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Sharpryno on 08 October 2015
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aLkaLiNE said:
Sharpryno said:

Tale of the underdog?  Do you know who Sony is? Do you know all of the shitty things they've done?  Implying Sony is not a corporation? 

 

 


Less than 6 years ago analysts were pegging Sony at a ~80% chance for Bankruptcy.  They were a shell of their former selves.  The fact that they managed this turn around is literally one of the most compelling comeback strategies we've witnessed this century.  Beyond that, MS has nearly held a globabl monopoly for two decades in the home PC space.  We know that Xbox was created with the primary focus to disrupt the home console space in an effort to stimmy Playstation sales.  We know that they hardly breed creative IP, opting instead to buy their marketshare instead of working for it.  We know that Microsoft, with a cash reserve of >$96 billion is losing to a company that has around $8 billion sitting in the bank.  For all intents and purposes of this discussion and my original post, they are the underdog. They have done basically nothing to thwart Microsoft or eliminate them from any market.  The inverse is not true.

 

I'd also like to know how I implied that Sony wasn't a corporation, or for that matter all the shitty things they've done.  As far as I'm aware they came under fire 15+ years ago for some DRM fiasco.  Other than that, we have the PSN outage which isn't a shitty thing a company can do, but is a shitty thing that can happen to a company - something they ammended as best they could by giving out free games to all affected in addition to the class action lawsuit they are paying for.

Then there was a motion picture hacking which wasn't shitty for anyone other than them, but hey, I got to see the Interview for free because of it.

More recently we have the waterproof thing with their phones - which is a problem occuring on the user end due to mistreatment. Despite that they've replaced all affected phones and have changed marketing, despite the fact that the phones are waterproof out of the box.

Do you even know what Sony did to other console makers before Xbox even came into market? Obviously not.  MS has bigger priorities than the console war and its a smaller part of their main business.  Neither of these companies are good and neither are evil, pros and cons to both.  But Sony is no underdog, MS is in the console market.  ~130millions PS2s sold, ~30million Xboxs sold