1. What will you do to make sure the ps3 keeps on going strong?
Dropping the price seems to be a popular answer and it is not a completely bad idea, I get why Sony is reluctant to do so, they have only just recently got the production costs of the PS3 down to a point where they can actually make money with each console sold, dropping the price again would likely cause them to take it at a loss again. Securing good 3rd party exclusives (and I mean true exclusives) would be a good place to start to keep the PS3 going strong, but as the head of the company I would be remiss to focus solely on the PS3, I would also work with developers to make more quality games for the PSP and PS2. (lets face it a lot of people still have PS2, not everyone can afford to upgrade to a current gen system, and making a PS2 game has to be cheaper than making a PS3 or 360 game)
2. How will you advertise ps3 products better than those before you?
At this point pretty much any advertising (on TV) would be better than current ads, 10 years ago I saw video game commercials frequently now aside from EA Sports games, and stuff like Halo, not so much. But my ads wouldn't be like the pathetic attempts at ads that Sony has had this gen, (Sony seriously needs to fire the people that come up with the PlayStation ads) the ads for the PS3 console would focus on all the things the PS3 has to offer, for game ads you have to show game play.
3. Which companies will you try to bring into sony to make ps3 exclusive games & which would you drop?
I would buy SquareEnix, while tempting to drop Activision for being cry babies, it would cause the PlayStation systems to lose too many good games, (all Marvel games, Call of Duty etc) Since they are an independent company now I would approach Bungie to make a PS3 exclusive.
4. What would be your #1 priority? Making money, pleasing the sony fanbase or leaving things as is?
I would try as best as possible to find a balance between making money and keeping the fanbase happy. The fans are the ones they got Sony where they are and they are the ones that will keep them from falling, but at the same time it is a business.
5. Would you be willing to collab with other companies such as Microsoft & Nintendo on new ideas?
I wouldn't be against it but not entirely sure how it would work (lets face it there will never be a collaboration between these companies)
6. What ideas would you push towards the completion on the next sony console?
The next system has to come out competitively priced, if it is still the most expensive by say $50 that would be ok since that isn't that much money, but the next PlayStation cannot come out with a $600 price tag.
Going into the next Gen I think all of the big 3 need to learn some lessons of what not to do:
Sony: Must be competitively priced, cannot be priced 200 or 300 more than the competition.
Microsoft: Needs to make a console that doesn't break down every 10 minutes, it needs to be built to last, choose a final design for the system and stick with it, don't keep making changes to it late in the process that cause massive hardware problems.
Nintendo: While there is nothing wrong with trying to get casual gamers to buy your products, you should not do it at the expense of you core fanbase, the casual gamers likely will get bored with the constant mini games and move on to something else altogether, for them it is likely just a fad, if you can turn them into true gamers, even better. Again, your core fanbase is what got you this far, and are the ones that will keep you from failing, there must be more games for the gamers. While there is nothing wrong with constant Mario, Metroid and Zelda games (they sell a lot) it would be a good idea to come up with some new IPs or even dust off your older franchises and update them (Punch-Out), also every game needs to have the option to not use motion control.
Log in to comment