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Machiavellian on 18 March 2014
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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Machiavellian said:
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:


MS Fans LOVE to bring up last gen because they can't deal with the reality of this one, Sony fcked up in when they released the PS3, but at least the realized and turned it around. Now you've got Shu Yoshida responding to tweets and making youtube videos in response to MS's PR and MS is just letting it happen.

I counter this point by saying that Sony had absolutly no choice.  Sony went into the PS3 gen with a whole lot of confidence.  They started to eat and continued to eat a whole lot of humble pie during that generation.  Lost billions which made it even worst since the company other products were not selling as well.

On your last point about Yoshida making tweets and videos against their competitor and the competitor does nothing about it, you should ask yourself why.  Go back in time and look at other companies that did the same thing.  Case in point would be Pepsi vs Coke.  Notice that Coke never made any commercial about Pepsi but thats all Pepsi did was make comercials about Coke.  

The reason is because its a position of weakness.  When you are spending time trying to bring down your competitior instead of bringing up your own product, you show a weakness in your commitment to the value of your product.  When a competitor is on top, they do not waste money promoting their competitor.  Instead they will spend that mony to promote their products further.  to mention your competitor is to show weakness in the market thus giving them cred.

Its not about Sony, its about Microsoft. The PS4 didn't bring down the Xbox 1, its just one side actually listened to consumers. And so what if Sony had no choice. That's good. Since when did consumers care about how dominant their platform of choice is and not be concerned about the games. Pardon me, If I fail to see how cater to a company is better than them catering to me.

If MS has to lose a couple billions of dollars to get their act together, so be it. They need to learn that consumers run the industry, not the companies.

We have to differ because Sony did not "listen to consumers".  Instead they listened to their profits and revenue.  Nothing Sony has done was in the interest of consumers unless it has a positive impact on profit and revenue.  Out of desperation and competition, Sony changed for the better but to continue to think it was becausde of consumers really miss how huge corporations like Sony work.

It makes a big difference if a company is on top and make changes that benefit customers instead of when they are on the bottom and must make those changes to survive.  It means once they gain the top again, then old business practices come back (which I have already seen a few happening).

@Bolded:  Did you not critize MS for trying to do the same thing???

On your last point, MS already lost a couple billion and they have changed their tone, polices and practices.  In other words, MS and Sony are no different.  Desperation and competition make corporations change their tune not customers.  When either is on top, the last thing either think about is customer satisfaction over company objectives.