For anyone who's interested, here's a rebuttal.

http://playstationlifestyle.net/2009/07/14/sony-flame-baiting-is-so-2007/

Valid response to criticism or desperate fanboyism?

BTW, I'm just doing this to show I'm not all about PS3 doom and gloom.

With all due respect to those saying that a giant like Sony can't be bought out by Microsoft because they're too big or "they'll figure things out and bounce back", you've got your heads in the sand. Similar things were said of the Titanic. Sony has been slowly losing money and market share in all divisions. Their products are average at best and are easily outperformed by those of Samsung, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Apple, etc. Sony's lucky it's still in business, but their luck will only last so long.

[QUOTE="Grady420"][QUOTE="Trinners"]

No they didn't, they just didn't make as much money as they did. Do you not know the difference between making less money and losing money?

cainetao11

I'm not sure they can weather this storm. They're just not the juggernaut that they once were.

Plus, their profits didn't go down last year. They LOST money.

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[QUOTE="hyperboy152000"]

kind of like nintendo with the gamecube?

and the more competition the better and anyone who says X company needs to stop making consoles doesnt realize that actually helps all the other current consoles

Alpha-Male22

Say what you will, at least Nintendo made money on the GC. And I think that, as sad as it may be for a company like Sony to die like Sega, it would make way for true innovators like Apple to get into the game.

I'm not saying I wouldn't be sad if they left. I'm just saying that it looks like, due to their horrid PR and reputation, they're going to eventually be pushed out of the business. I'd be singing a different tune if they had actually tried to change, but it doesn't really seem like they have.

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Sony is a diverse company that produces high quality products buying them out would be a against microsoft's policies.

sleepingzzz

High quality products? They are getting beat in just about every field they are in. TVs are getting beat by Samsung. Gaming they are getting beat by Nin. I don't even see Sony Walkmans anymore after Apple came out with the Ipod. Dell and HP pretty much killed off Sony's Vaio PCs. Sony products use to be high quality at reasonably good prices. Now they are just over priced mediocre products living off the perception of what the brand name use to be.

This is exactly why I say Sony will have to leave the console business in a few years. Whether they get bought out or not I can't say, but the fact is that they're losing money from all their divisions, not just gaming. Eventually, in order to keep from going under (or at least postpone their inevitable bankruptcy), they'll have to discontinue the PlayStation.

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[QUOTE="HGAT"]

Sony aint going anywhere, look beyond fan biasm for just a second and look at market trends. Sony won the DVD format war with Blu Ray. Now what that then allows Sony to do is play a long game in the game market a very long game, zen master style of sitting their waiting and then striking next gen.

You see when Blu-Ray has become the primary format, for movies over the next few years and everyone is user friendly with it, what will the next gen have to use for the disks for their games??? they won't be able to use DVD anymore so oh look it's Mr 'Blu-Ray'.

Can you imagine the boardroomscenes in Nintendo and Microsoft where every game sale they make a percentage of said sale, goes to Sony because they're using Blu-Ray disks.

The only way they can combat this is online downloads via XBL and huge harddrives etc. etc..

Plus next time around the Blu-ray compenents in Sony's next console will be really cheap so they can spend less money,yet still make a great competitive console.

Sony have done enough to stay alive and set up a platform to launch into domination next gen. But i'm more interested in seeing what Nintendo and Microsoft do, If they manage to find a way around Blu-Ray it will be the business coup of the century.

In note to the dreamcast the one thing the sonyboys and ps3 have in common with the dreamcast is it thinks it's in it's own gen and sadly isn't and may well come number 1 eventually yes but it won't count in reality yet that won't stop the PS2 stats and support being thrown out to support PS3's number one status when Microsoft and Nintendo have already started the next gen again.

HuusAsking

Disc media is dead. Digital distribution is clearly the way of the future. Yet another reason Sony is Sega, Jr.

If he's got no internet, then I'd say he's got bigger issues than choosing between Blu Ray and streaming Netflix.

Sony aint going anywhere, look beyond fan biasm for just a second and look at market trends. Sony won the DVD format war with Blu Ray. Now what that then allows Sony to do is play a long game in the game market a very long game, zen master style of sitting their waiting and then striking next gen.

You see when Blu-Ray has become the primary format, for movies over the next few years and everyone is user friendly with it, what will the next gen have to use for the disks for their games??? they won't be able to use DVD anymore so oh look it's Mr 'Blu-Ray'.

Can you imagine the boardroomscenes in Nintendo and Microsoft where every game sale they make a percentage of said sale, goes to Sony because they're using Blu-Ray disks.

The only way they can combat this is online downloads via XBL and huge harddrives etc. etc..

Plus next time around the Blu-ray compenents in Sony's next console will be really cheap so they can spend less money,yet still make a great competitive console.

Sony have done enough to stay alive and set up a platform to launch into domination next gen. But i'm more interested in seeing what Nintendo and Microsoft do, If they manage to find a way around Blu-Ray it will be the business coup of the century.

In note to the dreamcast the one thing the sonyboys and ps3 have in common with the dreamcast is it thinks it's in it's own gen and sadly isn't and may well come number 1 eventually yes but it won't count in reality yet that won't stop the PS2 stats and support being thrown out to support PS3's number one status when Microsoft and Nintendo have already started the next gen again.

HGAT

Disc media is dead. Digital distribution is clearly the way of the future. Yet another reason Sony is Sega, Jr.

That's why I'm glad Sony ended up in the position it is now. In last place and losing money. Hopefully they'll learn their lesson and realize you don't have to bad mouth every system to get somewhere. They built their console thinking that their fanbase would buy a console regardless of the price just because it was of the PS brand. All the talk about "teh powa of teh cell" got them nowhere. Good riddance. Arrogance leads you nowhere and sometimes the price of that arrogance leads to a good thing. Ninty went through it, Sony's now going trough it and I hope MS goes through it to.

boredy-Mcbored

HAHAHAHAHA Sony learning a lesson.