Comments on: Sony’s Poor Playstation 3 Sales and Marketing Isn’t Sabotage – It’s Just Sony http://www.breakitdownblog.com/sonys-poor-playstation-3-sales-and-marketing-isnt-sabotage-its-just-sony/ A technical, gaming and current-events news site Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:00:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: PednticCunt http://www.breakitdownblog.com/sonys-poor-playstation-3-sales-and-marketing-isnt-sabotage-its-just-sony/comment-page-1/#comment-13464 PednticCunt Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:26:34 +0000 http://www.breakitdownblog.com/?p=5267#comment-13464 its losing not loosing you tard. its losing not loosing you tard.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.breakitdownblog.com/sonys-poor-playstation-3-sales-and-marketing-isnt-sabotage-its-just-sony/comment-page-1/#comment-13083 Patrick Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:04:31 +0000 http://www.breakitdownblog.com/?p=5267#comment-13083 Sony's biggest problem across the board this generation is straight up hubris. When Microsoft launched first, Sony took the line that the next generation didn't start until they say it did. Clearly they were mistaken. It is a really sad state of affairs that a console who's whole launch day production line has a fatal error is still beating the crap out of the PS3. They seem to be suffering from the same sort of delusions that Microsoft had back when the original X-Box launched. Ed Fries would basically just go out and attack the Game Cube as being ridiculous because it had a handle and when anyone mentioned that the X-Box controller was like a loaf of bread with joysticks stuck in it, they would say 'well focus groups liked it.' So then they had to throw a bunch of money at a redesign because they made the thing too big for a whole race of people. Sony did the same thing. 'Rumble is last generation. Our motion technology is just as good as Nintendo.' I suppose that was true if you were talking about the motion detection in the nunchuck as opposed to the remote itself. And the bit about rumble not working with the motion sensor was an obvious lie since we have them now. They should have just paid Imersion for the rights to use the rumble like Microsoft did. For something that was last generation we sure did demand it and use it a lot. Sony has it in their head that they are the arbitors of what is cool in video games and they are really, really wrong. How they can still feel that way after all of the problems with the PS3, which I own and want to see succeed, is completely beyond me. You are dead on about how stubborn they are and I hope that eventually the financials shake them out of it. Sony’s biggest problem across the board this generation is straight up hubris. When Microsoft launched first, Sony took the line that the next generation didn’t start until they say it did. Clearly they were mistaken. It is a really sad state of affairs that a console who’s whole launch day production line has a fatal error is still beating the crap out of the PS3. They seem to be suffering from the same sort of delusions that Microsoft had back when the original X-Box launched. Ed Fries would basically just go out and attack the Game Cube as being ridiculous because it had a handle and when anyone mentioned that the X-Box controller was like a loaf of bread with joysticks stuck in it, they would say ‘well focus groups liked it.’ So then they had to throw a bunch of money at a redesign because they made the thing too big for a whole race of people.

Sony did the same thing. ‘Rumble is last generation. Our motion technology is just as good as Nintendo.’ I suppose that was true if you were talking about the motion detection in the nunchuck as opposed to the remote itself. And the bit about rumble not working with the motion sensor was an obvious lie since we have them now. They should have just paid Imersion for the rights to use the rumble like Microsoft did. For something that was last generation we sure did demand it and use it a lot.

Sony has it in their head that they are the arbitors of what is cool in video games and they are really, really wrong. How they can still feel that way after all of the problems with the PS3, which I own and want to see succeed, is completely beyond me. You are dead on about how stubborn they are and I hope that eventually the financials shake them out of it.

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