Gamesradar.com ran a list of the top 7 PR nightmares in the gaming industry. If you want to read all 7 click here because I am just going to cover number 1.
In their article they cover everything from the PS3 being loved in 05 to being just plain unpopular in 07. The article also makes mention of Sony coming across as a little detached from the gaming community.
Here are a few quotes from what was in the article:
Back in 2005, for instance, Kutaragi made his infamously weird declaration that "We want for consumers to think to themselves, 'I will work more hours to buy one.' We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else. ... The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline."
Here they talk about the lack of rumble in the SIXAXIS controller and what is the real reason behind Sony leaving it out:
It's worth noting that Microsoft also offered vibration-enabled controllers, which Sony didn't consider "revolutionary" enough, going so far as to insist that consumers didn't want rumble technology at all (even though they clearly and loudly did). Even if consumers did want rumble, Sony said, adding it to their motion-sensitive Sixaxis controller would be impossible. And it remained impossible until early March, when Sony settled their patent litigation suit with vibe-tech maker Immersion - something that, up until that point, Sony had insisted wasn't a factor in its controller design.
Click here for the entire article!
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