This is what Sony should do to get back into shape...

"The only hope for recovery that I can foresee is an adaptation of the original Xbox launch philosophy: launch the PlayStation 4 at a massive hardware loss, have at least 1 super popular game at or very near launch and market it to the moon on every content vertical around. It's a Hail Mary, but Sony is at 4th down and 25 yards at this point; they need to take a big risk to get back into the game."-HEADHUNTER

They should just keep making collections and HD versions of PS2 games, because cows seem to have no problem lapping up the same game over and over. Easy money.

i've fallen and i can't get up.

They don't have the money to do that. If we're going to use football analogies, Sony is at 4th and 25 without a QB.

They don't have the money to do that. If we're going to use football analogies, Sony is at 4th and 25 without a QB.

Phoenix534

Get to work Sony :P

[QUOTE="Phoenix534"]

They don't have the money to do that. If we're going to use football analogies, Sony is at 4th and 25 without a QB.

biggerdjam

Sony doesn't need to do anything other than release before or at the same time as Xbox and keep it priced within $100 of the next Xbox and make it a kick butt system. Sony's last mistakes were 1. Releasing it a year later 2. Pricing it too high and 3. Making so the Devs had to take too long to understand how to make multiplats the same quality.

"The only hope for recovery that I can foresee is an adaptation of the original Xbox launch philosophy: launch the PlayStation 4 at a massive hardware loss, have at least 1 super popular game at or very near launch and market it to the moon on every content vertical around. It's a Hail Mary, but Sony is at 4th down and 25 yards at this point; they need to take a big risk to get back into the game."-HEADHUNTER

biggerdjam

Sony doesn't need to do anything other than release before or at the same time as Xbox and keep it priced within $100 of the next Xbox and make it a kick butt system. Sony's last mistakes were 1. Releasing it a year later 2. Pricing it too high and 3. Making so the Devs had to take too long to understand how to make multiplats the same quality.

clr84651

They need psn. They need to start charging for this, and offer premiums. Sony could have their very own movie/tv streaming. Cease the deal with Netflix, and only have Sony Pictures on the Playstation. $19.99/month. Sony Music? That's on Playstation, too.Heirren

Why would I pay $20 a month and only be able to watch movies from Sony when I could pay Netflix $8 a month and watch movies from every studio including Sony?

[QUOTE="Heirren"]They need psn. They need to start charging for this, and offer premiums. Sony could have their very own movie/tv streaming. Cease the deal with Netflix, and only have Sony Pictures on the Playstation. $19.99/month. Sony Music? That's on Playstation, too.white_wolf922

Why would I pay $20 a month and only be able to watch movies from Sony when I could pay Netflix $8 a month and watch movies from every studio including Sony?

they should just fold their cards and call it a decade...it was a good run

RIP sony 1996-2012

Lol Internet experts.clyde46

Gears of War and Halo are really good games with really strong online multiplayers (which was like the biggest thing this gen) and that's why they became so popular. A series like Killzone no matter how much marketing is never going to become that huge because the games while good they simply aren't that great. The closest thing would be Uncharted but ND first needs to make a stronger multiplayer, be more original and stop copying Call of Duty so much.

The first time I played the multiplayer of Uncharted 2 I knew that ND created something special. This was the first time in my life I became obsessed with a shooter and most people on my friend list stopped playing COD and started playing more UC2 but then they had to ruin everything by trying to be COD with UC3. Now nobody plays UC3 multiplayer anymore and they all went back to COD again.

Another franchise with tons of potential is the GT series but PD doesn't care about making a game, they just care about making the cars look and feel realistic while Turn10 is taking advantage by making Forza feel less like a sim and more like a game while keeping the sim features like the real life tracks and cars but combining them them with stuff that people want. And what is that? What the Fast & the Furious movies popularized, theaerodynamic customizations, and the always popular online multiplayer.

If you only care about the racing itself then you buy GT but at the long run Forza will last you longer because of the features that makes it be more like a game and less like a sim.

Regardless of this the PS4 will be huge. Right now to me the PS3 is second to none and if they keep this strong support and continue it on the next console then they will have no rival.

So, some posters here really want Sony to just fold up and leave the game industry? I guess next you guys will want Nintendo out. Then all we would have is Microsoft and Apple, both Western-centric companies. Cut out all things Japanese in gaming huh? Gosh this forum is crawling with myopic xenophobes. :|

So, some posters here really want Sony to just fold up and leave the game industry? I guess next you guys will want Nintendo out. Then all we would have is Microsoft and Apple, both Western-centric companies. Cut out all things Japanese in gaming huh? Gosh this forum is crawling with myopic xenophobes. :|

Bigboi500

[QUOTE="Bigboi500"]

So, some posters here really want Sony to just fold up and leave the game industry? I guess next you guys will want Nintendo out. Then all we would have is Microsoft and Apple, both Western-centric companies. Cut out all things Japanese in gaming huh? Gosh this forum is crawling with myopic xenophobes. :|

navyguy21

[QUOTE="Bigboi500"]

So, some posters here really want Sony to just fold up and leave the game industry? I guess next you guys will want Nintendo out. Then all we would have is Microsoft and Apple, both Western-centric companies. Cut out all things Japanese in gaming huh? Gosh this forum is crawling with myopic xenophobes. :|

navyguy21

So, some posters here really want Sony to just fold up and leave the game industry? I guess next you guys will want Nintendo out. Then all we would have is Microsoft and Apple, both Western-centric companies. Cut out all things Japanese in gaming huh? Gosh this forum is crawling with myopic xenophobes. :|

Bigboi500

Japanese games are already found on other systems than just Playstation and Nintendo, and I'm pretty certain that if Sony and Nintendo were gone that Japanese devs would still be making games.

So, some posters here really want Sony to just fold up and leave the game industry? I guess next you guys will want Nintendo out. Then all we would have is Microsoft and Apple, both Western-centric companies. Cut out all things Japanese in gaming huh? Gosh this forum is crawling with myopic xenophobes. :|

Bigboi500

[QUOTE="navyguy21"][QUOTE="Bigboi500"]

So, some posters here really want Sony to just fold up and leave the game industry? I guess next you guys will want Nintendo out. Then all we would have is Microsoft and Apple, both Western-centric companies. Cut out all things Japanese in gaming huh? Gosh this forum is crawling with myopic xenophobes. :|

Bigboi500

My proposal.

[QUOTE="Bigboi500"]

So, some posters here really want Sony to just fold up and leave the game industry? I guess next you guys will want Nintendo out. Then all we would have is Microsoft and Apple, both Western-centric companies. Cut out all things Japanese in gaming huh? Gosh this forum is crawling with myopic xenophobes. :|

godzillavskong

My proposal.

Wiimotefan

So they need to release and faulty console that breaks all the time and charge for online? No thx I don't think the PS3 audience is as dumb as lemmings, certainly I hope they aren't. I won't personally buy a console in such a state.kuraimen

[QUOTE="kuraimen"]So they need to release and faulty console that breaks all the time and charge for online? No thx I don't think the PS3 audience is as dumb as lemmings, certainly I hope they aren't. I won't personally buy a console in such a state.EzcapeTheFate

[QUOTE="EzcapeTheFate"][QUOTE="kuraimen"]So they need to release and faulty console that breaks all the time and charge for online? No thx I don't think the PS3 audience is as dumb as lemmings, certainly I hope they aren't. I won't personally buy a console in such a state.kuraimen

[QUOTE="EzcapeTheFate"][QUOTE="kuraimen"]So they need to release and faulty console that breaks all the time and charge for online? No thx I don't think the PS3 audience is as dumb as lemmings, certainly I hope they aren't. I won't personally buy a console in such a state.kuraimen

[QUOTE="kuraimen"][QUOTE="EzcapeTheFate"] They will pay 600 bones for a console that has crap mutiplats with a horrible online service that goes down for days on end gives your credit card info and personal info away to who ever wants it. Ya, I would say cows are prettty stupid. :cool:EzcapeTheFate

there are some problems i see here with that philosophy

1 xbox was new at the time it had to risk ,

sony on the other hand has been here for 3 gens so far , they should have known not to release at 600 dollars a pop,

2 sony has alot of exclusives numbnuts the problem is they hardly sell even when marketed , ive seen alot of vita ads on my tv lately , and madden is not going to sell that and neither is uncharted or lbp2 ,

3 sony needs to get vita afloat before venturing back into a new console if they do not then vey well then see ya when theres no ps around

there are some problems i see here with that philosophy

1 xbox was new at the time it had to risk ,

sony on the other hand has been here for 3 gens so far , they should have known not to release at 600 dollars a pop,

2 sony has alot of exclusives numbnuts the problem is they hardly sell even when marketed , ive seen alot of vita ads on my tv lately , and madden is not going to sell that and neither is uncharted or lbp2 ,

3 sony needs to get vita afloat before venturing back into a new console if they do not then vey well then see ya when theres no ps around

mariokart64fan

[QUOTE="kuraimen"][QUOTE="EzcapeTheFate"] They will pay 600 bones for a console that has crap mutiplats with a horrible online service that goes down for days on end gives your credit card info and personal info away to who ever wants it. Ya, I would say cows are prettty stupid. :cool:EzcapeTheFate

Sony would have already outlined a plan to turn things around, they are already selling some of their unwanted stuff, and have acquired some things for the future such as Gaikai, EMI music label, joint development with Panasonic on OLED TVs and acquired Sony Ericsson.

You can't expect things to turn around over night, they can't just cancel every product on the market and replace it. The PS4 could be a huge success, no one really knows what they are planning on the gaming front.

So many experts here, that i'm amazed ! Don't worry all (sheeps/hermits, etc) Sony will be back next generation with a beast console and huge amaount of quality exclusives !

And to the person who said the Vita is not needed because of smarphones/iphone(:lol: ) check this out !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=BgMWVdpCdSc

[QUOTE="mariokart64fan"]

there are some problems i see here with that philosophy

1 xbox was new at the time it had to risk ,

sony on the other hand has been here for 3 gens so far , they should have known not to release at 600 dollars a pop,

2 sony has alot of exclusives numbnuts the problem is they hardly sell even when marketed , ive seen alot of vita ads on my tv lately , and madden is not going to sell that and neither is uncharted or lbp2 ,

3 sony needs to get vita afloat before venturing back into a new console if they do not then vey well then see ya when theres no ps around

shadiezz2012

"The only hope for recovery that I can foresee is an adaptation of the original Xbox launch philosophy: launch the PlayStation 4 at a massive hardware loss, have at least 1 super popular game at or very near launch and market it to the moon on every content vertical around. It's a Hail Mary, but Sony is at 4th down and 25 yards at this point; they need to take a big risk to get back into the game."-HEADHUNTER

biggerdjam

The company would die if they did that.

[QUOTE="shadiezz2012"][QUOTE="mariokart64fan"]

there are some problems i see here with that philosophy

1 xbox was new at the time it had to risk ,

sony on the other hand has been here for 3 gens so far , they should have known not to release at 600 dollars a pop,

2 sony has alot of exclusives numbnuts the problem is they hardly sell even when marketed , ive seen alot of vita ads on my tv lately , and madden is not going to sell that and neither is uncharted or lbp2 ,

3 sony needs to get vita afloat before venturing back into a new console if they do not then vey well then see ya when theres no ps around

APiranhaAteMyVa

[QUOTE="EzcapeTheFate"][QUOTE="kuraimen"] Most affordable Bluray player at the time + a video game console + a media hub. Pretty good price and we had Sony's reputation to assure us that a constant stream of quality games would come our way and turns out they lived up to it! No credit card info was ever badly used unlike M$ which had many users getting charged for things they didn't buy and not even a massive hacking was needed for that just script kiddie level stuff. On top of that you pay $60 a year to rent part of games you already paid for, get bombarded by advertisement on top of that and no deal even comes in comparison to PSN+ deals. Yeah cows are not the ones getting shafted here lem lol.kuraimen

We all know PS4 is a go, lock and loaded. Its going to be like dipping your feet in water and grabbing the back of your tv, feeling the gigawatt of Sony awesomeness through your veins. It will offer a barn bursting amount of world class, high scoring exclusives, just the PS3. Thank you Sony. Heil68

We all know PS4 is a go, lock and loaded. Its going to be like dipping your feet in water and grabbing the back of your tv, feeling the gigawatt of Sony awesomeness through your veins. It will offer a barn bursting amount of world class, high scoring exclusives, just the PS3. Thank you Sony. Heil68