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Don't Count Sony Out Yet
Eurogamer is hosting a GamesIndustry.biz article, an editorial that wants readers to make sure not to write Sony off yet. From the article: "Even if Sony is failing to endear itself to the media, to analysts or to gamers at the moment, that's no reason for the reality of the next generation console battle to be ignored. Judging from reports in the past fortnight, it would be easy for an outside observer to assume that it's all over already; the media paints a picture of Microsoft being victorious before the first shot is even fired, with Sony's overloaded battlecruiser set to sink before it even leaves port."
I'll write them off anyway.
I have no interest in a $600 console and $70 games.
After the infamous ROOTKIT incident, I'm not interested in giving Sony a dime ever again.
Sony pulled the CLIE from the US market, despite the fact they where making a profit, just because they had no hope of dominating the PDA market in the US.
Sony Connect music store remains poorly implimented and under marketed.
Sony demostrated no loyality to it's Playstation 2 consumers resulting in a class action lawsuit.
Sony demostrated no loyality to being able to install a hard drive in future iterations of the Playstation 2. If a consumer's PS2 breaks down and they get the latest version of the PS2 then Final Fantasy XI unusable and ensuring that companies would not port other classically computer style games to the PS2.
Sony demostrated no loyality to it's audio CD consumers resulting in a class action lawsuit.
Current reviews of HD-DVD's than Blu-Ray disks indicate that HD-DVD is preferable.
There is currently more HD-DVD titles available than Blu-Ray.
Sony's first priority for the design of Blu-Ray seems to be the triple copy-protection instead of any consumer friendly priorities.
If you don't learn from history then you are doomed to suffer when Sony again pulls an anti-consumer move.
Nintendo and Microsoft seem more interested in this latest round of consoles of delivering features to the consumer than pulling a fast one over on them and then excusing themselves from responsiblity.