ok, go ahead and spill the beans...

Switching CEOs every 10 minutes isn't a good idea. Kaz hasn't even had anytime to shine yet. look how the whole concept of "ps3" changed when Kutaragi was removed:  gradual disappearance to no BC, 2 usb ports, change in marketing campaign, etc.

If they switch CEOs again this gen, ps3 may end up being unable to define by the end of its run

Kinda does sound like the N64s "Dream Team" of developers though.

@Steverhcp: By looking at your arguments and examples, are you trying to say, that Wii caters to a market that PS3 can't reach along with the core market, that is competetive? Nobody is denying that each wouldn't have a segment in the demographics that the other can't reach, but the majority of the market reached this gen have been the competetive one. And that's the thing people argue. The only reason it looks like they are in different markets, is because PS3 have taken a heavy beating from Wii in the core market.
If you think what Kaz is saying, is that they are running away from Wii (into a niche market), ie "Sony surrender", which puts the future of PS3 into a bad light.

This is an excellent post, and i must commend you for putting a lot of thought behind it.

One thing i must say though, is that a lot of people seem to be taking the "nitendo says they are not competing too" statement out of context, ninendo do not say that, what they say is " we are not competing with Microsoft or sony, but competing against the consumer disinterest to gaming", when you cut that statement in half like so many people do  you only see half of the bigger picture. To me what that statement meansis Nintendo see's Sony and Microsoft as irrelevent.

Throughout this Gen and a little before it  (when the  Wii system was announced) people have not been listening to Nintendo and have beeen taking taking only small parts of thier statements, and leaving out totally releve. What this does is take the what they say totally out of context and make it sound like something totally different. 

If Microsoft and Sony and the whole industry actually listened they would have known a storm was brewing a long time ago, and done something bout it. Obviousy this is all my opinion, just my 2 cent.

this guy changed the name of the theard just so he can piss off Sony haters, which isn't hard, just put the words ''PS3'' and ''win'' in the name of the theard and you got 50 sony haters and 170 replays

I think Microsoft knew what they were doing but they had little choice. The Xbox360 was clearly targeted as a low cost PC. They had their best chances in this environment and they had to counter Sonys PS-3, while they also had to be faster. The early release of the Xbox360 was very risky, but now they are in the right place. The console can be produced cheap enough to earn money and still be competitive. Furthermore the next Xbox can be designed based on the current version, they won't need any bigger modifications, insatead they can simply use Moores Law to be faster and cheap and be compatible to the current plattform. They will not be the winner of this generation but they will probably earn more money than they had to invest for the Xbox360 ahnd can start to think how they might react to the Wii 2.

Sony simply had the problem that Katuragi made the system too expensive "Eight is a beautiful number" as the reason for  a design change of the Cell from six to eight SPUs and then the disaster of the companion chip... I thiunk this was the time when Sony knew that they were in trouble. They demonstrated a nhearly perfect crisis management but the current financial crisis is pretty bad.

And before someone tries to describe my opinion as that of a Xbox360 fanboy: I own a PS-3 and no Xbox360.

I know he needs to stay in the "optimistic" zone, but d@mn, he sounds like a regular poster from any forum...

Avoiding any metrics of comercial success is only showing how bad the situation really is.

I wish they could spend more time on ps3 and just try to make great games for it instead of this.

I didn't bother to read the thread past the OP, I can probably predict what went on anyways.

That said, I really wish Kaz Hirai would have stepped down instead of Phil Harrison.

Sony gets a lot of negative press as a whole company because of a small minority of arrogant executives. I feel with Trenton and Harrison, both more realistic with their PR, that negative image would go away.
Oh well, not surprised by this. Not really affected, either.