Sony has unknowingly created a multi-tiered market for themselves

eagle21 - 538 days 5 hours ago

I like the end of the article:

"Isn’t it funny that only now do we understand why Phil Harrison keeps on saying, “The PlayStation Family” is doing well? He really was referring to this multi-tier gaming business, and it was sad that amidst the fanboyism of yesteryear; none of us really saw what he was referring to. Everybody’s head was too far up next-gen gaming’s ass to see anything outside of the box."

So true! :)

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DrWan - 538 days 4 hours ago

please approve so others can see it, i just notice submitters cannot approve the same one haha. i never knew.

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aiphanes - 538 days 3 hours ago

Now we know why the Playstation name is so dominating in the world.

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season007 - 538 days 2 hours ago

the PSP and PS2 are the older BIG brother lol..not younger in any sense

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ExAtari - 538 days 2 hours ago

Can't wait for future articles from this genius:

"Sony's brilliant foresight in using electricity to power the PS3"

"Who would have known Sony's combination of games and movie support in the PS3 would be so popular?"

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thePatriot - 538 days 2 hours ago

slow motion bullet time. you can see the bullets flying at you. + with eye toy you can move your head to dodge them. good article btw

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buddyro - 538 days 2 hours ago

Sony has unknowingly created a multi-tiered market for themselves reason for my assumption is because there are billions on the line and no room for mistakes. Also when the Ps2 came out people were saying that they wished they can play Ps1 games on it which happened thats when they realized they can co-exist in harmony think of it as when you want to fight someone how can they defeat you when you bring your family which Phil Harrison keeps on saying. That in its self proves they knowingly created it thanks to the people who wanted to play Ps1 games on the Ps2 by doing so Sony had to rethink there strategy. From a business stand point it makes no sense why do you think Microsoft stopped production on the first Xbox ?????? (I do not work for Sony or Microsoft this is just my opinion if you are offended I am sorry)

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Hellangelzx - 538 days 2 hours ago

I heard about one year earlier, that sony didn't have intentions of releasing a ps4, that ps3 was the final system they would come out with.

Have they changed this?

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SmokingMonkey - 538 days 2 hours ago

3-d gaming and 3dtv sounds really weird, and probably going to be pretty nauseating (sp?) as well.

PS9 will be a chair with a syringe that "jacks into" your brain ala the Martix.

DON"T EVER MESS WITH "THE FAMILY" not even the great nintendo has this mafioso class to it to have ever been called a family, and they are the original console gangsters.

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Asurastrike - 538 days ago

Do you honestly thing that Sony didn't know what is was doing when it created a 10 year cycle?

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Thugbot187 - 537 days 23 hours ago

The gamers that think the PS2 will cause an issue aren’t ignorant. They just are aware you cannot have two rulers without losing servants to the other. The PS2 and PS3 can exist with each other; you just give something for the other. PS2 had the larger install base and unfortunately that hurts the PS3. PS3 needs the larger install base to win favor over the 360 for the sake of getting exclusives and getting developers to make more games.

Sorry to say while Sony is able to hedge its losses with the continued existence of the PS2. In the long run it ends up taking away from the PS3. So when it’s time to finally retire the PS2 the PS3 may not have a library comparable to what the PS2 offered. So what then?

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tojfs7931 - 537 days 20 hours ago

We really didn't expect the ps3 to sell so poorly compared to the ps2, so we are going to keep supporting the ps2 for as long as we can because thats where the majority of our money is being made right now...

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PS3ALLDAY122 - 537 days 20 hours ago

wouldn't the ps2/psp be the older bros to the ps3 just saying

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undercovrr - 537 days 19 hours ago

sony didn't 'unknowningly' create this for themselves, they planned it all along.

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supremacy - 537 days 15 hours ago

@superaktieboy 8.5 -

seriously that wont happen why? well you see the ps3 isn't exactly a beast when it comes down to the memory so... if sony is to say...upgrade the psn by adding features than that 8th SPE along with maybe one other would become unusable for the developers thats for sure, so the ps3 might end up being like a ps2 next to an xbox but probably cheaper and superior in other areas.

256 of ram doesn't exactly help the ps3 in anyway, so the cell is pretty much what evens the ps3 architecture out. just think...

features like fw 2.40 along the expected features like say...

1. voice/video mail.
2.cross chat (cant go on without this)imagine you on the browser searching for something, your buddy playing a game while both chat with one another via headset.
3. flash support and more speed for the browser.
4. search engine in ps store( that would be nice to have) checked!
5. time/date/ weather via ps button press, )this might not be a needed feature but its convenient to have specially if your playing hours before you are set to go out somewhere) checked via LIFE
6. more psone classics on the ps store, specially 3rd party psone ips strider, contra, final fantasy 7,8 ect.
7. ps2 games for distribution on the ps store( this way those without BC can enjoy in the action as well. plus it would make the psn that much better if you ask me.
8. pre-loaded thumbnails/images on the ps store.
9. music & tv shows store( i mean if any company has the power to this its sony they own one of the biggest tv and music production studios on the planet so yeah the rights shouldn't be much of a problem.)
10. double or triple the friends list count, asap. checked!
11. a more in depth profile system, like what games you play most favorite genre, when last seen online, what type of gamer you are, your accomplishments thus far ect.
12. 4/6way voice/video chat, yeah i know danm,....
13. alert sound/ log in, log off sound,
14. alert sound/ message sound, sound for every time you get a message.
15. Sent Message to all feature/option-sent the same voice/video/text massage\mail to all friends.

Plus things like HOME, LIFE with playstation, and the video store will add to that usage as well.

and games like killzone 2 already use 4 of those SPE's? look if the psn is to improve or match xbox live feat by feat the Spe's will be hit as they will be targeted as well. so lets just say that the cell has been keeping the ps3 a float with the 360. had the ps3 had say 512 of ram instead of the 256 it currently has than the SPe's wouldn't have to be put to use for simple tasks that should come included with the original architecture.

so because of what i just listed above i disagree with your theory sorry.

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bama - 537 days 13 hours ago

The PSP and PS3 aren't doing well so I don't see the logic in this. PS2 is almost dead as well. I'm talking in general about PSP, as in overall, not Japan.

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supremacy - 536 days 19 hours ago

@KeiZka 16.2 -

lol okay so the ps2 is eating up ps3 sales we all know that but that really isn't hurting sony as much as it should, i mean that were to be the case the ps2 would have been removed from shelves its that simple my friend. after all the ps2 like the ps3 is sony's property so its cool to them i suppose.

now what really hurts them however is MS buying all these exclusives and eating their market share, and nintendo assisting with the wii, that hurts them, not so much the ps2 my friend.

the other thing you got to realize is that, the ps3 is also a blu ray player and a cheap one at that. and trust me a good percentage of ps3's have been sold as blu ray bundles and have garner sales in that area as well as the gaming area.

look by this time next year blu ray would only get cheaper and movies will become more affordable which is also to say the ps3 will remain the cheapest yet among the best blu ray players on the market. that said the ps3 is bound for some more growth and sony will start making a profit sooner than most people think, i mean go ahead read the articles is all there sony had cut its losses by more than half in just over a year, so in another year or two they will be making a profit, and for sony no it wont be too late i mean heck the ps2 is still here for crying out loud.

even when ps2 first came out the psone was still around doing its numbers while the ps2 sold to the masses as a cheap dvd player. obviously the games than started coming from left and right and next thing you know the ps2 became the most dominant console of all time thus far. as for the psone well? that got phased out quietly.

now had sony taken sega's route and started releasing consoles every other year than that would have been a different story my friend, yeah i know sony isn't the market leader anymore but they aren't dead, those guys are making profits of their platforms, once the ps3 starts making a decent profit than im pretty sure you will see the ps2 go the way of the psone.

also by this time im pretty sure sony would have more exclusives to offer its customers, i mean uncharted 2, twisted metal syphon filter, GT5, Heavy rain, wardevil, and many more are being prepped for 09 and beyond.

the way i see it even the wii will still be around long after the new xbox system hits shelve in a few years, why? i mean right now MS is really the only one who could really afford to keep bringing out consoles like sega did, and not that nintendo or sony cant either but looking at the economical situation the gaming industry is under, is purely easy to see why sony would keep the ps3 running even long after the ps4 arrives to the scene.

and your right sony would have to sell software to recoup their losses but so does ms and every one else in this business, but again the ps3 has at least two venues of recouping these loses, one of them is of course the games, and the other is blu ray movies, which kept the ps3 afloat in 07 when it supposedly had no games?

so i don't see why this has to change or will change in a few months specially when the good films start to hit this fall, man and with the amount of people buying HDTV's these days with those specials going around just before February you know when the digital era begins and everyone is pretty much forced to upgrade their television sets, who's to say sony isn't going to take advantage of this? with their tv promos, games and movies?

lol man.... so right now sony is on the right path and it isn't hurting like many like you to believe. bottom line is, sony is fine, and both the ps2 and psp are doing them more good than harm, especially if you consider ps2's role in all this is to after all help offset ps3 losses. better the ps2 eat up some of your sales than say.. the wii? lol

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Silogon - 538 days 5 hours ago

There won't be a PS4. Ps3 was a disaster and whaT I see them doing is opening the PS3 up for users in a pseudo Ps3.5/ps4 kind of thing.

I see Sony having removable ram, removable hdd's, removable sound chips and removable network adaptors. Sony will supply a redesigned PS3 case with interchangeable components to them. The games will be made with a set standard and of course be able to produce better visuals via your own upgrades. Like a computer/console.

That is where I see Sony going after the failed PS3 finally gets buried.

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dale1 - 538 days 5 hours ago

bets on the ps3 2009 onwards kills the competiton including the wi,its already spanking the 360 worldwide and with a price drop and the ever expanding bluray sales and hdtv sales what other system out there gives the whole package in one machine,unless you want some ugly add on,s under youre new hdtv,man i like clean lines no litter like the 360

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juuken - 538 days 3 hours ago

I like that article.
It has a lot of truth in it.

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 538 days 2 hours ago

One day your trying to act as if your no fanboy,spewing nonsense like
"im the voice of reason" or "i love all consoles,i just voice my opinion"

then there's other days,where it's just pure nonstop Sony bashing
Where you reek of fanboy.

..Bi-polar disorder or what?

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sonic989 - 538 days 2 hours ago

the ps3 will get the 3d interface via update from sony
using the mitsobishi technology to add 3d support for ps3

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sonic989 - 538 days 2 hours ago

next time be more sure before you write anything writer

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Mr Fancy Pants - 538 days 2 hours ago

very interesting article...

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grantps3 - 538 days 1 hour ago

indeed

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DFresh - 537 days ago

I like the article and everything mentioned in that article is true.
From a business stand point Sony has a great thing going in the long run with gaming consoles.
Everybody should take a lesson from Sony about how to market a console cuz at this point they are unstoppable.
The way of the Samurai that coming from Japan is just taking over the world when it comes to Entertainment.

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