Sony Sucks

The PS3 costs more, has fewer games and doesn’t sell as well. On top of all that - the graphics aren’t quite as good as the Xbox 360: Gamespot

“Pity poor Ken Kuturagi. The creative genius behind Sony’s videogame consoles — the PlayStations 1, 2 and 3 — announced Thursday that he would step down as CEO of the company’s games division, which means his career there will end on a sour note, the sound of defeat.”

“Decades from now, PS3 vs. Wii will be remembered as a cautionary business tale: how pride, politics, and an overabundance of technology can blind you to the simple truth of what consumers want.”

Source: CNN Money.com

Penny Arcade’s take on the Sony online store. Guess what? It sucks.

You can get the MP3 of the song by Doc Adams here on Xbox Live Community Radio

“Whenever I ask Sony’s PR folks for an evaluation loaner, the answer is inevitably “We only have a few units. I’ll put you on the list for one of them.” Except for the T350P, I’ve never seen a review unit: not for the UX180P or the UX280P or even the tiny Sony Mylo Internet communications device not mentioned above.”

“Clearly a company of Sony’s size could find the bucks somewhere in its deep pockets to make maybe 5 or 10 or even 1,000 review units available to product evaluators. This makes me wonder what Sony is so afraid of.”

“I don’t think the issue is money. It’s a desire to shroud new products in a fog of mystery, a fear of honest reviews and a certain disdain for most of the product evaluation press. That’s all too bad.”

Source: THG>DenGuru> What’s Sony Afraid Of?

PS3: But if you’re just looking to have a good time good luck figuring out which buttons of mine to push … and by the way, my vibrating features have been disabled.

Wii: All you have to do is just touch me and you’ll have the time of your life.

When played on the PS3, your PS1 and PS2 games will actually look DRAMATICALLY WORSE than on their original systems. Watch the video for a comparison.

The PS3 resizes the graphic output of PS1/PS2 games at a low resolution with no filtering, causing artifacts and amplifying jagged edges.

…take a look at what Microsoft big boss Bill Gates had to say about HD-DVD in an interview with engadget.com:

Way of the dodo…

“In terms of movies, I often say that this is the last format battle there will ever be [hd-dvd and blu-ray], because everything is going to go online — you’re going to download it. In fact, one of my favorite features on Xbox Live is where you can go and get the HD demos of the games or get HD videos like the making of the Xbox, the making of Titanic, they’ve got this Mission Impossible 3 thing.”

The HD-DVD Drive Goes the Way of Sega’s 32X

“…26 percent of online posters express a general dislike for the format, citing Sony’s history of proprietary formats which fail to capture a marketplace (like BetaMax and MiniDisc, and, it’s looking like, Sony’s UMD movie discs). Many posters also felt Sony was an “arrogant” company.”

DigitalTrends on Cymfony market research

“In 2004, Sony launched an e-book reader in Japan that also failed to take off. Called the Librie, it won plaudits for design, but its high price and draconian antipiracy technology — users could only “rent” books from Sony for 60 days before the tomes deleted themselves — scared off consumers.”   - BusinessWeek

Really?  I’m shocked!  Sony created a decent product and then hamstrung it with unbelieveably shortsighted and stupid DRM?  That never happens!