PS3 was on 'life support,' admits Sony CEO

LMAO!

*boing*

Dick Move..

uh, you should REALLY look up more about Kutaragi, he is far better than Stringer, its just that there were some issues between Kutaragi and the previous Sony CEO, whom ended up setting him up to fail.

The only executives I have respect for nowadays from the 3 console manufacturers are only Shiggy, somewhat Iwata, and Kutaragi

Yeah seriously. He's right. Kutaragi takes shit from fanboys, but anyone who actually knew anything about him would realize he was one of the greatest, most influential executives in video game history. The man was a genius at what he did.

Sony pushed him out because they needed a scape goat.

So, you're saying geniuses spend billions of dollars on products, sell them for a loss, cram them full of objects typical consumers won't pay extra for and talk up the unit well beyond what it actually does? Hell, I'm gonna start up a company and hire dumbasses then, guaranteed success.

I have to say I agree. Kuturugi is a very pie in the sky kind of person who has caught shit his entire career. Let's put it this way, you know how awesome the SNES sounds? That's Ken Kuturugi's design. In fact, he was nearly fired from Sony because, when he was a member of the walkman division, he agreed to take on this task from Nintendo. Sony's attitude was "we don't make toys" the entire time. Only one man stuck by him as the entire company nervously looked on at Super Famicom's debut. He fought resistance again as he decided to take on the Super Famicoms disc drive project. In fact, the first time Kuturugi saw unanimous support for the project was when Nintendo basically betrayed Sony during the CES it was supposed to debut.

Kuturugi's weakness is he's thinking 20 years down the road instead of 5. And you don't give someone like that an unlimited budget. PS3 had proven to be a money sinkhole similar to PSX and PS2 but during an era when Sony was failing as a company and needed to be refocused. Kuturugi, despite being given free reign, was taken to task for TAKING free reign and like Gumpei, had to be made example of.

The thing is, Ken isn't a PR person. He isn't a CEO or a president. Ken is an engineer and if you hung around them, you'd realize they are on some whole other shit. They don't think in terms of what is probable but what is possible. What is possibile is rarely achieved. I mean hell, what evidence, read the Shigeru Miyamoto quote on the back of a Gamecube box sometime. Then tell me that fourth dimension rant was uniquely insane.

well, go and post it then, after all, aren't you the main contributor?

lol. *yawn*. That "SDF" shit is so, so tired. As if people who stick by their Xbox 360's aren't the same way (and all over Joystiq..) shall we call them the "MDF"? Seriously.. different people like their respective consoles. we all spend a lot of time playing the games/systems we spend so much money on and love to love, but there's no reason to attack others for feeling the same way. It's immature at this point, why can't we simply have an adult discussion about the facts, and if you aren't mature enough to do so, back away from the computer.

Microsoft Defense Force, not to be confused with the
Muff Diver Force...

Okay, that was lame...

"well, go and post it then, after all, aren't you the main contributor?"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, FUNNY, YOU LABELED ME A FANBOY WITHOUT ANY PROOF OR RATIONAL REASON. 10/10!!!!1!!1

Seriously, where the fuck did you get the idea that I go to that site, much less contribute to it? Get better material.

It could be the fact that you admitted going to the site...
Dumb-ass.

And it could also do with the fact that Sony Defense Force isn't actually ran by Sony fans. Started by Sony fans, yeah. But then the Wii60tards basically bombed the site until all the respectable members left. Once it was completely husked, it was taken over pretty much as a parody site meant to openly mock the Sony fanbase.

Is it sad that I know this or sadder still that I had to have these events explained to me when I said I was ashamed to have something in common with the site contributors? Even I couldn't see past the parody there and considered it a sad, sad movement until someone told me it was a parody.

Well stated. I think there was a moment where a lot of devs almost jumped ship because of the pains of the architecture. The success of Blu-ray and increase in sales brought it back in addition to more experience with the platform.

Poor Cube.. I agree that it would be DoA if PS3 was on life support.

Gamecube DOA?

I recall teh gamecube turning a massive profit from day one... ps3... something BILLION in the hole on day one?

More things to consider than just how well publicly received a system is

Actually, Gamecube was pretty much DOA. Nintendo expected to sell 50 million by 2005... look how well that turned out. In fact, Gamecube's launch in Japan was such an abysmal failure, Yamauchi actually tried to blame 9/11. Think about that for a sec. A game console launches with two games, lacking Mario which was intrumental to N64s launch, and it is poorly received, and Nintendo of Japan blames Al Qaeda...

Nintendo managed to turn the cube around certainly, but it lost momentum out the gate and never really recovered. Sony placed pressure on their biggest threat, Xbox, by forcing a price drop Xbox's first E3 on the market. Gamecube was pretty much locking up their old N64 consumers though.

Thats a good point bringing up gamecube. That just reminded me that even Nintendo had some unsuccessful system for a while (Vitual Boy, N64, gamecube) and still stuck in the game to now be on top again.
So even if PS3 does not live up to Sony's expectations, they still have a chance of making a come back on one of their next systems. And you never know when PS3 might get a sudden surge (like PSP did recently, im sure you remember how last year everyone said it was dead). Sony has been in this business for a long time and one stumble will not stop them from continuing.
Microsot, however, has a history of giving up on their products (who remembers that phone/email integration back in the day?) So if next Xbox console does not do as well as MS expects, there is no doubt that the console gaming department will get shut down.

pavs: "Microsot[sic], however, has a history of giving up on their products (who remembers that phone/email integration back in the day?) So if next Xbox console does not do as well as MS expects, there is no doubt that the console gaming department will get shut down."

Funny you should mention phone/email integration. Guess what? I just read this week that Microsoft now has several phone/email integration products, including a new "PBX in a box" that's being sold by Costco and integrates nicely with Exchange.

As I said a while ago when the PS3 was down, it would be foolish to count Sony out. Similarly, it's wishful thinking to believe that Microsoft will bow out of a large profitable market with inroads to other potentially large profitable markets without going the distance, especially when Microsoft has a reputation for being tenacious to get what it wants.

"My balls are this big."

LMAO, I thought he was saying "This chick I banged last night, here titties were out to here"

HEY! You're an asamathat.

How is the PS3 in the portable wars?

Such arrogance Fid

You know damn well he's talking about sony as a whole company and referring to the PSP.

Premature Asshat

If you looked up the phrase arrogant dickhole you would a picture of your avatar ... Your the biggest fucking hypocrite on this site ... D me a favor and buy yourself a fucking clue ... Your hated even by people who are 360 and Wii fans ... Everyone hates you! ... Everyone hates you because you are perpetuating stereotypes and hate for no good reason ... Its one thing to be a fan of couple of consoles but its a completely different thing to pit yourself in an imaginary war and launch a PR campaign of generalizations and hateful rhetoric ... Your a joke ... A bad joke

/calling this dick suck out

Your not kidding...and did they get one of the gnomes from Everquest to interview Howard?

The only just wait until FPS is Killzone. Idiot.

Haha, great points!

So what about Haze, part of teh funny was how the PS3 fans hyped it up but it flopped massively. Aren't you sony Fans also looking toward Resistance 2?

chemical-electric reactions ... oh vay!

Something like that in a plastic form factor that could be rolled up like a poster and brought anywhere would be *incredible*

At this point it seems destined for smaller applications like a next gen lighter PSP, cell phones and MP3 players.

The thing that seems to be hurting Sony is that they are a giant electronics maker. they really crammed a lot of functionality into the PS3 and it seems all most people wanted was a cheap, powerful gaming rig.

I like the more bang for my buck!

well then you are an anomaly.