Playstation hits 80m+ monthly active users!

[KBG29]

potato_hamster said:

KBG29 said:
I guess if anything they have maintained. Hopefully they can grow the numbers, and increase the reach of their OS and Store Front.

A quick search shows Android at 2+ Billion, iOS at 1.3+ Billion, Windows 10 600+ Million, and Xbox One 59+ Million.

Sony is not a long ways ahead of XBO, but they have a long way to go to reaching mass market. Getting their OS and Store Front on their Phones and TVs would be a huge leap in the right direction. All Sony products should be running their OS, and the X,O, Square, Triangle, R1, R2, R3, L1, L2, L3 should be standard functions on all Sony devices. A standard language that allows anyone to pick up any Sony device and know exactly how to operate it.

They have a built a great foundation with PS4, now they just need to captialize on it. They have all the assets to see massive growth. They have just as much man power as Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Now they just need to utilize it correctly.

Explain to me how having a television running a bloated OS (for a TV) and employs a control scheme that makes absolutely no sense in any other setting other than a gaming one. All that would do is make their TVS even more expensive (since you know, it takes more power to run an OS as resource hungry as the PS4's OS), and much more confusing to users.

"I just wanted to skip the commercials in my DVR'd show, and instead of a skip button it wants me to press... R2? Where's R2? Why isn't there a skip button like there is on every other brand of TV?"

See the reason Apple gets away with pushing its own user interface and control scheme is because it's intuitive. It works in a way that makes sense. Want to delete a file? Drag it to the trash can. Simple.  Pressing "R2" to skip ahead in a TV show only makes sense when you're including DVD playback functionality in a PS2 that only ships with a Dual Shock 2 controller. It certainly doesn't make any sense at all in a smart TV.

Sony Bravia's run an even more bloated OS in Android, TV, and they are by the absolute worst TV expereince on the market. I have two Sony TV's with Android, and both of them run like absolute garbage, even the $10,000 XBR75Z9D. It is nothing but lag, app crashes, and the OS completely locking up on both devices. When it happened with my smaller TV, I actually took it back for an exchange, and the same thing happened wih the exchanged model. I thought when I bought the Z9D, it would be better, but it is still the same mess. 

As for the control scheme, it just comes down to a unified language across all devices. Sony already has Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow buttons on there controllers. It would make much more sense to just make those X,O, Triangle, and Square. They don't have to get rid of the > and >> buttons, they can make them >/R1 and >>/R2, to at least keep consistant design across their products.

As for price, it would add very little cost, and Sony could keep prices in place. Any loss of profit margin would be made up many times over with people using their OS and Store Front.