Everything Sony Touches Turns To Mediocrity

Have you heard stories about Sony fanboys asking people to purchase Blu-Ray movies when the PS3 was released just to support Sony's HD format? How about dumping their working MP3, Walkman players every year with Sony's new line products and giving a midle finger to Apple's ipods/iPhones...ect. Or replace their working HDTVs with 3DTVs and trying to persuade other gamers in doing so just to support Sony. Those are just only a few samples of how far these"DIEHARD" Sony fans would willing to do in order just to support Sony.

TheXFiles88

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Mediocrity is one man's opinion. While do they commit some stupid moves. Their products are far from mediocrity my dear friend.

jimmypsn

Public perception and sony sales have to disagree with you.

oh jimmy, your a fun little guy arent ya? :P i do have to commend you for sticking with this topic as long as you have, most people who start these sorts of topics tend to abandon them after a few pages, but i shall say this, this is a single blog with a single opinion, some of its opinions do have facts behind them but it does not change the fact that the article by and large seemed to come off as saying "i dont like sony and heres why", i know that you shall bring up sales, but outside of america, the ps3 has been selling pretty darn well actually, and inside of america its solid what like 50-100k less than the 360 per month usually? thats still not that bad really, sony is still moving hundreds of thousands of consoles per month, and thats impressive, because you know what that shows? a demand for the ps3, something which a company who is selling something which is "mediocre" wouldnt have.

your move tc, your move :)

Sony remains the only major tech company that's not run by a tech executive. Instead the CEO is Howard Stringer, former head of CBS, a content guy.

jimmypsn

You have realised that Sony is also a large music and film producer right? It also works in finance (loan and insurance) and creates a lot of data storage disks.

Also Sony does have some synergy. They produce a lot of blu-ray disks, they build a lot of blu-ray players, they make the PS3 and they make a lot of films.

[QUOTE="TheXFiles88"]Have you heard stories about Sony fanboys asking people to purchase Blu-Ray movies when the PS3 was released just to support Sony's HD format? How about dumping their working MP3, Walkman players every year with Sony's new line products and giving a midle finger to Apple's ipods/iPhones...ect. Or replace their working HDTVs with 3DTVs and trying to persuade other gamers in doing so just to support Sony. Those are just only a few samples of how far these"DIEHARD" Sony fans would willing to do in order just to support Sony.

JohnF111

their warehouse turned into ashes (Not mediocrity) a few weeks ago in the U.K!

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[QUOTE="TheXFiles88"]Have you heard stories about Sony fanboys asking people to purchase Blu-Ray movies when the PS3 was released just to support Sony's HD format? How about dumping their working MP3, Walkman players every year with Sony's new line products and giving a midle finger to Apple's ipods/iPhones...ect. Or replace their working HDTVs with 3DTVs and trying to persuade other gamers in doing so just to support Sony. Those are just only a few samples of how far these"DIEHARD" Sony fans would willing to do in order just to support Sony.

TheXFiles88

CaseyWagner - "12. If you make an argument, it needs to be supported. Don't ask somebody who doubts the validity of your argument to "prove me wrong" or somebody who asks you where you got the data that supports your argument to "find it yourself." This is "debating 101"so please don't get yourself moderated for trolling over this."

There you go straight from a mod, so where are these little stories you speak of?

I dunno, my TV is pretty amazing.

I dunno, my TV is pretty amazing.

scoots9

Yes I like their TV's myself, but Sony's TV's are doing bad enough that they to have to merge with Toshiba and Hitachi just to try and compete Samsung and LG among others. Their electronics have been on a downward trend for years now, and their gaming division was recovering finally before the whole hacking thing, earthquake, and other disasters. This is not to say that the OP is true, but just that Sony is struggling as of late.

i stopped reading after he began praising the kinect

i stopped reading after he began praising the kinect

arbitor365

whats kinect? lol

I would argue their products are generally above average other than their HDTVs (I would argue those average at best).

Sony's problem is they are run by incompetent people. It doesn't seem to matter what division you look at (Sony pictures, electronics, video games division, SOE, etc.) the people at the top are consistently incompetent.

In the last five or six years Sony has lost money something like three of those years. It's crazy incompetence. I wouldn't recommend their stock to my worst enemy.

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I dunno, my TV is pretty amazing.

tempest91

Yes I like their TV's myself, but Sony's TV's are doing bad enough that they to have to merge with Toshiba and Hitachi just to try and compete Samsung and LG among others. Their electronics have been on a downward trend for years now, and their gaming division was recovering finally before the whole hacking thing, earthquake, and other disasters. This is not to say that the OP is true, but just that Sony is struggling as of late.

I don't know if Sony's been on a downward trend, so much as they just haven't had a hit product like they had with the original walkman and discman (and PS1/PS2 for that matter). I'm not so sure they were the "best" then either, it was more a matter of perception with consumers. Of course I had several Discman CD players that lasted for years and years so I was quite pleased with their quality (and I still have them as well). However for whatever reason, the walkman brand never worked out against Apple in the MP3 market. The actual hardware on some of their MP3 walkmans has actually been pretty nice, but they screwed up by having bundling them with terrible DRM and terrible software to go along with those players. Once IPOD and itunes took over, Sony was basically left to compete against Sandisk and Phillips for what was left of the market share. Quality wise their MP3 players are pretty solid right now IMO.

As far as TV's go, I don't know if they are the best, but I think people are severely underrating them. I'd take a Sony over a Samsung or an LG ANY day. Granted the fact they don't produce their own panels is a concern. The Sony TV I have now, is actually a Sharp panel. Not a bad thing because Sharp probably makes the BEST panels right now, but in the old days (i.e. CRT televisions) I doubt Sony would have been parterning like that, Sony from 10 years ago probably would have produced their own panels and let other manufactuers use their technology, not the other way around.