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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."
I think it has been slashdotted?!
----- You know you have ego issues when you register a domain in your name.
...thanks in large part to the ./ affect!
here's what I got:
mossession::store failedDB function failed with error number 1062
Duplicate entry '1-' for key 2 SQL=INSERT INTO mos_session ( `session_id`,`time`,`username`,`gid`,`guest` ) VALUES ( '5a03d3215b93dec07298edf7b6444a78','1147722707','
MOD-UP.
i agree.
people said the same about the PS2...and we all know what happened there.
That's funny... I don't remember it that way. In fact I remember it being extremely late to market, in extreme short supply for almost two years... and despite the fact that the Dreamcast beat it to market by years and had competitive specs.. EVERYONE said they were waiting for a PS2 beacause *drumroll* "it plays DVDs" (rolls eyes). I don't remember anyone saying PS2 was doomed, what I remember was amazement that a system that was a year from release date was already beating the snot out of a what was probably the most revolutionary console ever created (to date).
In the end everyone got their PS2 and found that the DVD functionality didn't amount to much of anything. Most people rarely used it and they just used the PS2 for games. That one time marketing fiasco worked for Sony then, but now I think people are pretty much on to it. Now people are looking at the games and game functionality and really don't care about anything else. No one really cares about Blu-Ray.
More and more people are resenting forking out a boatload of money for more polygons. Parents are resenting their kids crying for a $500-$600+ gaming systems and being left with the choice of (A - spending a rediculous amount of money on a christmas present or B - have to deal with the kid's "crushed dreams" and explain that the neighbor's kid is just a spoiled brat). Especially when the kid really just wants to play the next Final Fantasy and could give a crap about polygons. Hell.. _I_ just want to play the next Final Fantasy and don't give a crap about polygons.