Sony To Hype Another Failure?

"Wow! Sony is building hype again!!! According to Kotaku, Sony has an announcement for March 31st. Will this be something that will forever change the PS3, or will it just be another hyped failure?"

"We all know that Sony is known for showing off things like Home and Life with PlayStation, which have became nothing more tha services we might use every once and awhile..."

-TheGamerAccess.com

As you can see, this is not meant to say that the Sony has announced many failures, but there is a chance it could be. Nor is this saying that we, as gamers, do not hype stuff. Just please read the article.

[pwnsause]

that title felt like reading a HHG article.

[morganfell]

Considering it is places like Kotaku building the hype and not Sony then sites like thegameraccess should do a better job in their analysis.

Also it should occur to people that Kotaku is intentionally building the hype so when the announcement turns out to be something relatively minor then it is Sony that looks bad and takes the blame rather than Kotaku.

[Sarcasm]

Nah, a HHG article would have been

"Sony's announcement to sell PS3 designs to Microsoft?"

[SupaPlaya]

all over again.

Kotaku says there is major announcement, not Sony!

Off topic:
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Web article with flamebait title trying to get hits? I don't care if the content itself is well written, I refuse to give sites hits with title like this.

[InfectedDK]

Lol this is ridiculous!
Sony has said they have an announcement. That. is. it. . !
SO who is building the hype? Everyone else but them :)

[I_am_rushin]

I call this move by Sony viral advertising.

[Aclay]

Sony isn't hyping anything at all, the hype is coming from the numerous game websites that have posted on N4G and own their own websites, their own speculation about what the announcement will be... that's where the hype is coming from.

When it comes to hype regarding PS3 games or literally ANYTHING PS3 related, it's always Gaming Websites that start the hype, NOT Sony themselves.

It's not like Sony isn't teasing the announcment by saying " We've got some earth shattering news on Tuesday" or whatever, Sony has been silent about the annoucement.

[Insomnia_84]

1. Big announcement on Tuesday
2. FW Updates come on Tuesdays
3. Killzone 2 Patch on Tuesday
4. Sony: Will be good for the future of the PS3.

What could it be?

I'm guessing 2.70 will be out tomorrow.

[Mozilla89]

Cause I can't go to the source.

[dragunrising]

Seems to be quite a few goodies coming out.

[INehalemEXI]

Sony just builds hardware that does not fail, these days they hardly even market there sh!t. The hype always delivers though when they do hype at an E3, E3 of 2005 ring a bell?. ie Killzone 2. That was some seriously HQ product.

side note: I think its funny how many media think MS won the last E3. The biggest thing they did was say FF13 me too....

For the most part hype is driven by media that automaticly churn out something anti, then there are those other media that will make something sound mystical and over the top to generate hits.

[FrankDaTank]

Morganfell my friend, raise a beer with me and let me know when you have your own site so that I may bookmark it.

[lordgodalming]

@Supaplaya: beautifully put. Although I think you might be giving the author of this article too much credit in supposing it COULD be well written. Such hit whoring isn't worth my mouse click. Moving on.

[dude_uk]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

is all I have to say to this "article"

[RememberThe357]

It's all these other smaller sites that keep bringing it up and hyping it.

[eagle21]

some "journalist" writes against a simple announcement from the KING OF GAMES: SONY. :)

[Alcon]

"Wow! Sony is building hype again!!!"

Who is building hype??? Sony only said they had a 'big' announcement, and that's all. The hype is made by the media itself, and of course some fanboys.
10 to 1 the same sites building up 'the hype' (in a way just like kotaku), will be the first to say how dissapointed and how bad Sony is doing, if the announcement doens't live up to 'the hype' (wich they contributed for the most part).
Why make such a big deal out of it?? I don't expect anything great because I think that if Sony had some super beyond cool announcement, they would do that during E3, and not on a random day of the year. But if the announcement is great, then I'll be pleasantly surprised and happy.
Expect nothing great, and chances are greater you'll be pleasantly surprised. There is no point in making tons of rumors for nothing. People these days cannot stay still for a few days until an announcement is made, and feel the need to speculate, throw rumors, hype a rumor or their hypothesis. How stupid can you be? What do all these things bring in the end? Nothing!! We'll all have to wait untill the announcement to find out what it will be, and only then would it be ok to discuss the matter.

[TheDude2dot0]

Generally when someone says something is a big announcement, there will be hype surrounding said announcement.

[GVON]

I swear it was on the front page yesterday,now it's back.

[morganfell]

I know GVON, this was paced back on the front page for some reason. Not only that but look at the sheer volume of reports. Look at this:

http://www.n4g.com/NewsPend...

An anti-360 story and it only took a handful of reports to kill it.

[XxZxX]

it's ok morganfell, n4g need the 10 doom articles about XBOX 360 per week.

[morganfell]

???? The 360 article was smacked down quick. Why is this still here with the number of reports and the damn thing is a day old.

[XxZxX]

does it annoyed you? certainly not me. Let it be

[SasanovaS777]

another hyped failure? what other hyped failure was there? pretty sure everything sony released was quality. and if they said something big is coming, then its something we havent heard of yet and it isnt relatively small news...

[ToastyMcNibbles]

youre an idiot if you think sony hyped up all those you listed...we did...the fans hype up stuff...and how the hell is home xi a hyped failure when it hasnt even been fully revealed? i can somewhat agree with you on the home part...they talked a lot about features that are no where to be seen but come on dude...haze? that was free radical not sony

[Godmars290]

Where do you get off calling a cancer/genetic disease research project a failure? especially one that started on the PC that got outstripped by the PS3?

[cliffbo]

Toastman is spot on here. we are the hypers. stop blaming Sony for something they are not responsible for. we called KZ1 a HALO killer and Sony took the wrap. all Sony do is advertise what they offer and on nowhere near the same level as MS (who do hype)

[Nick212004]

Yes, you guys are correct that the gamers hype a lot of the content, but if Sony would not have shown hundreds of videos about Home and announced it early, fans would not have hyped it that much. To make a long statement short, Sony causes the gamers to hype.

[PirateThom]

Ever think maybe Sony announced it early because Kotaku had taken it upon themselves to reveal it before Sony could?

[SaiyanFury]

What hype is Sony giving? Saying they have an announcement coming? That doesn't sound like the second coming of Christ to me, just an announcement. Sony isn't building any hype, just websites like this trying to rouse everyone into excitement, and then lowering the boom once the 'hype' doesn't like up to scrutiny.

[ultimolu]

...Can someone show evidence of Sony hyping anything at all? Because I do recall teh interwebz blowing things out of proportion and when it doesn't work in their favor, they scream 'FAILUUUUUURZ'.

One example of that is KZ2. People hyped the sales to kingdom come and when it didn't sell five million in one day...'OH MA GODZ, FAILUUURZ'.

You can't be serious.

[Sarcasm]

I don't recall any hype for Life with Playstation. But that's just me.

[Snatcher]

Stupid you are. Are you saying that Lair and Haze is a failure, because of the metacritic score? Have you even played the games by yourself?

Lair has gorgeous model, landscape, explosion graphics, and realistic sound effects.

Lock-on arcade shooting is a lot of fun. The game is challenging and fun, simple as that. Not close to a failure. It sold pretty well also.

Haze is a good shooter. The controls are precise and responsive, it had great graphics, decent voice-acting and story, the multiplayer was good. Another game that I consider average to decent.

[Nick212004]

Yea your right. They did not spend a decent portion of their E3 Press Conference talking about it and explaining. Then they released a date which was pushed back almost two full months.

[Sharpshell]

do people bring up Haze and Lair time aft4r time when K2 and LBP and R2 and countless other games are far more relivant. ITs liek blaming MS for hyping Too Human when it was all DD

Lair is so fricken old... let it go guys (also I think its highyl underrated and didn't deserve the ratigns it got.. if it game out this year i beleive it would have scored better)

[SmokingMonkey]

Home is still in Beta.

[Anon1974]

Yeah, I'm stumped. Home is racking in money for them already in micro-transactions and it's still in it's beta. They've delivered on every one of their internally developed games that they were involved in hyping. Life with Playstation is brilliant. Browse news, cure disease. Can't go wrong there.
The PS3 is selling much faster than the 360 did, despite the price point, so it wouldn't be the PS3 itself. I just bought myself a second console today to use as a media player and the occasional networked game session.

Seriously, I've got nothing. What on earth are they referring to?

[Pennywise]

I was told by a mod one time: "If you think an article is lame, mark it as lame and move on."

How am I supposed to move on when the contributor PM's me basically insisting I remove my report. Then proceeds to tell me if I dont think Sony hasnt hyped failures in the past he doesnt know what to tell me.

Is this how we operate here? I thought the title was lame, so I marked it as lame.

Now Nick is here saying Sony hyped these "failures":

-Haze - FR HYPED THIS TURD
-Home - HOME IS TOO YOUNG TO BE CALLED A FAILURE
-Home XI - LOL. WHAT IS THIS?
-Lair - GAMERS HYPED THIS MORE THAN SONY
-Life with PlayStation - ????? READ THE NEWS, CURE CANCER WTF
-And MUCH MORE that are escaping my mind right now - I BET.

[iHEARTboobs]

"-Haze - FR HYPED THIS TURD
-Home - HOME IS TOO YOUNG TO BE CALLED A FAILURE
-Home XI - LOL. WHAT IS THIS?
-Lair - GAMERS HYPED THIS MORE THAN SONY
-Life with PlayStation - ????? READ THE NEWS, CURE CANCER WTF
-And MUCH MORE that are escaping my mind right now - I BET."

Hit the nail on the head.

[callahan09]

-Haze = Hyped by UbiSoft + Free Radical, and websites like IGN claiming it was awesome before they played the final build, then deciding it was terrible. For more, see my note about Lair below.

-Home = Some hype by Sony, lots of hype by fans and journalists, and something that always has been and always will be a WORK IN PROGRESS. Home is not something capable of being "complete." As such, they succeeded, because Home gets better all the time, with new features, new spaces, and things like XI (see below).

-Home XI = No hype whatsoever. None. Hype would imply that we were supposed to be excited for it in advance. Nobody ever heard of it until it was already upon us. And XI is a nice concept and the fact that Sony is thinking outside the box to make Home a worthwhile application is great. If it was hyped after release, it was discussion by those of us who took part in it, not Sony trying on their own to get the word out through whatever outlets they could. Sony made one announcement of XI on the PS Blog, and it was merely to say "Hey Home users, this is there now, go play!"

-Lair = Yeah, they advertised it and hyped it like any other game, to try to make a return on their investment. But you can't have all winners, now can you? Microsoft also hyped up Too Human. Nintendo also hyped up Wii Music. Neither lit up the sales charts or got many good reviews. Bringing up Lair is to ignore the reality that this stuff happens all the time, it's not just Sony and it's not just the videogame industry.

-Life with PlayStation = Not to my recollection: This application can't be classified as a failure first of all because it is a rousing success, helping the field of cancer research more than any other cloud computing network by miles. And second, because it wasn't hyped at all.

Please try harder next time, thank you.

[RememberThe357]

but it's fans are notoriously good at it.

[Uzesgelen_Goo]

Lair wasn't a failure it's sleepy title like what happened in Valkyria Chronicle. personally i like it Lair and it was knew and quite enjoyng.

[Sarcasm]

"They did not spend a decent portion of their E3 Press Conference talking about it and explaining. "

WOW THAT'S MASSIVE HYPE!

Seriously, do you read anything you post?

Hype to me is Gears of War 2, Killzone 2, Home, etc.

But Life With Playstation? It's an app to help cancer research. It's not like it hit 1,500,000 degrees on N4G.

[Aaron Greenterd]

At Microsoft, we fail without the hype.

A.I.G

[JD_Shadow]

HAHAHA!!

+ Bubbles for that. You just made my day.

BTW: Anyone else getting a 500 error when trying to go to the source?

EDIT: Anyone notice his initials?

A.I.G

Hmm...sounds like Aaron should know what he's talking about, right?

[ultimolu]

Lol.

[dude_uk]

A.I.G = Aaron Is Gay?

bubbles by the way =P

[MainstreamGamer]

You sir are a godsend to mainstream gamers like me who doesn't care about shoddy hardware and paying to play online. keep up the good work at Microsoft.

[rucky]

Sony's not hyping it you're hyping it

[ToastyMcNibbles]

thats exactly what i was thinking lol sony isnt hyping a thing...everyone is hyping it and getting there hopes up only to be disappointed if its not what they expected...then right after that they'll write up another "Sony Is Doomed" article and why is sony doomed you might ask? because they "hyped up the announcement"

[DelbertGrady]

I blame all of you for Sonys failures.

[ruibing]

Yeah, Sony just said they had something to announce, and everyone just started speculating. If its something big, these sites pat themselves on the back, else they blame Sony.

[Marceles]

lol rucky

[KingKionic]

no but if it isnt a price cut then perhaps its a new game.

[remanutd55]

wheres the official statement from sony that indeed something is coming out tomorrow???? can someone please point me to the official statement that indeed something big is coming out tomorrow, i'd greatly appreciate it

[TheHater]

you nailed it. I haven't seen Sony release an announcement about an announcement tomorrow. For all we know this could just be an early April fools joke by Kotaku.

[ultimolu]

It's an April fools joke.

[Fishy Fingers]

LOL... When in reality, Sony just sent out an announcement e-mail to a few sites didnt they?

Point your finger squarely at the internet.

[yoghurt]

Agreed, the internet (N4G particularly) see one snippet of announcement and then go nuts, creating speculation, getting all excited and then blame sony when its nothing major.

[killajd]

Then let urself decide if its correct or not!!! Hes not smashing anything he just stating facts which all of u want!!!

[redsquad]

If they want me to read their articles, they should choose far less contentious titles for them.

[Tykis]

....

[Rhezin]

is the site gameraccess.com

and the moron who submitted this article. -bubbles for you.

[Hydrolex]

umm when did the first fail happen that this is another one ?

If they mean the PS3 then LMAO Microsoft needs to close

[Bits-N-Kibbles]

Just let them announce the god damn thing and stop saying it is the cure to cancer!!!

Who ever is expecting something huge is in for a disappointment, save that stuff for E3.

[Sarcasm]

Maybe they found a cure for cancer? All those folding@home stuff must have done something.

:)

[Klipz-Wish]

I think its Syphon Filter for ps3(or at least i hope)

[Sarcasm]

It's not a game announcement.

It's a "Global" annoucement. They would announce a game at GDC or E3 instead.

[LukaX23]

They're not hyping it - the media is. Sony never said "BIG" announcement.

[GVON]

dont hate on Xi,it's amazing.

A game within a virtual world, on a consoles free application is crazy.In the future there's nothing stopping them putting out a 3rd person shooter in it.

[AJKanismajoris]

again more hating on sony, didn't see that coming i mean it's only been happening since the ps3 came out!

it's not the Company/Developer that creates the hype, it's the fans and people who make quick judgement calls about what a games gonna have in it or be able to do

[karan8624]

Halo 3 was a hyped failure. It was said to be groundbreaking, and it was Halo 1 with better graphics. Everything microsoft puts out has been a (VERY) hyped failure.

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

Did he say according to Kotaku?

Anyone else not bother reading the article after reading that one part?

[pippoppow]

So true, kotaku posts nonsense time after time. Anything even mentioning kotaku as a source is dismissed by me. Their heavily biased reporting will never be supported by myself and many others.

[NegativeCreep427]

Ahh Sh*t they better not be referring to Killzone 2.

In Kotaku's eyes how could Killzone 2 be enough of a success to not label it a flop? Oh I don't know. Maybe if Killzone 2 brought peace to the middle east, established wind and solar energy enterprises all around the world so oil companies cannot play hardball anymore with their ridiculous price-hike demands and therefore increasing the overall quality of life and decreasing the disparity between low-class and high-class society.

...oh and maybe if Killzone 2 made every single owner of the game a certified Pus*y magnet (or a sausage magnet, for all the lady gamers out there), then MAYBE Killzone 2 would be considered a success in the eyes of all these PS3 doom-and-gloomers like Kotaku.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Seriously Nick? Another question mark in the title?

This is exactly how Hiphopgamer started..now look at him..everyone hates him.

[Avenged Sevenfold]

Wow only flop I know of is LAIR. Other than that all of Sony's games are great.

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

^^

Haze wasn't that great.

I myself was extremely utterly disapointed by it, but that's because Free radical hyped it up too much.

[Avenged Sevenfold]

I said Sony games.

[Rainstorm81]

what about the crap fest that was : Too Human or Perfect Dark or did the Xboys forget about those crap games?? or maybe they are still mad the first uncharted is of better quality than Gears2

link
http://kineticninja.blogspo...

[Strife Lives]

would make me very very happy

[Covenant]

...this article.

[Salta_nelas]

It´s probably Kotaku's April Fools joke.

I wonder what are the other announced "hyped failures" though.

[rbanke]

Game hype system:

1. Company 'X' says something is going to be announced.
2. 'Game Journalist' (i use that term loosly) websites take it out of proportion/context to mean that something insanly important is going to happen.
3. Gamers read news, repost info on other sites with even more out of proportion/context changes, the gamer world goes crazing because this is obviously going to be the biggest thing ever announced in the history of gaming.
4. Company 'X' releases their news or announcment,etc. Announcement is a valid piece of information. Gamers/Gaming websites trash Company 'X' because the announcement/news is nowhere near as great as they wanted the announcemnt to be.
5. repeat in a day or so.

[Gue1]

This is just Kotaku spreading nonsense because I haven't seen a word from Sony about this matter...

[TheTruth89]

KillFlop2?

What a retarded jealous.

[Mc187]

of course your mediocre rts sold alot it's got halo written on the front of it.
You Microlsaves would buy a pair of herpatic panties if you thought master chief had worn them.

[Sir Ken_Kutaragi]

;)

[DeZimatoR]

And then its Sony's fault if said announcement doesn't live up to the hype other media outlets build up?

LOL

[Dawn_Of_Ashes]

lol kotaku... Who take those 360fanboy seriously. I remember when they put a news who was a hoax about a new model of 360. They really prove that they didnt have any credibility.

[zaldare]

The only failure is the expectations you've set for that announcement.

[MaximusPrime]

great! more anti-sony news means that PS3 has a bright future.

keep up a good job sony!

[redsquad]

*reads title, sighs deeply*

To paraphrase a great philosopher: "Cram it with walnuts, Gameraccess"

[bob saget remix]

That L4D noob is quite a tard. Well its just PP.

[xg-ei8ht]

Nick212004 - - WTF!!!

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!? You are going to tell me that Sony has not hyped any failures just this generation?! Where do I start?

-Haze
-Home
-Home XI
-Lair
-Life with PlayStation
-And MUCH MORE that are escaping my mind right now

You ought to be crazy if you think that the PS3 has not had any hyped failures. BTW, where are all these features and titles that Sony hyped before the console even hit store shelves? They are still working on them more than 3 years later!!!
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You get an F for fail!!! ding ding ding.

Haze, not hyped by sony.
Life with PlayStation - ? F@H. Awesome.
Lair - Twits that can't use sixaxis. Some things Lair did very well, others it didn't. For a first game, this game got slated because of the hype the media fueled.
Home - Works very well, for both chat and free games, and it's building all the time, hence why it says beta when u sign in, but hey you wouldn't know that.

If you don't like those games,freebies, don't use em.

As for SONY hyping the features, Well they look pretty good to me. I'm just streaming a HD film to my PS3.

SWEETNESS!!

[Figboy]

sorry!

[lowcarb]

Hype is exactly what the economy as well as Sony needs to keep this market alive. Why should we all just sit here bored to death with no news from MS when we deserve more as customers. E3 is going to be great, but I commend Sony and there gang of faithfuls for at least keeping this gen interesting. Without them N4G would be a fraking ghost town. Also the whole Sony won't deliver mentality is stupid and needs to stops. I hope all 3 consoles providers the best and simply love hype as long as it's not trash talk.

[Kyur4ThePain]

The only people falling for this crappy "hype" articles are from the 360 camp.
It's funny how often they are the ones to build the hype only to trumpet the "failure" shortly after.

Do they actually think people can't see through this?

[c64days]

When i see this kind of titile, i just run away...

[SRuN4]

How is Sony building hype when only Kotaku reported on this announcment? Sounds more like Kotaku fishing for hits than it does Sony building hype.

[interrergator]

plz somthing big ha

[Ryuk]

Sony better make it free....cuz ps3 fans have a track record of not buying things LMAO!!

[Etseix]

microsoft should quit the guarantee of the xbox .... cuz xbox fans have a track record of buying the same console 1/2/3/4/5 times every time it gets RRoD-ed!! LMAO!!

bad jokes comes on two isnt Ryuk? ;D

[be_wrong]

hype failure? hahaha lol :P yeah right

[Arsenal4Ever]

i dont think sony announced anything, it's just Kotaku thats messing around.

[Figboy]

A.P.R.I.L. F.O.O.L.S.

as if kotaku wasn't lame enough, they have to pull an incredibly lame April Fool's joke.

the fact that the Playstation blog hasn't mentioned anything about an announcement (and they tend to give updates on that sort of thing on the blog), and only kotaku PERSONALLY spoke with Sony about this announcement just reeks of BS.

kotaku has a history of sh*tting on everything Sony, so this wouldn't surprise me as another of their attempts to trash them and fans of the Playstation brand.

considering that, lately, the Playstation 3 has been the only console out there garnering news about games these days, i'm detecting a bit of sour grapes from the folks over at kotaku.

[aaron5829]

Not reading it.

[xlr]

it is true sony failed
it failed to impress 360 fanboys.

but it doesnot mean sony failed to impress true gamer.

i love sony, coz i am a gamer ; not a fanboy.

[Rmagnus]

what hype?

[Naar]

:)

[cpt_kaos]

6.2

Well an Aprils fool joke would be Microsoft announcing the RROD is fixed. ;)

As for Sony I love to have B/C but still got ole faithfull ps2 in standby mode when the urge hits.

[yz250]

what! where have i been! they announced ps4 already!

[DJ]

Big announcement does NOT equal "Everything you desire shall be granted."

Sony didn't hype it; the internet did.

[AriesFury]

didn't Sony say that they were going to stop making PS2s so people would start buying the PS3s? So now you can buy 4 PS2s for the price of one PS3s.

[Max Power]

please

[Dom6390]

wasn't it that the PS2 is now available for $99 ??? I thought that was the announcement

[devilhunterx]

Kotaku has failed again

[poindat]

Hasn't this already been on the front page? What's going on here?

[Dawn_Of_Ashes]

it was more the internet who build the hype around this news, not sony.

[Bathyj]

"Just please read the article."

Er, no. How about please lead with a non flamebait title and I'll think about giving your site a hit.

[jay2]

Sadly they did.

[Blink_44]

Oh my god i hate N4g.

[solidsnakus]

isnt it pointless?? anyone waiting for that price drop to pick one up is only going to pirate the games anyways.

[PSGamingInc]

You can get a good idea of why I was so embarrassed to be part of this embarrassing group of people. Look at how far they will go to defend their beloved Sony. Now, it is becoming clear just why Sony has failed in nearly every way this generation. Their fanboys will happily lap up any and everything Sony craps out. Home**COUGH**Home

But seriously blaming gaming websistes for making this up as a big annoucement when it clearly was Sony hyping it form the begginning. You are telling me that while GDC is going on these people have nothing better to do than get together and try and sabotage Sony by saying they have a big annoucment knowing full well it is only a crappy annoucement. lol? You poor, poor people have nothing better to do.

You would have had a better chance of spinning this into a

"SONY BRINGS BACK BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY WITH NEW $99 PS3 PERIPHERAL XBOX 360 IS TEH DOOMED"

[Toenado]

articles like this only add fuel to flame war.

[PSGamingInc]

In Failure is what fuels the flames, and the idiots blaming it on any and everybody EXCEPT Sony is what fuels the need for short busses and the Special Olympics.

[WhittO]

Omg, im so sick of these "PS3 fails, SONY Fails". Will people leave it along, its not failing and its not going to.

Where are the "MS is failing" articles ?!?! The console had HUGE failure rates and is selling cheaper than any other next-gen console on the market, yet still selling ALOT less than the Wii and about the same as the PS3 worldwide, which, since the PS3 is also ALOT more expensive, wouldnt people count that as "failing" ?!

O well, im not going to get into this, people are just trying to create trouble with these awful pointless articles about their biased opinion.

Bring on the HUGE list of exclusives for 09!

[yojoe26]

What was Sony's other failure(s)? I honestly don't know. They have released an amazing console with an amazing library of growing exclusives, excellent online features, and continue to improve. They completely owned two generations before the PS3 and I honestly believe they will end up owning this generation of consoles. How did they fail again?