The Man who put Sony back on Top of Video Games

[Cloudman]

danasider said:

Cloudman said:
Shuhei Yoshida seems like a cool and likable guy, but I feel like they give him a little too much credit, especially the PS4. It seems to me that the PS4 is being praised for doing the safest things, such as a standard more powerful system with some extra features, and no DRM, which should be a standard. I think it benefited more that MS blundered so badly with the XB1, and Ninten messed up with their unique feature, poor marketing, and lack of power compared to the other 2. I don`t think that is very great to be honest. Also, I don`t like how suddenly people are so positive with sony and the PS4 when they had a terrible time in the previous gen for a good while. Everything is forgiven and they`re liked again after one rough last generation? Alright then... Well, the same thing is happening with Ninten (Great Wii success. Now doomed to fail due to the Wii U) I don`t know, I`d divide the praise to Cerny, Andrew, or other big names than just Shuhei. I will give him credit for helping indies get a rise in the industry.

I don't think "suddenly people are positive with sony". They did have a terrible release last generation, but Sony did a lot of things to earn back the consumer's trust. I think the positivity is a mixture of doing all the things the developers/consumers wanted with PS4 as well as having a growing momentum with their brand at the end of PS3's life cycle.

Nintendo, comparably, did the opposite. It was huge out the gate, but the company didn't do enough to keep their audience and then the Wii U came out and didn't deliver the experiences/technology that the dwindling Wii users wanted. Even though it was the best selling console of it's generation, Wii's annual sales were well below X360 and PS3 the last few years showing the interest/brand-loyalty was fading.

I think this is a good thing. Blind brand-loyalty doesn't keep the companies competitive. If a company can do so many things to regain the trust of the consumer, they deserver all the positivity they can get. I say this not as a fan of companies, but because I enjoy gaming and technology.

I think the difference between the Wii and the PS3 was that the Wii saw success at the start, which Nintendo and other companies worked to provide as much as they could with the Wii until they eventually exhausted it, while the PS3 took awhile to get its momentum. The Wii slowing down was just a natural progression of doing as much as they could with the console until they used up all their ideas. PS3's biggest strides looked to be towards the end of its life cycle.

I still can't give the PS4 a lot of praise for essentially doing the most standard and safest thing this generation. Now if they did something like the Wii, I would give them props. I do give my props for Nintendo for trying something new again, even if it didn't work out for them.