Its Time to Rip on Sony!

I'll be the first person to say that when the Playstation first arrived it was the second coming of the video game system. Then something happened to Sony. They went from a company that knew EVERYTHING a gamer wanted to, well, SEGA. They created a difficult architecture with the PS2 but yet it thrived and SONY has thrived in the gaming market most prominently on name. It was a year or so back when a high ranking SONY executive spotlighted Microsoft's multi SKU issue with the 360 and the fact that some 360's had hard drives and other's didn't that was a major problem for the average consumer. That person had said that with SONY, everyone gets the same experience. Well unless that experience is confusion, he was wrong.

I'm pretty knowledgeable about tech and gaming systems and I can honestly tell you the differences between Microsoft's 360 SKU's but quiz me on SONY's and you'll stump me in a minute. They have changed the price and feature list on the PS3 so many times already I don't even think THEY know the difference anymore. They did it with the PS2 as well and most recently they did it with the PSP. But there's a big difference between SONY and Microsoft. Okay with Microsoft you may need to add a hard drive or a larger hard drive but you can add it, with a knock on Microsoft not all system's can add the HDMI port. But with SONY when hardware changes so do features.

When the PS2 went from a full on system to the PS2 slim there was no room for the PS2 hard drive add on anymore. I'm not even going to get into the PS3 in this blog because right now its the PSP I'm ticked about. I bought one and have relatively done not a whole lot with it but SONY was adding features to it (ungodly slowly but they do) but recently the major new features are you guessed it, only coming to the PSP SLIM.

Hey I get the idea of selling more hardware, and if you're an iPod owner your the king of knowing that, but these are game systems and aside from making the insides cheaper and slimming the thing down to lessen costs don't leave your customers out in the cold. A hand held system should not have to be rebought for a new feature, sure if you WANT the new updated looking one go buy it, but "old" PSP owners are already left out of the SKYPE add on, the VIDEO OUT addition and surely the new GPS feature will soon be announced as PSP Slim only.

This is good only in a sense as every time I get close to thinking about getting a PS3 SONY gives me a reason to hate them a little longer, putting off that purchase just a bit more and hopefully getting to that next feature addition or price drop.

As for now, well my PSP sits in front of the computer monitor in its cradle quietly hoping to be used again some day (most of its uses were taken over by my Zune 80)and well I posted a photo of where my PS2 "slim" is these days, yes its pretty much only a DVD player, yes its in the bedroom and yes those are flowers on top of it. Oh how the mighty have fallen.