Sony Stock Rises to Highest in Five Years

[JTK]

So you mean Sony isn't about to burn in the ground for the "overpriced" Ps3?!

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by JTK

So you mean Sony isn't about to burn in the ground for the "overpriced" Ps3?!

You mean that "expensive" 60GB PS3 system that outsold it's cheaper 20GB version 9 to 1 when consumers were given the choice.

That one

[Jim L]

If you look at my sig, you'll see that I've certainly done my share at increasing Sony's fortunes. (I think that at least 25% of BD collection is Sony SPHE too).

But I'm far from an outright blind Sony fanboy. I just tend to buy good quality for what I can afford. In several of their products they are the standard that everyone else is measured against.

Though Sony has had some financially rough times in recent years, they do make some incredible products and they have positioned themselves very nicely into gaming, music, and films.

I remember reading years ago, when they were strictly an electronics company, an article about Akio Norita (the former president of Sony). In it he basically said that it was very hard to make a long term profit in electronics. Everything eventually becomes a commodity, but content was where it was at. I'm so glad that Sony wised up years ago. They've still continued to innovate in entertainment. They make more profit in content now, but they continue to plow a lot of money into electronics R&D. A lot of what we enjoy now is due to Sony (CD, HDTV, digital imaging, etc.).

Microsoft is now trying to do what Sony did many years ago when they diversified.

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by Jim L

Microsoft is now trying to do what Sony did many years ago when they diversified.

Absolutely..the difference is Sony are engineers at heart so you get very high quality products and a lot of innovation..

The original Xbox was the case for MS as well..too bad for them they strayed from it's original promise and let the trash talking marketing bozos take over. They got a lot of things right with the original. They added very little with the 360 and hence no incentive for me to upgrade.

The PS3 delivered everything I thought the 360 was going to be and did it in a very high quality package. So not only did MS not deliver they delivered a very poor quality version of it. Still I would have considered a 360 at some point if the quality was increased..but..

..then they took their already abusive behaviors to a totally new level against the PS3 and Sony and they can kiss my money goodbye now... it's just unacceptable behavior and in the process they created a Linux convert, an Apple convert and we are about to pick up two more PSP's for our kids. Just waiting a bit to see if a PSP Lite is coming.

And more importantly we aren't going back to their stuff because of their *behavior* not the inferior technology.

[dobyblue]

Great article man, thanks for posting it.

There are some really misguided and misinformed HD DVD zealots out there in the world aren't there?