{"id":1534,"date":"2009-07-14T06:49:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T10:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/14\/going-going-gone-or-another-story-on-how-sony-sucks-eggs\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T07:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T12:22:05","slug":"going-going-gone-or-another-story-on-how-sony-sucks-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/14\/going-going-gone-or-another-story-on-how-sony-sucks-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Going, going, gone. Or another story on how Sony sucks eggs."},"content":{"rendered":"

The only reason I am posting a link to this story from the escapist<\/a> is because their content is always well written, provoking thought, and of course entertaining. But really, do we need another \u201cSony lost, blah, blah, blah \u2026\u201d story?<\/p>\n

Only the Game Boy kept Nintendo in the race, while Sony led two hardware generations. It seemed immovable.<\/p>\n

Then, a series of events brought Sony crashing down to earth. Microsoft released the Xbox 360 at the end of 2005 and enjoyed a full year as the sole next-gen console. When the PS3 eventually arrived, it did so practically in tandem with the epoch-making, zillion-selling, game-changing Wii.<\/p>\n

On the handheld front, Sony\u2019s attempt to remove Nintendo from its portable stronghold was equally disastrous. The PSP went head to head with the DS and came off far worse, hitting 50 million unit sales earlier this year as its rival reached 100 million.<\/p>\n

Then the iPhone came along, but we won\u2019t talk about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article then goes on to talk about how news of the PSP Go was leaked prior to E3 and explains that third parties could give a rats ass about Sony. All true? Probably.<\/p>\n

I did a write-up on this many moon ago; will have to see if I can dig up the original article. If anyone wants to write about Sony\u2019s struggles, just lament back to the days of 3DO. The hardware was ahead of its time, and the price point was into the stratosphere as far as the average Joe was concerned. Oops, Sony failed to learn from history.<\/p>\n

Playing second fiddle to Nintendo\u2019s DS variations probably sucks for Sony, but when you consider the number of PSPs sold is 50+ million, that is a lot of opportunity to make some money. Even if the PS3 stays in third place for the remainder of this hardware generation (however that is defined) at some point I assume that Sony wins the high-def format war. Sony gets a little slice of paradise every time you double dip and purchase a Blu-ray upgrade to your DVD library.<\/p>\n

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