Sony has a well-documented history of making the exact same mistake they're making with PlayStation. They create an incredibly successful brand and product, and then they flush it down the toilet due to horrible self-serving executive decisions.
Their board and upper management tie big multi-million dollar bonuses to revenue and profit growth. The "arrow pointing up" becomes the motivation, and the motivation to create quality products (i.e., make quality products and get long-term customers) gets thrown out the window. That's how you end up with by-the-numbers products that lack any and all innovation.
They did this with Trinitron and Wega, the Discman, the Handycam, the Vaio, Sony Ericsson, the list goes on and on and on and on. And now they're doing it with PlayStation. They're repeating a terrible business move that's going to cost them extremely valuable long-term market share. The plot twist is it won't be Xbox or PC that gobbles up PlayStation users who want quality content. It's going to be Nintendo. There's a reason the most celebrated game in the horrible State of Play is a Japanese made "trad" game. I don't think PlayStation fully understands that the millions of PS4 users who have yet to buy a PS5 won't think twice about buying a Switch 2. They just don't understand how much of a threat Nintendo is to their entire business.
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Sony has a well-documented history of making the exact same mistake they're making with PlayStation. They create an incredibly successful brand and product, and then they flush it down the toilet due to horrible self-serving executive decisions.
Their board and upper management tie big multi-million dollar bonuses to revenue and profit growth. The "arrow pointing up" becomes the motivation, and the motivation to create quality products (i.e., make quality products and get long-term customers) gets thrown out the window. That's how you end up with by-the-numbers products that lack any and all innovation.
They did this with Trinitron and Wega, the Discman, the Handycam, the Vaio, Sony Ericsson, the list goes on and on and on and on. And now they're doing it with PlayStation. They're repeating a terrible business move that's going to cost them extremely valuable long-term market share. The plot twist is it won't be Xbox or PC that gobbles up PlayStation users who want quality content. It's going to be Nintendo. There's a reason the most celebrated game in the horrible State of Play is a Japanese made "trad" game. I don't think PlayStation fully understands that the millions of PS4 users who have yet to buy a PS5 won't think twice about buying a Switch 2. They just don't understand how much of a threat Nintendo is to their entire business.