Bashing Season: Sony/PS3 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andrew   
Sunday, 25 February 2007 22:16

Starting off with some media here. It's necessary. Kind of like Mac's adverts, here you get "How To Kill A Brand"

Right, let's be hoping you've now listened to it. It's good shit. Now, first off:

I am not a console junky, never have been, never will be, I'm a PC gamer at heart. So I don't display 360/Wii/PS3 fanboyism. I mean, I take an objective view here, having looked at (sometimes forced to) a variety of articles, sources, etc, when I say.

Sony, you really ballsed up the PS3. Completely.

Anyone who likes my awful excuse for writing, theres this magical wonderful button, related to puff the magic dragon, called, "Read More".

 

I laugh so hard at you SONY. I actually believe, with all sincerity, my dog could do a better job with this greek tragedy of a release. You have managed to:

1) Design a product singuarly lacking a USP (UNIQUE. Being a console doesn't cut it any more Sony.)

2) Design aforementioned product to be technically inferior to market leading competition, 360.

3) Force users to use a specific, currently unadopted medium (Talking Blu-Ray, and I think it's great in it's own right. Not in a PS3).

4) Have absolutely awful PR and public image. Nobody likes you any more. Nobody. I have a stuffed panda here she's called Tchai. She hates you.

5) With this disgusting product, you overprice. Severely. In the case of Europe, you not only overcharge, but limit unit choices.

6) With such a funny price, you manage to make a loss on units . This is comedy gold. 

7) In the unlikely case anyone wants to buy your underpowered, late, proprietary bag of shite with a worse public image than Big Brother;  you manage to have huge distribution issues. That was clever wasn't it.

 

That said, exlcusive titles. Fortunately, Pandaria has been able to obtain a rare picture of a Sony staff member holding a one of these licence agreements, allowing Sony, exclusive access that they will never be released on anything but a PS3.

 If you don't understand this photo, shame on you. It's somewhat famous.

The photograph shows Neville upon his return from the Munich Agreement holding the piece of paper. He said:

"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time."

March the next year, Hitler started invading places. 

 

Not worth the paper it was written on... GG SONY.

 

Well the history lesson was fun, lawl.

 

 

Anyways yeah. If I wasn't succint enough, I'll sum it up. There is practically no reason to buy a PS3. There are three choices:

If you want a 'next-gen' console (technically now current-generation. We'll call them 7th-gen), buy an Xbox360.

If you want a fun console, but a Nintendo Wii.

If you live in Japan, buy a PS3.

 

ggkthxbai! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated ( Sunday, 25 February 2007 22:19 )
 

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