Is Sony Back From The Dead?
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Could it be true? Maybe, just maybe Sony has just been resurrected from the dead after a long series of failures and PR mistakes.
It’s funny, but I remember a time not too many years back when I swore by Sony’s products. Then it simply became too complacent and paid a dear price as it faced major challenges with Blue-ray, the PS3, and the company’s image as a whole.
But during the month of October, it appears that Sony is showing signs of turning things around. The press has stopped beating it up (as much) for the terrible performance seen thus far from Blue-ray, real demos of the PS3 are beginning to make their way into the limelight and for the first time, people feel like they have a clear consensus of where the heck Sony is going with its latest endeavors.
So where does this leave the Xbox 360? Well ahead of Sony if you ask me. Even though Sony has ‘begun’ making strides toward pulling its head out of the sand, the fact remains that the 360 is well entrenched in the holiday wishlists of thousands of gaming fanatics. Because of this simple reality, I believe that Sony still has much catching up to do. But hey, perhaps its games will do the work needed to win back the hearts of disenfranchised Sony Playstation fans? Eh, it could happen…
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paulyc64
October 21st, 2006
at 7:38am
I wonder why you omitted the very recent debacle that Sony and its horrible QA affected the entire laptop industry with their defective exploding batteries?! Like you, I used to swear by Sony’s products as did my father before me…our house was filled with Sony A/V equipment…I was an early adopter of their Walkman, loved their VHS decks once they woke up to the market futility of their Beta brand, and even carried a portable Minidisc before MP3s made their mark. Now one might argue that Sony is no different than any other manufacturing company today that is using ultra-cheap foreign labor and materials to remain competitive. But as an enterprise support manager responsible for supporting thousands of Dell and IBM/Lenovo laptops, I feel that Sony did those companies, and IT managers like me, a disservice by not disclosing the matter of their defective batteries quickly enough. Thus, the PR departments of those companies had to bear the brunt of the matter and, in my opinion, it was not fair. I understand your article was focused on the PS3 and gaming, but I will have second thoughts before putting someting manufactured by Sony in my child’s hands (or mine for that matter).