The PSP has definetely affected Sony. The whole homebrew scene has begun to tear down that department a bit, and a $500 console isn't really what people want to buy.

Yeah. I think Sony will have to shape up, or end up like Sega.

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I think Sony is having trouble staying on top with its products. It used to be that what ever had the brand name Sony on it was the best. I remember 8 years ago when my dad got a TV or camera or whatever it was always Sony. Since than there have been many new companies taking the spot light away from Sony's products. And if you read statistics and stuff like that you'll see that Sony has suffered a great loss in most of its departments. The only department that keeps it alive is the Gaming department. If sony would have gone with a dvd player in the PS3 like xbox 360 and came out like last march it would be number 1 among gamers. The price would be less and Sony would be not so much hated. But Sony is trying to push Blue Ray as much as possible. And if they win the format wars with their Blue Ray format, Than they will be restored to their formal glory many many years ago. And they'll do much better. But if they lose like they did with the Beta Max and UmD formats thany they will go down. I read somewhere in the news that Sony lost 94 percent of their profits this year because of the PS3. So if you guyz want a PS4 someday than you guyz better show your loyalty and throw $600 at Sony to help them out.

I've had a playstation orginal and it was great, i had the original tony halk game and everything. Never got PS2 cause I was young and momy and dady said it was too expansive. One summer my friend told me and new systems comin out called "xbox". I said that sounds gay, I said "A box with a X on it?" BUt when he got it i came over to check it out to see what it was. Started playing PGR 1 and graphix were nice. Than HALO, and I was like o shit. Begged my parents and they got me an xbox 3 months after it came out. I still have it. Now I got my 360 and Halo 2 and a bunch of other cool games. Im glad I spent that $400+. It was worth it. I like that they don't push HD-DVD. I think thats smart, cuz if Blue Ray does succeed than a Blue ray add on will appear. If Blue ray loses.....u think you'll see a HD-DVD add on for PS3? Will PS3 survive? who knows.

I guess we'll see wut happens in 3 years..........

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the most anoying thing is that they keep delaying release time, like with the psp cammera, psp gps, and the ps3 in australia which is now coming out after christmas. which is really pissing people off and drasticly loosing there trust, which is one of the worst things a company like sony could do. if they do keep loosing our trust then they will be out of business becauce people will get tired of waiting and just get wat is avalible to them, in australias case, most people would give up waiting for the ps3 and just buy a xbox360.

but i still thank sony for the psp, and theres no way that any of us here could hate them for that.

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well they certainly arent doing a very good job advertising, btw whatever happened to sega? they still sell consoles and games in my old country of moldova (i'm in the US now) and they are quite popular, and now the psone has just "come out" over there and the ps2 is somewhat there and isnt even popular, lol i guess that's just the way it happens

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well basicly the sega dreamcast went the way of the psp,(everyone downloading games),and i guess sega lost so much money they said we quit.

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dam thats like goin back in a time mashine, gota go there sometime

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yeah thats just the way things are there, when i came here i thought all the gaming stuff was just mind-blowing here, thus i became a gaming-nerd

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I dont think its the end of sony at all. The only people that actually worry about realease dates, homebrew and dare I say it, Lik Sang, are proboly 2 or 3% of Sony, or PSP users in general. And the PSP is a tiny branch of the Sony tree, so I dont think they can go the way of Sega.

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