Ken Kuratagi has nothing to do with the business end of Sony or the Playstation. He built all the hardware and whatnot, but as far as products marketed or the products on the PS3, he has nothing to do with it. Even if they did fire Kaz, that isn't going to solve any problem, but only make it worse. Kaz Harai isn't the one who made any of the decisions about the PS3 early on. Sony screwed up by not looking at the market and applied the same strategy as they did with the PS2 with adding in a different format like Blu Ray just as they did with DVD previously. True they should have not gone so high tech because the reason they got a lot of support was because they always had cheaper hardware. That is the reason they became a household name in the first place was because Nintendo went with cartridge.
If you ask me, I think it is more of 3rd parties crap. They say that games are going on X system and then they decide to multiplat. I bet even if the PS3 was on equal footing with the 360 the games would still be multiplat anyway. They would just say instead of selling 5 million on 360 and 2 million on PS3 it would have sold 5 million on each platform.
Most of Sony's first party games are great and there are enough games for everyone. Nobi Nobi Boy, the Punisher shooter game, Heavy Rain, White Knight Chronicles, Twisted Metal, Wardevil Enigma are all 3rd party titles. What is with the whole the PS3 is going to end up like Dreamcast when it isn't. Let me explain the difference between why the DC failed and the PS3 will succeed.
The DC failed for a number of reasons. When it first came out there were hardware issues and Sega accidently sent Japanese versions of games to other parts of the world. The games that did come out while cool were glitchy. Sega has always been known to push hardware out the door in an unpolished state. They failed quite a bit in the past with Sega CD, 32X, Saturn. Game Gear did ok for awhile but soon went down after about 4 or so years. The Master system failed from a worldwide perspective. When 5 out of 6 systems don't do well, then you have a problem. The Dreamcast had games that were already on the other systems with little enhancements as well. A lot of people were waiting for the other systems to come out, so they held off on buying a set. Sega's online library was crap and didn't last long. With the PS2 not too far away and boasted DVD functionality and backward compatability. Sega couldn't afford to drop the price of the dreamcast and suffered, not to mention the whatever million dollar lawsuit they lost against wal mart or something like that.
The PS3 will succeed because it has already has quite few games that have sold millions of copies like Resistance 1 and 2, Call of Duty 4, Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted, Motorstorm 1, Little Big Planet, Metal Gear Solid 4, Heavenly Sword. There have been other games as well that have sold pretty high like Devil May Cry 4, Soul Calibur 4. The whole timed exclusive thing is basically gone. Bioshock 2 is coming to PS3 and 360 at the same time.
I would say Sony isn't doing half bad of job, they went from having people abandoning the system to almost everyone having some game on it. Yes they could use more and better advertising plus a cheaper price just for the heck of it. They have probably the best lineup of 09 so far as of right now. The only games that the 360 has is Star Ocean and Alan Wake pretty much.
The Dreamcast was a last ditch effort to stay competitive and went diwb after the first holiday season. Sega ran out of money and the people's trust went elsewhere. In the end Sony will succeed just not as well as in previous generations. They also have the PSP which does ok in most territories. No one should be fired.
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