Sony Admits To “Mistakes” in Pushing Proprietary Formats
This post was published 2 years 5 months 8 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Sony, over two YEARS ago saw the error of their way, by pushing proprietary incompatible formats on consumers. Here we are in 2005 and I’m thinking sony DIDN’T learn their lesson.
Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, said he and other Sony employees have been frustrated for years with management’s reluctance to introduce products like Apple Computer’s iPod, mainly because the Tokyo company had music and movie units that were worried about content rights.
Sony’s music players initially did not support MP3 files and only played Sony’s own format, called Atrac.
Now, Sony’s divisions are finally beginning to work together and share a common agenda, Kutaragi said at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo. Kutaragi has long been viewed as a candidate to someday lead Sony.
See Sony, bucking the trend and deciding to go the road alone will only lead to customer dissatisfaction. Now take $200 off the wickedly overpriced PS3 and we might have something.
Anyone think that in a few years, Sony will no longer be a threat to any electronics manufacturer?
they may not be a threat, but they will be a powerful ally and a partner with all major players like Apple, etc…
A threat? How can they be? They’ve taken their brand for granted for too many years. Once they forgot why the name Sony was trusted, they began to lose that trust, and now they have to get it into their heads that consumers want more than a brand: they want worthwhile products.
umm we are in 2007 not 2005
I don’t get all the negative slant on Sony articles around these woods. I love their products because they virtually last forever.
Read the first couple of words of this article Andrew.
The beginning was phrased confusingly…I originally read it as “Here we are in 2005″ meaning this was from 2005. But what was meant was the below exerpt was from 2005, and we are here two years later.
Anyways, I see Sony no longer being a top competitor in the industry, but I think we will continue to see PS consoles pumped out for years.
Don’t know about them not being a threat to “any” manufacturer, but it’s not very hard to see what they did to their dominance of the video game industry. Sure other companies including Microsoft come up with products that are sometimes pitiful half-assed attemtps, but at least the case with MS is that they do it in a way that doesn’t almost bring down the entire company. You gotta have a Plan B……..doesn’t look like Sony went that route this time.