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Why Sony is Ready to Self Destruct
jammmma writes "Before even launching the PS3, Sony is ready to self destruct." From the article: "PS3 is doomed, thanks to Sony's ignorant attitude. None of us had the chance to seriously evaluate PS3 and the experience it has to offer. It's impossible without a series of titles and an official product at hand, but from where we stand, Sony's damaging attitude is all it takes to diminish the value of PS3. Kutaragi may be right in defending PS3; after all, he can't criticize his own product, but instead of exciting users with valuable features and winning them over so they can start saving, Kutaragi makes bearish statements in response to Nintendo's announcement and Microsoft's take on Sony. Last I heard companies were at E3 to impress media personnel, which yielded positive publicity, not make childish remarks when chances were against them."
Sure Sony is run by a bunch of jackasses. Sure their PS3 product doesn't seem to match up to the current competition. Sure they're schizoid with regards to their music distribution, etc.
But they are not today, nor in the next 10 years, at all likely to "Self-destruct". This is a corporation, not a political party. They're not losing money at present, and if they pull off the PS3 thing well enough to set blu-ray as the new hd standard (who cares about the games?), their entire board of directors is going to spend the next decade snorting coke and gold dust off the asses of high priced prostitutes.
They're taking the long view in this situation, and I'll be surprised if we'll know how it worked out for a decade or more. The value of owning the dominant video standard cannot be overestimated.
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The problem with Sony is That the media division control the development division!
They can do thing that can eventualy and may be remove some little part of the profit of the media division !
So Sony will be in 5 (or lest) year a Media company only !(...)
Well if they don't change !
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
Sony's philosophy of overpricing takes a toll with other items as well. For example, I find their computers vastly overpriced, thanks to their short lifespan. Unless you are producing a truly superior product, you shouldn't charge premium prices.
On the other hand, I'd like to mention one Sony product I fell in love with. A long time ago, I got one of their early Sony Clie PDAs. This was at a time before Sony realized they had a gem on their hands. The retail price of the Clie was $99; I guess they were selling it only as a platform for their memory sticks. I'm still using it on a daily basis, and I got a replacement unit, just in case.
The low end PS3 (with no HDMI) may not display all blu-ray DVDs in HD. Once movie studios enable copy control on blu-ray discs, they will only display in HD from an HDMI port.
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Sony have stated that they won't enable it because obviously they want the format to take off and for everyone to enjoy the full HD quality of blu-ray discs. It's also debatable who exactly is going to pirate films like resident evil if they haven't already done so. Sony Pictures blu-ray DVDs will play in HD but no other studio has commented on this yet:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/11/technology/e3_kaz
If you buy a PS3 at $499, then you get games and sony blu-ray DVDs in HD, but not necessarily other movie studio DVDs.
Considering that the MPAA and most studios take such a hard stance against piracy, I reckon they might just enable the copy control on their DVDs. Who exactly wants to buy a blu-ray player that'll only play Sony Pictures DVDs in HD?
"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane." - H.P. Lovecraft
I think a reorganization of the company is at hand with spin offs of non-profitables inevitable. For one thing, every division of Sony is clearly at odds with every other division. Numerous examples have already been stated above.
I would not be surprised to see a Re-Org happen as soon as July, but probably no later than December. If Sony is smart, they'll spin off their record company and get back to doing what they do best.
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I can attest to that. I went on Friday. PS3 was plenty playable, it's just that no one really wanted to. There was no wait to get your hands on any of the PS3 demos. Meanwhile, as you mentioned, the line for the Wii wrapped around the entire west hall.
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all the way back to Beta days. When it finally conceded defeat and released VHS decks
Conceded defeat? they never did that. Sony simply took the BetaMax and refined it to BetaCam and BetaCAM SP and owned the professional video market ever cince. Only now is sony losing it's fooding in the pro video market with the digital standard set up by JVC called MiniDV and DVCAM. Which is robust enough to handle the HD signals on the new HD camera systems.
Sony even tried to wedge in there with their own tiny digital camcorder tape. It died a horrible death just like SACD did.
In pro video Sony is still the defacto standard. Live events still use a DME9000 editing suite made by sony, most remote live semi-trailer studios are mostly sony gear as well still to this day.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Thats a fantastic summation of the events which lead to SWG's death. I quit SWG around the time that they discovered the secret to becoming a Jedi and im realy sad to see that its continue to fall into its proverbal void.
Realy makes you wonder what pond MMOG developers creep out of these days, and why on earth someone dosent give me there job =)
Another good piece of Sony engineering that evaded a death by hands of Sony's marketing is Trinitron CRTs. This was (and still is) the choice of DTP / photo-editing pros.
BTW, I feel really sorry for Sony's engineers: they often develop brilliant things that die undeservingly because of inadequate marketing, licensing, etc.
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