What is Sony's biggest mistake this gen?

I think that Sony made a ton of mistakes this gen.

1. They priced the system way too high.

2. They failed to keep exclusives (by failing to sign contract agreements).

3. They didn't get make enough systems on launch day due to Blue Ray laser sortage.

4. They got way too cocky and thought that they could just sit back.

I think that if they had kept the exclusive games that were suppose to be exclusive everyone would have bought it even at $599 (remember the huge lines and fights on launch day to pay $599 for it?). I also think that if they had the millions of units they promised to have by the end of 2006, their base would be bigger and they would have sold way more games. If Sony fixed one of these problems than the others would be less of a problem. Remember when Assasins Creed was a PS3 exclusive? Sony thought they were #1 and that they could take their time. They turned the most hyped next gen console and turned it into.... Well something less. Sony WTF.

they've had a serious advertisement campaign fail, although I don't know why people let adds decide what they will buy.

losing exclusives and the ads kinda sucked

they should have the octopus add thing from the begining

and instead of going with the high and mighty beauty thing they should have stuck to what made them great

ie being in your face funny

I think everyone enjoyed watching crash bandicoot screaming through a megaphone at the nintendo office buildings

I think the only huge mistake they made was their investment of time and money into the creation and development of PSN Home.

Loosing too many exclusives and removing backwards compatability were the two big mistakes. I don't consider the price to be too high causing it to be a problem though because i'm sure if the console still had it's exclusives and it's backwards compatability people wouldn't mind the higher price.

There biggest mistake was having no good launch games. Resistance carrying a system? Not a good sign. They've started to turn it around though.

There biggest mistake was having no good launch games. Resistance carrying a system? Not a good sign. They've started to turn it around though.

guitarherofan77

The high price and taking out BC.

the price and loss of exclusives, the ps2 was known for great exclusive games

The high price

losing final fantasy exclusivity to macrosoft

In the start the price was way too high and they lost so many exclusives it uncountable...

Final Fantasy could have been the least that they kept.
Now they lost MGS too....

Its because MS spent so much time making a strategy and using their money made of other things to strengthin their gaming area...

Sony didnt do this, so they lost their exculsitivity

Oh yes, cannot forget losing Devil May Cry 4, Assassin's Creed, and Final Fantasy 13!

they've had a serious advertisement campaign fail, although I don't know why people let adds decide what they will buy.

Cody13_2012

Good marketing is very important and I feel it's their biggest mistake this gen. Sony needs to realise good advertisement attracts people to the product, it's just how it is and Sony really needs to market the console and games well as it's been proven on rival systems that marketing is great for the console and games.

there biggest mistake was playstation home..

The original price could have been cheaper, but it would have been a terrible business decision on their part. I believe they could have downgraded the software, reducing the cost but I admire them for sticking by the technology and continuing with it.

Poor marketing is really their biggest problem.

I'm sure if the games and the console itself was advertised better from the start there would have been a larger install base by now. People are fickle, and the majority will buy whatever they are influenced to.

In the UK for example, the PS3 was advertised quite heavily several months prior to it's release. The adverts were aimed towards adults and were usualy obscure, and most of them were so subtle that if you didn't watch till the end you would have no idea it was advertising a games console. These adverts stopped only a few months after the console was in stores, and I can't recall ever seing another PS3 ad on British television since then.

The same goes for a lot of games. I remember when game adverts would show it on a different console, but would still say it was also available on PS3. I don't see this much anymore in multi-plat game ad's.

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Price was too high, especially at launch. I've owned a PS1 and PS2, but when I saw that $600 price tag - on a video game console!?!? - I thought they must have gone insane. Their advertising campaign was pathetic, putrid, pitiful. And that's putting it nicely. If you want to sell an extremely high priced console, you damned well better tell people what they're getting for all that money. They failed epically.

PS4 should be adverised so bad that people will think there is no Xbox 720 or wtf Xbox 3 is gonna be called :D

Advertisments that show evrey little bit of the damn thing, not just some shots of the thing and a commentator saying stuff... And PS online should be advertised more. Way more

The PS3 should have picked up where the PS2 left off.. for the longest time Resistance was the only game holding it up.. I think they rushed it out, the PS2 was holding its own.. the release of the PS3 should have been another year or at least a half a year..

Although the PS3 launch was pretty lame, i would have to say that fails in comparision of the time, effort and resources put into home..

Also i don't mind the loss of some of all the exclusives, because new exclusives always arise.. but what bothers me is that multiplatform games aren't forced to run and look better than the competitor.. It seems like multiplat games get made on the XBOX and when that disk is full, the PS3 version is done.. just a made up example is;

say a game is made and on an hd disk 100% is taken up but on a blu ray disk only 70% is taken up.. then the game is released.. that just doesn't seem right.. 30% left but since the other disk is full so both versions are done.. Sony should say to them well this game better have no load times, no glitches/errors and runs perfectly smooth, if you aren't going to add anything else for the space you have left..

idk just my thoughts, that example is completely made up and the % is obviously wrong.. but a lot of multiplat games feel that way..

Actually, the problem isn't that they're losing exclusives... It's that they're not STEALING them. GO GET SPLINTER CELL CONVICTION, SONY GODDDAMMIT!!!!

I think they losed to many exclusives games. But, they will find a way to repare this, sooner or later.

its the price and the fact that the ps3 doesn't really have an identity. ps2 was pretty casual like the wii this gen with solid games sprinkled in. 360 is a shooter's console. Ps3?-no focus as of yet

No launch titles and a high price. Though, both of those are fine now.

They priced it way too high. I have no doubt that if the PS3 launched for the same price as the 360, it would be selling way better and the 360 would be in third place.

As much as I love my Bluray, this was the main factor for the price being so high at the begining. It was also one of the reasons the console had to be delayed (shortage of parts).Sony should have left it out and then launched earlier and cheaper.

Priced too high. Lower price means more people buying PS3's and that means developers have a better incentive to stay exclusive

Its no longer BC withe ps2 games.

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Zero old school classics on the ps store

Ps store is pretty weak