Theres just so much great bad news for the ps3 that if I made a topic for each story I would be called a spammer. Heres the good bad news.

-Is the playstation doomed?-

blogs.zdnet.c om/collaboration/?p=184

Read the full article with the link.

Sony, putting aside the human toll of massive restructuring, is a fascinating example of the carnage happening in the business world today, and the stifling of innovation in large companies. Todays multinational conglomerate had humble origins in post WWII Japan: Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a bombed-out building in Tokyo, and was joined by his colleague Akio Morita a year later.

These two innovators built Japans first tape recorder and went on to experiment with transistors, a new invention at the time. The resulting transistor radios and subsequent creativity produced an explosion of consumer and professional products synonymous with quality. Its hard to overstate how innovative the company was in its youth: even the name Sony - a made up word which could be copyrighted and was one of the first global consumer brands - was hugely controversial in Japan, where it was unheard of not to have a company name in Kanji, and wildly creative and attention getting in the western world.

So how did this creative dynamo deteriorate into the opaque bureaucracy that is Sony today - a company which is ubiquitous on the planet but unfocused compared to for example Apple, who claimed the next generation of personal audio - and the massively lucrative content market - after Sonys hugely successful WalkMan?

-Why are so many ps3 exclusives kept secret?-

Read the full article at link below

www.ps3informer.c om/playstation-3/games/why-are-so-many-ps3-exclusives-secret-009662.php

Another possibility, and one that fanboys will undoubtedly prefer, is that these secret games are being kept that way because of their immense awesomeness. Perhaps Sony and the development studios involved have crafted games so amazing, so innovative, that they dont want to risk them being copied by unscrupulous competitors. If this is the case, maybe we really will see a true, top secret game surface in 2009.

-Playstation3 possibly inching closer to an early "gameover"-

Oh yeah I bet. And its all the medias fault to, Right ACEMANWISE? It has nothing to do with its ridicolously high price tag. LOL

Click link below to read the full article.

www.gamertell.c om/gaming/comment/rumor-playstation-3-possibly-inching-closer-toward-an-early-game-over/

While there are undoubtedly a multitude of gamers who are proud of their Playstation 3 purchases, Sony business executives are not as confident, considering that their choice gaming console remains consistently behind the competition and possesses a negative stigma as a product with features that fail to justify its high cost.

Unfortunately, regardless of the current state of the Playstation, Sony business executives have more considerable issues to consider, if this report from the UK Times is any indication.

That publications report mentions that Sony is due for sacred cow-slaying measures which will abolish or fundamentally alter many of Sonys long-standing business practices.

I guess you saw my thread about the Aussie mag saying the PS4 would come in 2012?

I just read that article right before you made that thread.

While there are undoubtedly a multitude of gamers who are proud of their Playstation 3 purchases, Sony business executives are not as confident, considering that their choice gaming console remains consistently behind the competition and possesses a negative stigma as a product with features that fail to justify its high cost.


Speaking of the high cost of the PS3, that reminds me of the PS2 not being as big of a high cost to make compared to the PS3. That's why Sony will most likely either release a souped up PS3 w/out blu-ray as the PS4. If they do that, Sony can get back to being the leading consolemaker just like in the PS1 and PS2 days.

Sony cannot afford to screw up with the PS4.

Sony cannot afford to screw up with the PS4.

Too late. They let MS in the door with this fuckup and Nintendo is a powerhouse now. The days of Sony ruling are forever gone. Their electronics division is a shambles because of their outsourcing and stiff competition by Samsung, Panasonic and many cheap Chinese companies.
Sony will be fine in the end and will not die but Sony will not be the company it was during the 1970's and 1980's. Those days are never coming back.

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skip_sparks wrote:Theres just so much great bad news for the ps3 that if I made a topic for each story I would be called a spammer. Heres the good bad news.

-Is the playstation doomed?-

blogs.zdnet.c om/collaboration/?p=184

Read the full article with the link.

Sony, putting aside the human toll of massive restructuring, is a fascinating example of the carnage happening in the business world today, and the stifling of innovation in large companies. Todays multinational conglomerate had humble origins in post WWII Japan: Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a bombed-out building in Tokyo, and was joined by his colleague Akio Morita a year later.

These two innovators built Japans first tape recorder and went on to experiment with transistors, a new invention at the time. The resulting transistor radios and subsequent creativity produced an explosion of consumer and professional products synonymous with quality. Its hard to overstate how innovative the company was in its youth: even the name Sony - a made up word which could be copyrighted and was one of the first global consumer brands - was hugely controversial in Japan, where it was unheard of not to have a company name in Kanji, and wildly creative and attention getting in the western world.

So how did this creative dynamo deteriorate into the opaque bureaucracy that is Sony today - a company which is ubiquitous on the planet but unfocused compared to for example Apple, who claimed the next generation of personal audio - and the massively lucrative content market - after Sonys hugely successful WalkMan?

-Why are so many ps3 exclusives kept secret?-

Read the full article at link below

www.ps3informer.c om/playstation-3/games/why-are-so-many-ps3-exclusives-secret-009662.php

Another possibility, and one that fanboys will undoubtedly prefer, is that these secret games are being kept that way because of their immense awesomeness. Perhaps Sony and the development studios involved have crafted games so amazing, so innovative, that they dont want to risk them being copied by unscrupulous competitors. If this is the case, maybe we really will see a true, top secret game surface in 2009.

-Playstation3 possibly inching closer to an early "gameover"-

Oh yeah I bet. And its all the medias fault to, Right ACEMANWISE? It has nothing to do with its ridicolously high price tag. LOL

Click link below to read the full article.

www.gamertell.c om/gaming/comment/rumor-playstation-3-possibly-inching-closer-toward-an-early-game-over/

While there are undoubtedly a multitude of gamers who are proud of their Playstation 3 purchases, Sony business executives are not as confident, considering that their choice gaming console remains consistently behind the competition and possesses a negative stigma as a product with features that fail to justify its high cost.

Unfortunately, regardless of the current state of the Playstation, Sony business executives have more considerable issues to consider, if this report from the UK Times is any indication.

That publications report mentions that Sony is due for sacred cow-slaying measures which will abolish or fundamentally alter many of Sonys long-standing business practices.

I dont like what you do.................................. But that first line was hilarious, LOL