"Where Sony went wrong..."

April 28th, 2007, 18:47 Posted By: Shrygue

via PS3 Fanboy


We all know that Krazy Kenny K officially announced that he was stepping down from his PlayStation empire this week, signaling the end of an era and the end of an explosive career. It doesn't take a genius to realize that Kuturagi is scape-goat #1 for any and all of the PS3s alleged failings (which include, but are not limited to, high production costs, launch shortages and lower than desired post-launch sell-through.)

Given the abrupt end to the Kuturagi saga, the analysts are already coming out with their takes on "what went wrong." Business 2.0 writer Chris Taylor has plenty to say on how Sony lost their lead and has "lost this round of the console wars to its Japanese rival, Nintendo's Wii." While we think it's too early to be making those kind of calls, the article is interesting -- even if we don't agree with the analysis in whole (or even in large part). For our lazier readers, Business 2.0 provides these key lessons from Sony and Kutaragi's PS3 development:

• Focus on making a better controller, not relying on the same "handheld mess of buttons" (i.e. Dualshock design = failure)
• Don't put drives in your console that are too slow to properly load games (I'm not making these up)
• Build a console that only costs $150 like the Wii (they have since corrected this little doozy of a detail)

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