Stringer urges Sony to "get mad," baffle with metaphors
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 23rd 2008 4:00AM
posted May 23rd 2008 4:00AM
posted May 23rd 2008 4:00AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBZDwf9dok
since when are things bad for Sony?
Right now, Playstation 3 is outselling the 360, Their PSP's are still selling very very good (Not compared to the DS obviously), they are one of the (if not 'the'?) leading manufacture in HDTV's, they sell tons of VAIO laptops, they obviously have Sony Pictures & Sony Music that can only be doing good, they have Sony Ericsson, Playstation Brand, etc
Whatever they have been doing, their doing it right
The only complaint I have, is how disapointed I am in their Walkman lineup... Walkmans used to be what iPod is now, what happened Sony?!
Besides that 1 complaint about their Walkmans, I can't think of anything wrong with Sony, they have a good image
but of course, this is the internet, which is full of angry teenagers who need to voice their negative opinions about everything, and think what they say will change the world...so go ahead, lets hear it
Chill.
@NineT9
I'd think it has more to do with shareholder value than with consumer acceptance.
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SNE#chart2:symbol=sne;range=my;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined
http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chdet=1211227200000&chddm=1341114&q=NYSE:SNE&
well then that makes sense lol :D
My bad :) im over here going crazy ha
He's like V...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqi8m4CEEY
"At which point, the Japanese management team whispered, "what's a fork?"
That's racist! \(>_^)/
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
Ahh, fork that!
Ummm, but actually, forks are pretty much ubiquitous in Japan. Sorry.
OM NOM NOM NOM
yeah, even the word for fork sounds the same, it's "foruku." nice try, sucka.
HUMOR FAIL
Stringer said, "I'm asking you to get mad"...
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...then handed them MiniDisc recorders with a copy of SonicStage to really get the point across.
Or he could have passed them any Vaio, complete with Sony's crap pre-loaded.
Maybe he should have put it in question form.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREnvJRkif0&feature=related
Looks like Sonys exec is going Ballmer on their asses.....
A fork is what you stick in Sony. Cause it's done.
Yea, totally done with their USD$ 70 billion dollar revenue last year and $1 billion dollar in profits...
Fanboy |ˈfanˌboi| noun: defends a monolithic company by knowing dollar amounts of sales last year posted with a Fortune magazine-esque USD in front of monetary amounts [also see company insider damage control] rather than saying something less transparent like "Playstation 3 FTW!!! biotches"
Fanboy |ˈfanˌboi| noun: bashes a monolithic company with cheesy cliches instead of doing something productive with their time.
Sony has such a hodgepodge of stuff... some very badly designed.
My Sony Ericsson can play mp3s all right, but there's no standard stereo earplug for it. So I get an iPod to carry around (no iPhone in my country you lucky bastards)...
The PSP is great, but it could be so much better. First of all... WTF is it with the UMD drives? Just throw a small HD or flash in it. but now for the real deal: if you want to use skype, you have to look like some call center operator. That's just sad.
They have good tech; and beautiful design (notwithstanding their latest Vaio line which is seriously ugly). But they have a very closed mentality (UMDs; earplugs nobody wants, PSP skype only with that creepy thing).
They always screw up with the finishing touches.
actually I have to defend the UMD. It's simply necessary for them to be able to sell content cheaply at retail (cheaply meaning cheap to manufacture) and I think they hit the perfect size, too.
Downloads are slowly playing an increasingly larger role, but not anywhere near retail sales for games. Cheap-to-manufacture discs are tens (hundreds?) of levels cheaper than Flash and hard drives (not to mention more reliable).
So instead of carrying around a set of headphones with a proprietary connector you are carrying around a phone, a music player and a set of headphones with a standard connector. And this is more convenient how?
Well, did you guys read the comment? Sony is concerned about their own convenience, not the user's. That's why I'm praying for an iPhone (which has no stupid UMD, standard plugs can hear music, and downloads and good software to manage it).
And the iPhone is very very likely to displace the PSP in the gaming scenario.
UMD costs are low? Are you kidding? A download is way much cheaper, and if valve can propect their IP, then Sony should also be able to.
*Alex, the iPhone, with no tactile controls, will challenge the dominance of a dedicated gaming device in the with very strong publisher support and franchises that are household names built over the last decade, how?
*Sony sells bucketloads of games at retail, day in, day out. They need UMD, regardless of what you think. So do their customers. Downloads for PSP are growing and of course they are cheaper than stamping out discs (or flash media, or hard drives) for all involved, but aren't exactly cash cows for Sony (yet). You can argue they are doing UMD "for themselves", but the fact is, it translates to a robust medium for their customers... and if the device dies they still have their games. Not to mention the ability to share, swap and sell them at any time. Ease-of-use is also high. Very high. Put it in and play.
*UMD in a phone, of course, is totally unnecessary. Apple doesn't have to sell millions of games at retail day in, day out, so they don't need a read-only spinning disc. How would the PSP look, success-wise, if their games only sold online, especially given the PSP was initially released several years ago? I think it wouldn't be a success at all.
*PSP uses standard 3.5mm jack for audio. I plug my cans into it all the time. It's also sounds like a damn great audio device. It also has replaceable flash and battery, which Apple ignores. A proprietary connector is used to get the remote and other peripherals working in there. Apple does a similar thing with its docks. I see no real burden or big difference with the way both Sony and Apple do business here.
a chopstick joke... har har.
:P
THERE'S A FORK IN THE ROAD! HA! HA! HA!
He probabaly ment "Fork You" to Sony's competitors.
What the fork are Sony thinking? It's only 1GB, Windows compatible only, has no IR sensors to keep it from falling off a table (which the Miuro does have), it's the most useless thing to come onto the market and Sony want US$399 for this thing. Big deal it rolls, flaps and flashes to music... woohoo. Sony say they have been years in development of this toilet roll, so that's why the discontinued with Aibos? For this? Stringer needs a boot up the backside and get someone in who is actually going to come up with something more relevant than a musical toilet roll.