Sony To Go From First To Worst?

There have been many analyst predictions in the early days of the next-gen consoles, but rarely have they been so direct. DFC Intelligence President David Cole has gone on record saying there's a very real possibility Sony could lose this leg of the race to Microsoft and Nintendo. From the article: "Sony's clear strength is the first factor: brand strength and current market position. The glaring weakness of the PlayStation 3 is price, especially when compared to the competition. However, it is more than just an issue of whether the PlayStation brand strength can justify a premium price. Of course, Sony would like to point to the hardware horsepower and extra features like Blu-ray. The problem is that is only one factor in our forecasting matrix. Furthermore, with the competition having features like Xbox Live and the Nintendo Wii controller, the PS3 may not have that much of an advantage in the elusive 'Wow Factor.'" 1up Editor Sam Kennedy has further musings on this subject, with Next Generation reporting that there may be a problem getting high yields in the PS3 production process.

Re:The Problem is ...

[Anonymous Coward]

still got her number?

Re:try this one on for size...

[grogdamighty]

Your analogy would be true for in-generation comparisons. In this case, however, I think it would make more sense to say that Sony beat Microsoft to win the last World Cup (and Nintendo barely got out of the first round), but in this World Cup Microsoft has already won their first game of pool play while Sony and Nintendo are still prepping for their first game. Oh, and Sony keeps cutting players. ;)

Re:Sony boycott

[Eightyford]

Even if they had priced the PlayStation 3 at $59 instead of $599, I wouldn't have bought one. I still have not forgiven them for installing rootkits on all of my boxen, thus 0wning my boxen. It just goes to show: "0wn me and I won't 0wn your stuff."

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Re:Sony boycott

[RobotRunAmok]

I still have not forgiven them for installing rootkits on all of my boxen, thus 0wning my boxen. It just goes to show: "0wn me and I won't 0wn your stuff."

Happily for Sony's Investors, the PS3's pricing indicates it is being aimed at a demographic higher than the 12-18 year-old market, so I'm guessing that what you "think" does not matter.

Isn't this news a little old?

[The Real Toad King]

*looks back at Sony's E3 2006 conference* *Sees Ridge Racer, Giant Enemy Crabs, and 599 US dollars* I'm pretty sure we all came to this conclusion after that.

Re:Sony boycott

[Anonymous Coward]

Each of those 200 people has a blog. By posting about this boycott on the blog, the idea can be syndicated and systematically multicast to a large part of the blogosphere. By blogoscoping to the video game micromarket, we can dynamically multiplex the thinking to create a global blogtext of anti-Sony zeitgeist, thus showing that Sony may not 0wn our boxen.

In short, Sony will suffer the same fate as Dan Rather. It will be utterly destroyed, left with no money and no influence with anyone of any consequence in the known blogiverse.

Re:The Problem is ...

[Hogwash McFly]

No, he loost it.

So Sony can come first, second, third, or...?

[payndz]

However, we should emphasize a third place finish for Sony is only one of several possible scenarios.

Several? Er, there's two other scenarios besides Sony comes third. Sony comes first, or Sony comes second.

Unless they're also factoring in the 'Sony gets trampled by Godzilla' and 'the Phantom rules all with its version of Duke Nukem Forever' scenarios.

Re:try this one on for size...

[soft_guy]

It is funny. I prefer to use video game console analogies to understand sports.

You see, the Oakland Raiders are just like the Neo Geo whereas the Washington Redskins are more like 3DO...