Uncategorized 27 Nov 2006 05:36 pm
SONY Loves Failure
Sony is at it again. The once dominant electronics giant seemed to be in touch with every single electronic device you could ever want. Television, recievers, Walk-mans, speakers, microphones, etc. When you went to the store, it was the one brand you know was a cannot miss. You paid the extra money and you got Sony. Rock solid features, good build quality, and a great sense of style and knowing your product was going to stay relevant for a long time.
You bought Sony and you were paying more, but you were safe.
Somewhere along the line, Sony decided to go ahead and shit the bed on the whole idea of a good customer service. Maybe it was being the only one at the top for so long. Maybe they thought their fans were so loyal they could go in any direction they wanted.
I think it was plain ol’ greed. Sony hit it out of the park with the Playstation. They sold a ton and built up a huge following out of nowhere. It had simple design, durable quality, cool control interface, and loads and loads of games. There was really only one bitch about the console. Sony’s memory cards. To save your games, you had to have them. The more saves, the more memory cards you had to have. They were completely proprietary. You really had very few choices. And Sony sold a metric ass load of them.
Thus began the downward spiral. Sony since that time has pushed product after product with proprietary systems that the consumer isn’t interested. Sony’s camera’s were highly regarded, but came with their shitty memory stick format. Congrats. You pay twice as much for half the space. Every other manufacturer is selling compact flash in the consumer and pro-sumer lines. Digital cameras you buy and Aldi’s discount groceries where the blue hairs fight you for the cheapest moldy bread sell cameras that use a decent memory format.
Sony came out with there digital walkman after letting Apple, and complete outsider to music players and music libraries, run away with the iPod.
Sony’s product? A good looking product with a shitty ATRAC music format that no one uses. Did it play mp3’s? Shit no. Why? Why play mp3’s when every single device lists itself as “an mp3 player.” Again Sony locks you down in a crappy music format that no one wants.
We could go into the battery fiasco and the rest of Sony’s faltering but they are too numerous.
Again, Sony is betting the farm on their game player. A $600 machine whose graphics output look about on par with a console that is essentially built out of generic parts and was out a year previous for 30% less money. Way to go Sony. The controllers are worse, the games cost more when you can find them, and they hardly have any available.
Sony is on the downward spiral. It has ignored the consumer demand and tried to demand what the consumer do. We’d miss you, but Samsung has taken the lead and producing everything we could want from you with hight quality, better price and a respect for the consumer.
If you’re smart, you’ll be buying ditching your SNE shares or shorting that stock like crazy.