Sony Losing The Plot

Author JoeDigital

The PS3 is a home electronics center, with Hi-Def video, Blue-Ray, DVD, Wireless, and Video Games all rolled up into one device.

As a gaming enthusiast and a fan of the PS2 I think that Sony has completely lost the plot when it comes to the PS3. Dollar for dollar it is the most complete solution on the market, the only problem is, the market doesn’t seem to know it.

Retailing at about $600 the PS3 if seen from a gaming point of view is nothing special given the current market scenario, but that is not what Sony intended to market it as. The PS3 was intended to be marketed as a complete home theater system and from that point of view it is an amazing buy.

It’s amazing how Sony step by step and in a truly methodical fashion destroyed the enormous lead it had over other gaming platforms a late release, unimpressive lineup at its launch, more expensive than its competitors and a lot harder to make games for. On the home entertainment front even though it won the format war with HD-DVD it did a terrible job of enlightening consumers about it. Many continue to buy Hd-DVd players because they think it’s the future and a lot don’t know that a blu ray player will upscale standard definition DVD’s to Blu ray quality.

At the same time competitors at circling overhead to capture the yet untapped market of the blu ray home theater player. Samsung has released a player that can stream videos of net flix, Xbox took note and now offers the same services plus a cheaper core system at $!99 and Sony’s reply to all this was to release a player that is another $100 more expensive.

Oh will the woes never end!

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