And still quantifies as risk regardless.

I think I see a copy of Heavy Rain somewhere in there......

Sigh. I'll ignore the fact that you'll ignore the substance of my piece. (see what I did there? :-p)

Sales are relative. Sony's games do sell! They've sold millions of copies of a variety of games. They just haven't sold as many games as the other consoles.

If you don't want to have a substanstive discussion with any facts (re: not opinions) to back your views up, that's fine. That's what the internet is, a place for people to say what they want to say. If you want to ignore the important parts of my posts, that's your perogative.

Back on topic, Sony has taken risks. Everyone has. Throwing your hat in the ring in general is considered a risk. But to say Sony is the only company that has, or has taken the most is almost indefensible.

Seriously, I knew that Sony would become arrogant sooner or later, but I didn't think it was THAT soon.

What is wrong with them? Why do they consistently make weird statements and what are the circumstances? Do they just go out and talk to the media or do they have weekly interviews to make these statements? I don't understand lol

I wonder if the comment was made for Japanese stock market investors.
I can think of no other reason to make those comments.

After all, while there might have been research and forethought that went into the DS and the Wii, almost every analyst thought the PSP and PS3 would blow those consoles away.

So for Nintendo to outsell Sony's hardware -- and sell at a profit (no financial risk) -- knocking Nintendo just sounds like sour grapes.

Mike from Morgantown

PS -- It is not good for the world for Sony Playstation to win. I would prefer Mattel Intellivision.

Slow down for a second there, you're confusing risk with innovation (yes, innovation has risk associated with it, but that's not what they mean)

One great example of Nintendo being a risk adverse company and Sony being a risk loving company is with the predictions of how many consoles the company will sell, Nintendo always predicts low then raises, Sony always predicts high then lowers

i can't believe how people take the ps3 as a fail in the gaming industry... selling faster than ps1 and 360.
i can't believe how people thinks that the ps3 didn't take any risk... Blu-ray, $600 price point, $800 the hardware ensamble.
i can't believe how people say that the ps3 games don't sell well when we're seeing the ps3 sales right now and before this time competing with the 360 sales with a much lower install base.
i can't believe how people thinks that sony DOESN'T know what they're doing... YOU, student/worker/kid, YOU KNOW MORE THAN THE PEOPLE WORKING IN ONE OF THE BEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD? THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE, DEVELOP and SOLD ONE OF THE BEST CONSOLES IN THE GAMING HISTORY, IF NOT THE BEST?

if your answer is yes.

Here's what really happened between Sony and Nintendo.

The first conceptions of the PlayStation date back to 1986. Nintendo had been attempting to work with disc technology since the Famicom, but the medium had problems. Its rewritable magnetic nature could be easily erased (thus leading to a lack of durability), and the discs were a copyright infringement danger. Consequently, when details of CDROM/XA (an extension of the CD-ROM format that combines compressed audio, visual and computer data, allowing all to be accessed simultaneously) came out, Nintendo was interested. CD-ROM/XA was being simultaneously developed by Sony and Philips. Nintendo approached Sony to develop a CD-ROM add-on, tentatively titled the "SNES-CD". A contract was signed, and work began. Nintendo's choice of Sony was due to a prior dealing: Ken Kutaragi, the person who would later be dubbed "The Father of PlayStation", was the individual who had sold Nintendo on using the Sony SPC-700 processor for use as the eight-channel ADPCM sound synthesis set in the Super Famicom/SNES console through an impressive demonstration of the processor's capabilities.

Sony also planned to develop another, Nintendo compatible, Sony-branded console, but one which would be more of a home entertainment system playing both Super Nintendo cartridges and a new CD format which Sony would design. This was also to be the format used in SNES-CD discs, giving a large degree of control to Sony despite Nintendo's leading position in the video gaming market.

The SNES-CD was to be announced at the June 1991 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). However, when Hiroshi Yamauchi read the original 1988 contract between Sony and Nintendo, he realized that the earlier agreement essentially handed Sony complete control over any and all titles written on the SNES CD-ROM format. Yamauchi decided that the contract was totally unacceptable and he secretly canceled all plans for the joint Nintendo-Sony SNES CD attachment. Instead of announcing a partnership between Sony and Nintendo, at 9 a.m. the day of the CES, Nintendo chairman Howard Lincoln stepped onto the stage and revealed that Nintendo was now allied with Philips, and Nintendo was planning on abandoning all the previous work Nintendo and Sony had accomplished. Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa had, unbeknown to Sony, flown to Philips headquarters in Europe and formed an alliance of a decidedly different nature—one that would give Nintendo total control over its licenses on Philips machines.

After the collapse of the joint project, Sony considered halting their research, but ultimately the company decided to use what they had developed so far and make it into a complete, stand alone console. As a result, Nintendo filed a lawsuit claiming breach of contract and attempted, in U.S. federal court, to obtain an injunction against the release of the PlayStation, on the grounds that Nintendo owned the name. The federal judge presiding over the case denied the injunction and, in October 1991, the first incarnation of the new Sony PlayStation was revealed. However, it is theorized that only 200 or so of these machines were ever produced.

By the end of 1992, Sony and Nintendo reached a deal whereby the "Sony Play Station" would still have a port for SNES games, but Nintendo would own the rights and receive the bulk of the profits from the games, and the SNES would continue to use the Sony-designed audio chip. However, Sony decided in early 1993 to begin reworking the "Play Station" concept to target a new generation of hardware and software. As part of this process the SNES cartridge port was dropped and the space between the names was removed.

So Ken "Theif" Kutaragi sold Nintendo the Sony SPC-700 processor then went on to work for Sony.

If theres one "Corporation" who DOES NOT DESERVE to be in this buiseness............ it's Sony.

The sad thing is that sony fans are mostly not even aware that sony looked down upon their favourite hobby prior to Ken Kutaragi approaching them with the Hardware and Software ideas that he stole from Nintendo.

Read between the lines Sony fans....................... "This was also to be the format used in SNES-CD discs, giving a large degree of control to Sony despite Nintendo's leading position in the video gaming market"

Your fave brand is a PHONY........... Bottom line________________________

I know! It is so funny to go back and read articles amd posts from years ago before the Wii came out about how much it would fail.

Anyways I like Sony and all but I have no idea what is on their minds.