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The "Sunday Herald", Scotland's independent newspaper, has released a rather lengthy article that questions Sony's capability to continue.The practices that once made Sony an entertainment superpower back in the 80's and throughout the 90's have placed Sony in a position where it has to face an "uphill struggle to capitalise on the games console range." Basically they say that things look bad for the corporation.
It cites Sony Connect, the corporation's attempt to enter the download generation, as example. It was supposed to work like any other online music service. The problem is that the company decided to ignore the universally accepted MP3 format. It came up with its own unique and completely incompatible audio format. It didn't turn out too well for them.
Some would argue that this isolationist policy of Sony is what helped get it started. It helped create the transistor radio and the walkman. The paper asserts that today "it seems more of a hindrance than a help."
The paper continues by saying that Sony has "squandered the market advantages it once enjoyed." Francis Stewart a technology brand consultant had this to say: “The strange thing here is that Sony is actually very good at manufacturing slick, attractive devices that work well. If they had just stuck to doing that and avoided tying themselves in knots over industry politics, then I very much doubt that there’d have been even the slightest doubt about the company’s future."
But the company itself seems untroubled. The company is still an industry leader, and it claims that it will continue to be one. Sony continues to be confident that the Blu-Ray format will be a huge success, and that months after the PS3's release it will reassert its position as king of the hill.
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Wow who cares about the scottish, they have a lower iq then room temprature.. and up there its pretty cold...
Lets all cower in fear of... wait for it... "THE SUNDAY HERALD". Sony is doomed for sure...
its quite a funny article actually lol now considering i work at currys, i can tell you from my sales point of view and from the companies point of view, that sony are THE biggest, by a long way
is that Sony doesn't have bottomless pockets like Microsoft. Enough screw-ups and they could fall... and right now they're screwing up at every turn
When will people understand that Sony's Playstation will never, ever, ever, ever, ever.... ever fail... Why? It's too large... and Sony is too smart. Just get over it, Play the games and not the hardware. After all that's what gamers are meant to do... not *****.
dude, i don't think you should tell anyone you work at curry's ... you might as well say 'i'm totally socially inept and more stupid than a retarded goldfish'... but seriously, why is it vogue to slag off sony? has anyone ever wirtten an article about how they're doing well? just look at how the one time a company said 'sony will win the console war' it was relegated to a tiny piece of another article... here's an article header: sony are still winning despite mistakes such as minidisc, atrac, rootkits, connect, umd, and betamax.
"has anyone ever wirtten an article about how they're doing well?" [sic] Have you forgotten what console was out there singing its praises back in the Playstation and Playstation 2 era? Have you forgotten the media buzz around it? Sony's just getting theirs for having mouthed off at E3. They laughed off the DS instead of seeing Nintendo as a proper competitor and look what happened. No, this is just Sonys work done upon themselves. ALL companies need a wake up call now and then or they'll let victory get to their heads. Sony's just answering to themselves here.
Sony messed up, but they're learning and now support MP3. Uhh, blu-ray is differnt, it's a new medium sure but it's got a ton of backing and Sony isn't the sole creator of it, they're merely believing in it.
"Price will not be its only disadvantage – by the time the PS3 arrives, the Xbox 360 will have been on the market for a full 18 months. Sony’s more fanatical supporters will not be deterred, but the PS3’s position will be a tough one." He sees into the future that the PS3 is delayed until April. "Take the example of the PlayStation. Such had been the dominance of that games console that when Microsoft launched its own machine, the Xbox, few gave the upstart any chance of success, and when consumers bought only 30 million units to the PS2’s 200 million it seemed that Sony’s position truly was unassailable." He really has nailed the numbers... ..."long-awaited next generation PS3 console will not be launched until November. Even then it will arrive on the market with a $600 (£315) price tag – close to three times that of its nearest rival." Reading the text that mentions only Microsoft, Sony, Xbox's and PlayStations you get the impressions that the next rival is an x360 priced three times lower than the PS3. Nice. "...Blueray. A next-generation optical disc format , it allows users to store up to 50GB of data on a single disc. That is a lot more than the 15GB that will fit on the rival HD-DVD format," "Toshiba’s Armour says: “We went to the major Hollywood studios and asked them how much space they needed to release a high-definition movie. They said 15GB. Then we spoke to the manufacturers, and designed a backwardly compatible medium that would not require expensive retooling. Sony did completely the opposite. I think it was a strange choice to make.”" And how big are the movies on the HD-DVD? Did they make a disc that small? I guess asking opinions from Sony's rival is a good way to prove a point.
it was for psp only! it was only for psp to watch movies. betamax lost the public, but it was a huge success in news and tv since it was a higher quality. why cant any one get sony didn't create umd for storing high quality movies, it was for the PSP ONLY!!!!
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