What's left for Sony?

I hate to say it, but both Sony & the PS3 are starting to look more & more like a pile of dog ****. Look at what's happened in it's now 25 month lifespan of the PS3.

A $600 price tag, Blu-Ray & Cell not doing crap for the games but only making it costly & more difficult for the developers to make their games for the platform, Exclusives constantly being ported over to 360, better looking multiplats on the 360, terrible online, HOME being incredibly lame, can't upscale games like the 360 can (only PS1 & PS2 games in the 20, 60, &the older 80 GB models), constantly dropping SKU's & prices, bringing out unnecessary SKU's & bundles just to get more people to buy the thing, Sony being forced to shut down plants, reduce spending, cut 16,000 people out of a job, terrible marketing, etc.

Am I missing anything here? Not to mention that they can't even afford to cut down the price of the system because that will bring them down into even more debt. What is going on? What is happening to this company? Sony used to be on top, & now, they're going under. What's left for them now?

I hate to say this; but I agree.

Resistance 2 and LBP also kind of flopped while games on 360 like GEARS 2 and FABLE II grabbed 1st place during debut and in november 360 version of CoD also good, 2nd place. Also, on GR, 360 has more A games AA games and AAA games than all other consoles. Reviweres show their opinions. I think 360 is win for Microsoft,

I hate to say it, but both Sony & the PS3 are starting to look more & more like a pile of dog ****. Look at what's happened in it's now 25 month lifespan of the PS3.

A $600 price tag, Blu-Ray & Cell not doing crap for the games but only making it costly & more difficult for the developers to make their games for the platform, Exclusives constantly being ported over to 360, better looking multiplats on the 360, terrible online, HOME being incredibly lame, can't upscale games like the 360 can (only PS1 & PS2 games in the 20, 60, &the older 80 GB models), constantly dropping SKU's & prices, bringing out unnecessary SKU's & bundles just to get more people to buy the thing, Sony being forced to shut down plants, reduce spending, cut 16,000 people out of a job, terrible marketing, etc.

Am I missing anything here? Not to mention that they can't even afford to cut down the price of the system because that will bring them down into even more debt. What is going on? What is happening to this company? Sony used to be on top, & now, they're going under. What's left for them now?

garland51

If you take a look at my sig, you can see the end result of a bad combo:

Blu-Ray is represented by the milk.

The Cell is represented by the Corn Flakes.

Homer Simpson is of course represented by SCE.

?...What year is it?

I already have a 60 GB PS3 model, but now, I'm already starting to think of buying myself a Pro 360 once I save myself some money. After that, the only thing that will get played on the PS3 would be PS1 & PS2 games, 1st & 2nd party PS3 games (including PSN games), Fighters (mainly because of the 360' horrible D-Pad that ruins it), & Blu-Ray movies. That's it. Plus I'm also considering buying Microsoft's next X-Box system next gen. If Sony can't get back in gear next gen, I'm going to say, "**** it," & will only stick with MS's next X-Box system.

I've never seen a system that's got so much bad reputation since the Sega Saturn, & it's ridiculous.

?...What year is it?

GeoffZak

I'm talking about what happened before, & what's still happening.

really cuz my ps3 works great, has a lot of games i enjoy, didn't cost me too much and has a lot of great games coming out in '09. we must be thinking of different systems.

exclusives "constantly" being ported? um, which one? oh thats right FF13.... what was the other one? oh wait.... there wasn't one. tekken and dmc were never exclusives. mine doesn't really need upscaling since most of the games are at least 720p.... so far, my online has worked pretty well so i don't see the issue there. it sounds like a bunch of fanboy hate propaganda from someone who probably hasn't even played a ps3. good job, you failed yourself.

as for their plants and employment, even with a massive success of ps3 dominating the world over, due to the RECESSION im sure they would still have had to let people go, go learn how the economy works. lastly, you do realize that the ps3 isn't the only thing sony does right? you do know they do home audio, video, camcorders and a pletheora of other endeavors, surely a bumpy start with the ps3 won't drive them out of business.

dang... two bad months on sales and its already 2006 all over again

Making fun of sony just got classy again i guess

This must be a thread from like Dec. 2006 :?Couth_

ok, let me own this thread on sales right quick:

In NA (the 360's homeland), it took the 360 a price cut and 2-2 1/2 months to catch the ps3 lead in NA

In Japan (the ps3 homeland) it took no price cut and the ps3 caught and surpassed the 360 lead in one week

I know that the ps3 may be in dire moments to you lems now, but make no mistake on the strides it had to take the 360 to fill the gap this year in total hardware sales in NA compared to the ps3's in japan

really cuz my ps3 works great, has a lot of games i enjoy, didn't cost me too much and has a lot of great games coming out in '09. we must be thinking of different systems.

exclusives "constantly" being ported? um, which one? oh thats right FF13.... what was the other one? oh wait.... there wasn't one. tekken and dmc were never exclusives. mine doesn't really need upscaling since most of the games are at least 720p.... so far, my online has worked pretty well so i don't see the issue there. it sounds like a bunch of fanboy hate propaganda from someone who probably hasn't even played a ps3. good job, you failed yourself.

as for their plants and employment, even with a massive success of ps3 dominating the world over, due to the RECESSION im sure they would still have had to let people go, go learn how the economy works. lastly, you do realize that the ps3 isn't the only thing sony does right? you do know they do home audio, video, camcorders and a pletheora of other endeavors, surely a bumpy start with the ps3 won't drive them out of business.

[QUOTE="z4twenny"]

really cuz my ps3 works great, has a lot of games i enjoy, didn't cost me too much and has a lot of great games coming out in '09. we must be thinking of different systems.

exclusives "constantly" being ported? um, which one? oh thats right FF13.... what was the other one? oh wait.... there wasn't one. tekken and dmc were never exclusives. mine doesn't really need upscaling since most of the games are at least 720p.... so far, my online has worked pretty well so i don't see the issue there. it sounds like a bunch of fanboy hate propaganda from someone who probably hasn't even played a ps3. good job, you failed yourself.

as for their plants and employment, even with a massive success of ps3 dominating the world over, due to the RECESSION im sure they would still have had to let people go, go learn how the economy works. lastly, you do realize that the ps3 isn't the only thing sony does right? you do know they do home audio, video, camcorders and a pletheora of other endeavors, surely a bumpy start with the ps3 won't drive them out of business.

Phazevariance

I'm happy in my investment

Anyway TC, either my time machine made of duct tape, cardboard, and a drawn on keypad is a huge success or you're stuck in 2006

[QUOTE="z4twenny"]

really cuz my ps3 works great, has a lot of games i enjoy, didn't cost me too much and has a lot of great games coming out in '09. we must be thinking of different systems.

exclusives "constantly" being ported? um, which one? oh thats right FF13.... what was the other one? oh wait.... there wasn't one. tekken and dmc were never exclusives. mine doesn't really need upscaling since most of the games are at least 720p.... so far, my online has worked pretty well so i don't see the issue there. it sounds like a bunch of fanboy hate propaganda from someone who probably hasn't even played a ps3. good job, you failed yourself.

as for their plants and employment, even with a massive success of ps3 dominating the world over, due to the RECESSION im sure they would still have had to let people go, go learn how the economy works. lastly, you do realize that the ps3 isn't the only thing sony does right? you do know they do home audio, video, camcorders and a pletheora of other endeavors, surely a bumpy start with the ps3 won't drive them out of business.

Phazevariance

Half the price for a crap 360. I bought the $199 360 and couldnt even play Gears on it because it needed the hard drive. So I ended up having to bring it back and get the $299 and wow for only a $100 more you can get a ps3.

the ps3's going to go into 09 with close to 20mil consoles sold in two years and suddenly people think that's bad