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"Sony is making the same mistakes that hobbled Microsoft and almost killed the Xbox"- BusinessInsider.com

the-a-baum · 2019-01-26 10:01:21

SourceSony is more arrogant than ever, similar to after PS2. It's a long article so I am including the main stuff. Feel free to read the original linked above. This should be fun discussion. Let's discuss.'With the PlayStation 2 in 2000, Sony dominated the video game market; Microsoft's original Xbox was barely a competitor. But with the PlayStation 3 in 2006, Sony lost its dominance in the video game market. Microsoft's Xbox 360 became the standard-bearer for video game consoles of its generation, and it remained that way until 2013 when Sony and Microsoft launched the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, respectively.With the PlayStation 4, Sony is back on top.Microsoft's Xbox One is doing fine, just like the PlayStation 3 did, but it's a distant second place to Sony's PS4. And now, the game of musical chairs has begun once again, with rumors swirling and even some outright official talk from both Sony and Microsoft about their next generation of game consoles.''With such a huge lead, it's Sony's game to lose — and there are some worrying signs that Sony's repeating the same mistakes Microsoft did when it introduced the Xbox One.'Regarding Cross Play: 'After months of back and forth, with Sony repeatedly offering bad excuses to fans for not allowing cross-play, the company finally relented in September 2018.More than just upsetting fans, Sony's refusal to allow cross-play sparked some major game publishers to speak out. Sony — a company that enjoyed years of good will with gamers following the launch of the PS4 — started looking like the arrogant one.It was reminiscent of Microsoft's messaging around the launch of the Xbox One, which often felt like Microsoft wasn't listening to its most loyal fans.''Microsoft introduced a video game console that wasn't focused on video games. The company demonstrated repeatedly that it wasn't listening to its most core consumers, and in doing so lost a lot of early momentum.'And now Sony is showing early signs of making those same mistakes.''In a New York Times interview ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in early January, Sony Corporation CEO Kenichiro Yoshida laid out his plans for integrating the enormously popular PlayStation Network — the digital backbone of the PlayStation consoles — with Sony's music and movie businesses.''While PlayStation Network could be expanded into an 'entertainment' service, it shouldn't be. Core gaming audiences have repeatedly demonstrated their lack of interest in gaming platforms being broadened.Look no further than Microsoft's announcement of the Xbox One — the focus on television, sports, and 'smart' functionality was a perfect trifecta of bad press for the console.'Some of that had to do with Microsoft's Xbox leadership at the time, which was going through a lot of changes. Sony is seemingly going through the same thing, with execs being swapped all over the place. Former PlayStation CEO Shawn Layden is no longer in charge of PlayStation — now it's John Kodera. The company's latest CEO, Kenichiro Yoshida, is the man quoted above speaking about PlayStation Network; he became CEO in April 2018, and he replaced former PlayStation leader-turned-CEO Kaz Hirai. Yoshida's background is in finance.'Sony is far from the position that Microsoft was in during that first year of the Xbox One's life, but recent signs point to exactly the type of shift we saw at Microsoft before the launch of the Xbox One.' I did not know a lot of that information and even though they are cocky as all hell I think they will be just fine next gen. If they dominate again remains to be seen.

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#51 IMAHAPYHIPPO

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@the-a-baum: I have no issue with console's broadening the capabilities of their devices, in regards to different kinds of media, but it can't come at the expense of its primary purpose, which is to play video games.

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#52 Edited By BenjaminBanklin

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@IMAHAPYHIPPO said:

@the-a-baum: I have no issue with console's broadening the capabilities of their devices, in regards to different kinds of media, but it can't come at the expense of its primary purpose, which is to play video games.

Correct. There's was a point in the PS3's life cycle where it was trying to sport features and media over games... those were the dark days. This is why this comes off as a red flag.

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