Sony Raises PS3 Loss Forecasts

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A lot of people will probably say "serves them right, for having a stupid business plan," which is correct, but on the other hand, it's an ambitious plan, so I have sympathy for them. And good on them for investing a lot more money in games than they're making from it.

What people also forget when constantly bashing Sony is that Microsoft started in exactly this way, albeit less ambitious, with less to lose. Throwing money at a problem until you succeed is one thing, but in this case, it's not so much a problem, but an ideal that Sony has.

And maybe they won't succeed in achieving it (don't forget, the PS3's virtually only just been released), but at least they had a vision (and don't even forget what they achieved up until now with their previous consoles).

Microsoft have achieved success (finally), but what else? What have they actually done that's new, why do they deserve my money?

Now I'm not a Sony fan, I'm a Nintendo/Sega fan, and ultimately, I don't care whether Sony succeed or fail, in itself. But I've seen the games industry develop over the last 20 years, and I actually care about games being good in their own right, I'm not just trying to push games into becoming "cool" so that I'm "cool."

Microsoft deserve credit for what they've achieved - but they still haven't achieved that much. But Sony don't deserve to fail, especially when they have ambitions that will benefit you if they succeed.

Latest comment

You place far too much emphasis on innovation. Far too much. Much of what is lauded as innovation is illusory in nature in any event. The rule seems to be, "first person to make it popular gets credit for inventing it". Thus, Nintendo gets credit for a lot of things they copied from something or someone else. I don't really think that gamers, in general, care about innovation for its own sake, nor should they. They just want enjoyable gameplay. Wether that entails some apparently novel approach, or polishing up some tried and true (some might say tired and old) model is less important than doing it right.

I don't think the importance of online play can be overemphasised. This, more than anything else marks a watershed moment in gaming. I also forgot the other area where MS hs been ahead of the curve, HD. It wasn't until the PS3 that Sony answered, and their clear advantage of sole possession of HDMI was relatively short-lived. MS, Live! and the original Xbox were the driving force for this generation, they defined the questions, and thus far have provided the best answer.

I'm racking my brain trying to think of one area where the PS2 was innovative, but I can't come up with one, aside from gadgety peripherals...

Also, are you pro-rating Sony's investment in games in consideration that it is also an investment in a media war?

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