Playstation hits 80m+ monthly active users!

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potato_hamster said:

KBG29 said:

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.

Source that PS4's OS is more bloated than Android TV? Interesting that they Switched to Android TV over their own OS they were running on TVs. It's probably because Android TV has far, far , far better app support,  and more advanced features and Sony can just take a cut of the sales through their devices instead of spending to support their own shit. So if anything, Sony is already heading in the opposite direction of what you want them to do. They're going further away from using their own OSs on devices that don't really need it and lowering the costs of making devices - not increasing them.

You do realize PS4's OS currently requires 3.5 GB of RAM alone, right? What are the odds your TV has 4 gigs of RAM available for the OS? Approximately none. Do you know why your TVs run their android OS  like garbage? Because smart TVs have the bare minimum processing power, and this Android OS probably requires more resources than their old TV OS did. Now you want to add to those requirements. What were you saying about the costs being minimum?

And again, why would they expect significant increases in revenue? The PS4 has what? A dozen apps made for it? Far less than the old Sony OS did, which again is minuscule compared to the android app store. They couldn't get devs to support their existing TV app store. They can't even get developers to support their PS4 OS. Why suddenly would these app makers suddenly support the PS4 OS better if it was running on TVs?


The Red/Blue/Green/Yellow buttons are Blu-ray standards, not Sony standards. Try again. Check out this Panasonic blu-ray remote if you don't believe me.

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1QH7sifxNTKJjy0Fjq6x6yVXaY.jpg?size=169281&height=1000&width=1000&hash=a235f8fda00ac66c4304e3f032dc8bf2

Adding PS controller buttons to other remotes is one of the dumbest, most ridiculous ideas you've had yet. Why does this keep getting wilder and wilder as time goes on despite Sony clearly going in another direction?

Just to complement KBG29 one of the reasons for the 3Gb of RAM on the OS is to have the share function that is constantly saving 15 min of video