Amir0x said:
We can blame whoever we want but the end result is Kutaragi is head of game division, and he has to take responsibility for what happens. That's life.
I cannot imagine how they didn't realize this would have gone bad by late 2005 - I read articles at the time predicting these very things, and it's impossible for me to believe Sony didn't have an even closer insider eye into how the format was gonna pan out in 2006.
But, in the end, the shit did go wrong... and this is where we are. If this is 'hyperbole', then there needs to be a new word for actual exaggeration - because the reality is, not much has gone good for Sony since the day they held their E3 conference.
See, that's the funny thing about hindsight; it seems so damn obvious once it's happened.
Would there be much validity to those articles if the opposite had been true? If there had been smooth launches with BD.
Would articles exhorting BDs advantages be similarly seen as accurate prophecy?
But more importantly, what can we say about the future? We can only speculate at this point; despite the difficulties that BD has faced thus far, it is still a leap to say that it is doomed completely. Indeed, at this point in time, BD still has a very good chance to succeed, in spite of launch difficulties.
So in 5 years from now, if BD turns out to be very popular, and well recieved... will you be saying, it's fortuitous, it's the prowess of KK to stay with BD, despite these early difficulties?