone to next-gen systems have all gone to the 360 or Wii...but all my friends that stayed behind with the PS2 to make a choice later are wanting a PS3. He's not talking about the people that have already switched, but the people that stayed with the PS2. It sounds BS...but all my friends that did stay behind with the PS2 are starting to want a PS3 over the Wii and 360. Don't shoot down that quote just yet...he might be right that as the PS2 gradually dies, the ones left behind with it might come in a mass herd toward the PS3.

 

There might still be quite a bit that go toward the 360 or Wii...but reading that quote made me think about all my friends still with the PS2. And I think it's interesting he might be right about that...having a lot of potential customers still with the PS2.

You will always have a segment of the population that is brand loyal, but there really isn't that many of them ...

As an example, one of my friends owned a walkman, discman and a minidisc player and refuses to buy an iPod because it isn't produced by Sony; until the iPod was released he never seemed to care much about Apple at all and now they're the devil for producing a piece of hardware people actually wanted. Even though Sony was super popular with their portable music players for decades this didn't prevent Apple from comming along and dominating the MP3 player market when they produced the right product ...

 That's different...this is a new generation that hasn't been around long at all. There are still a lot of people that haven't moved to the next generation yet. A lot of PS2 users are still undecided. This is the point I'm making...in my case, what he said in that quote is true. All of my friends that stayed behind with the PS2 want a PS3 over the 360 and Wii...this is just in my case though. I'd have to go around and meet a lot of other people that stayed with the PS2 to confirm this.

Well, that's fine, but I personally know two people who only owned PS2's last gen and only own (and intend to own) Wii's.  I don't know anyone else who owns or intends to own a PS3.

 

And yes, in PR, you're actually seen in a BETTER light if you praise the competition and then show how you're better than them.  If Sony were to say, "The competition has a very nice lineup of games this year, but we think ours is better", (for example), then they wouldn't be seen as so idiotic.