In our latest episode of “Sony You are a Stupid Company and it’s a Miracle That You Still Exist” we have the higher-ups in the Sony company announcing that they will release the new Playstation portable only in Japan, while releasing the handheld in 2012 to the other regions around the world. Instead of fighting the 3DS in the holiday season to officially kick off the gaming wars in the eighth generation, they are taking a step back and letting the 3DS conquer the entire holiday season. Without giving a fight, they are handing the Black Friday rights to the DS systems to dominate. The Japanese audience is the only ones getting their hands on it this winter, once again proving that the Japanese gaming companies to give to shifts about the Western Hemisphere world of gaming.
This is where I stop being a news reporter and become an analyst. Sony you idiot. You stupid, stupid idiot. The 3DS was a sinking ship and despite the major price change you guys still had the slight advantage in terms of momentum. You had an ITouch-like system with a decent price tag, nice sleek look, none of the 3-D nonsense, and with seemingly all the PS3 franchises ready to invade the handheld. You had hordes of gamers willing to wait those few extra months to get your handheld. You were so close. And now you’ve given Nintendo a chance to not have to compete against anybody in the market---during a time period that Nintendo has mastered for the past several years without fail.
Have you learned nothing from the launch of the 3DS? Nothing? The 3DS launched to absolutely no success, and they are still barely making money despite the fact that one of the greatest games of all-time has been restored, remade, and re-introduced to a new generation of gamers. You don’t launch a system in such a nasty fickle industry in any time period that isn’t the holiday season. Before, Sony would have had to take on a small Nintendo wave of success heading into the holiday season. Now, whatever release date Sony has, they have to take on a much stronger Nintendo wave. With the price cut, Mario Kart and a new Mario adventure inches away, I predict some nasty-good numbers in December as long as Nintendo doesn’t fudge up the marketing.
Bottom Line: Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Sony, you are making the dumbest decision in not pushing for the holiday release date. You have a decent handheld that was one of the brighter spots of this year’s E3 show. And now, you are about to throw away all the momentum by releasing it next year---when we have the 3DS AND (repeat, AND) the WiiU lurking around the corner. While we are so sure that the WiiU is pulling a “Dreamcast,” we have to hand the award to the PS Vita, for releasing it late in one competition and pitting it against another big system that’s about to come out (Dreamcast came late in the PSX/N64 war and was released before the PS2 struck—killing itself in two different conflicts).
Sony, you had your chance.
In 2012, you are about to see the window of opportunity close shut.
Idiots.
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