COKTOE said:
- The Vita, both with the memory cards and the insane lack of marketing support from the get-go. It was a smooth transition to officially ceasing to support it with software a short time later. To say they gave up is something of a misnomer. The effort was never what it should have been to begin with.
- PS3 cost them. I had no problem with it personally, ( well, outside of the shaky first 18-24 months, when 3rd party titles often looked noticeably inferior to the 360 versions ). I loved what it offered, and never felt like I had been grifted as a customer. But in general, the price point was off-putting to many, and they were still selling it at a big loss.
-Not properly securing PSN, which lead to the well publicized shutdown in 2011. To my knowledge, nobody was actually personally affected as far as their losing money from their credit cards was concerned, but it was a blow to them in terms of PR. Although I tend to think the overall ramifications to Sony and the PS brand were negligible, it was a big, stupid, black eye.
Those are the most obvious greatest hits. So obvious they're scarcely worth mentioning among the VGC crowd. There are other things I haven't personally liked which don't necessarily qualify as mistakes that have impacted the company in a significant way. Just for example: The Vita memory card failure rate. Especially the 64gb model. It wasn't enough that they cost an unreasonable amount ( In Canada, a 64gb card was about $230 with tax.....HA!) , they had to be as unreliable as possible as well. Way to fuck over your loyal customers you jackasses.
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Vita cards had a high failure rate? I've had the same functioning 32gb since launch, and a 3-year-old 64gb. Never had an issue.
