Sony Needs New Management
When I say Sony, I just don't mean the video games department, I mean the entirety of the company.
Recently, Dell announced a recall due to exploding (sometimes literally) batteries, which are made by Sony (story: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2315126 ).
Earlier this week, Sony announced the first Blu-ray drive for PC-that doesn't play commercial disks (story: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=6589).
Then you have the many terrible comments that video game department execs. have made after E3, basicly trying to defend the $500-600 (best chronicaled on the 1Up Yours podcast: http://1upyours.1up.com/).
Late last year, it was discovered that some SonyBMG-published albums had a badly-written rootkit/copy-protection, which is the worst commercial software blunder this side of Windows security.
This isn't just one department's problem, it is the entire corporation. The only thing that is saving Sony from going down the tubes (and not the one Ted Stevens described) is Spider-man 3. There has been some improvement with the new president of the video games department, but something has to change for the company as a whole. The amount of arogance and uncaring going into their products is doing more harm then good for them.
Recently, Dell announced a recall due to exploding (sometimes literally) batteries, which are made by Sony (story: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStor
Earlier this week, Sony announced the first Blu-ray drive for PC-that doesn't play commercial disks (story: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=6589
Then you have the many terrible comments that video game department execs. have made after E3, basicly trying to defend the $500-600 (best chronicaled on the 1Up Yours podcast: http://1upyours.1up.com/).
Late last year, it was discovered that some SonyBMG-published albums had a badly-written rootkit/copy-protection, which is the worst commercial software blunder this side of Windows security.
This isn't just one department's problem, it is the entire corporation. The only thing that is saving Sony from going down the tubes (and not the one Ted Stevens described) is Spider-man 3. There has been some improvement with the new president of the video games department, but something has to change for the company as a whole. The amount of arogance and uncaring going into their products is doing more harm then good for them.
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