How does SONY do it?

Every day, I'm impressed by SONY and the talented people who work for this wondrous company.

The PS4 is nothing short of spectacular. It was engineered with such elegance and precision that you'd think God himself designed the machine. It's so powerful and efficient, yet cheap and affordable. The 8 GB GDDR5 RAM bombshell sent the entire lem faction into mass suicide, as they couldn't contain the insurmountable ownage that SONY has done on their asses. How? How did SONY make such an incredible machine with just a few million dollars in R&D? How did SONY utterly dominate microsoft even when Microsoft spent $6+ billion in R&D. Even today, months after the original announcements of both machines, I can not completely fathom how SONY managed to spank Microsoft so hard.

Then we have Naughty Dog, the greatest video game developer of all time. Not even Rockstar, who spend over $100 million in development budget and spent 6-7 years developing GTA V could stop the talented folks at Naughty Dog. The Last of Us has gained unprecedented amounts of GOTY and GOAT awards, humiliating Rockstar. They did it all in 2-3 years of development, with a new IP and with only several million dollars.

As we march towards the years of this gen and all future generations, we can rest assured knowing that SONY's brilliance can never be matched and that greatness awaits for all PlayStation gamers.

By not listening to their rabid fanboy userbase and shitting the bed even harder than they do already if they had done so.

Sony needs to get back in black faster and with the Vita and everything about them that's not the PS4, that's not happening.

Meanwhile in handheld land...

@charizard1605 said:

Meanwhile in handheld land...

But teh grafix

All of these amazing feats and yet- AND YET- they can't manage to topple inferior hardware in the handheld space.

Guess God didn't have a hand in the Vita, eh?

Windows Phone has actually been gaining ground

If you're a self respecting gamer, you have to give a shit about the handheld space.

Especially since some of the best games these days are on the handhelds.

your personal views seem pretty shitty

Ahhh, so games are defined by the quality of a screen. Gotcha.

Wait how old is this thread? They are about to sell a couple warehouses full of these... PlayStation Now will be a Vita mover... not to mention there will likely at some point be PS4/Vita bundle deals for a decent price. I might actually re-purchase a Vita at some point.... maybe.

@lundy86_4 said:

Wow.

The VITA is just handheld savior that everyone ignored.

The platform (not just the handheld itself) will resurrect itself without the Uncanny Valley controls and graphics to leverage portable gaming standards for the world to see and appreciate.. hopefully with the consumer's wallets.. and released in a timely manner.

lmao

Magical pixie dust

First, Vita's superior power was going to be a Vita mover. Then its games like Uncharted and Assassin's Creed were going to be Vita movers. Then it was going to be the price drop that was the Vita mover. Then it was going to be Remote Play that was going to be the Vita mover.

So now we're on PlayStation Now, a service that is incidentally also supported on 80 million PS3s, all the PS4s that everyone is rushing out to buy, and smartphones, tablets, and TVs. Somehow, this will sell Vitas. Okay then.

Because you can't. Those games are handheld exclusives. And if you're a gamer, you're going to suck it up and follow the games, especially when the handhelds have some flat out incredible games that are so often better than console games.

@SEANMCAD: How about because it will never BE on a PC? Zelda, Mario, DK, et a will never appear on your monitor unless you're a software-stealing scumbag.

Then why is every console game not on PC as well? Why are phone games not on PC as well? Clearly, the PC would make all of them better, right?

Why bother with anything other than PC gaming? Consoles themselves are only for casual plug and play gaming at best, exclusives are just silly. Right?

Sony is truly the company for gamers everywhere. Thanks Kaz.

Microsoft market share of phones, tablets and consoles are all growing growing. (it is gaining on the Wii U at least and will give the PS4 a run for its money as some of the big games are released/price is dropped)

In addtion microsoft software/service has:

• 5% and growing of the phone market share
• 90% of the PC market share
• 30% of the web market share.
• 57% of the web browser market share
• 30% of the search market (including Yahoo, which Bing powers)
• 30% of the previous gen console market share
• 25% of the current gen market share

lol... easy their smoky. No one is saying it is magically going to sell more than Nintendo handhelds... that is HIGHLY unlikely on about every front, however, to think this wont move some units is ignorant.. plain and simple. The Vita has not sold well due to a lack of support... it doesn't matter WHAT games it gets, if there are suddenly a LOT more then yes, they will sell much better. I could be wrong, but I rarely am.. We will see who is right. If I am wrong I'll be the first to admit it, but I have said that countless times on this site and as long as I can remember... I have not been wrong. Call me Witstrodamus if you will.

Also... I was NOT one of the ones who said this, that, or the other would move Vitas, and quite frankly I could care less... I'm just saying that THIS will. Mark my words... and this is coming from someone who DOES NOT own a Vita... I did.. but got rid of it due to LACK OF SUPPORT.

So many of these threads claiming dominance. Save the dominance threads when you have a decent backlog of exclusives that Xboxers might actually be jealous about playing. Killzone, Knack and Resogun are not enough to give anyone console envy im afraid.

Its not looking good for Sony, selling 1.5 mil more than the competition is a mild victory if you can say that given they are making a loss on the hardware (unlike MS). Financially they are in real danger.

TC you answered you question yourself it is GODS hands

PS4 offers good value at $400 but it's certainly nothing special (yes it's a bit better than the xbone) when it come to performance. A hi-end pc from 2010 (talking about dual GPUs here) outperforms the ps4, no doubt. And that's unprecedented that a game console is outperformed by a pc that is 3 years older than the console itself.
I think the ps4 offers good value as I said, and I will buy one later this year for the exclusives but performance wise it's not very impressive.

@charizard1605 said:

Meanwhile in handheld land...

Waits for a cow to respond with a "meanwhile in the console land" with a Wii U picture.

Anyway I really do like the design of the ps vita. Kind of reminids me of a more modern sega gamegear. But im not really into handheld gaming. handhelds are good if you're on a long road trip or something but if im at home id much rather be playing console or PC games on a larger viewing screen.

This has to be the joke of the century. God created the PS4? Then I guess the Master Race was invented by a force so powerful that they are greater than God themselves. 8GB of RAM sent the lems into mass suicide? Then I guess the amount of RAM in modern gaming PC'S sent the entire inferior race peasants into mass slaughter, as they couldn't contain the insurmountable ownage that their masters have done on their asses. Even today, long after the original announcements of both machines, I cannot fathom how the Masters managed to spank the inferior race so hard that they became their toilet paper. I guess its because we are the God you spoke about, and we are the creators of the consoles.

Good question TC, how does Sony manage to turn their fans into brainwashed idiots that will spout any old nonsense in order to show people the "majesty of Sony"?

nope Windows Phones are absolutely sh*te, as much power they have and the whole new decent camera it still doesn't compete with apps, the apps are horrid the rubbish windows 8 boxes are bland and don't truly intergrate with anything, facebook app is slow and unresponsive with half the interaction of facebook esp when you can use the web browser to use facebook, twitter doesn't work properly.

When samsung seem to have just nailed it, everything worths andriod has a billion apps which work, i honestly think microsoft needs to ditch the bland tile fiasco of windows 8, it really does nothing good. my phone is horrid which is a windows phone i really wish i never went for different.

@bobbetybob: How does Sony do it ?

mmmm :/

The games aren't defined by the screen, but the "playing experience" can be. Playing a game like Mario Kart on 3DS actually hurts my hands because the device is so small and awkard for me to hold (the buttons are so damn tiny).

I also wouldn't say the "best" games are on handheld either. Are there a few good ones essential to handhelds? Sure. But there's a ton of ports. Look how many N64 ports ended up as FULL RETAIL 3DS games - and the Vita is getting a ton of PS2 remasters as well. However even for games that aren't "ports", many of the supposedly NEW experiences literally look like they could have been taken from previous console eras.

That being said, I've only played a handful of games each on 3DS or Vita. But I have played some of their top games, and while it's a fun little diversion neither one is "essential" to me by any means. And even when a game is really great, one of my first thoughts is usually ("damn, too bad it's on a handheld").

Speak for yourself. I find my Windows phone to be a huge upgrade over my last Android phone (Galaxy S2). Is it the app market much smaller? Sure, but I really only find myself "missing" a couple of apps.

I'm sure if i paid attention to mobile games or I needed thousands of apps (why?) I would maybe miss something. But as a phone, and for what I need it's a far superior experience. If it continues to gain traction, it will continue to get more apps.

And yet MSoft took market share from both Android and Apple.

Those lumia 520 is in everywhere cheap but realible and the camera is decent for $60 off contract phone

http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-says-windows-phone-beating-iphone-24-markets-044508728.html

You could have blogged this. Hlopefuilly Sony paid you for your time in writing your opinions.

Sony makes nice consoles, but their first party studios leave a lot to be desired for the most part IMHO.

Most people if they actually used a Windows Phone they would never go back to Android/iPhones. The Windows Phones are far more user friendly and integrated and I don't have to buy into some draconian music service to actually have my own music on my phone.

I'm impressed by Sony as well. Compared to the xbone the PS4 has a better GPU, CPU, and ram while also costing $100 less. The controller and online have been improved greatly and to many people are superior to what's available on the xbone.

The PS4 is the most powerful console of all time with the best combination of 1st and 3rd party games available all for $100 less.

Makes me happy to see Sony will be back in first place.

Yawn.

What i have a windows phone and i think they are dog awful, integrated? there rubbish you know there rubbish when it's easier to use apps oin the phone through the web browser than the actual app.

Plus Nokia themselves had to be bought out because the phones were rubbish it's the windows 8 style, it isn't as smooth as apple or samsung. until windows phones get the apps like andriod do then they are always going to be beaten and better.

@Pikminmaniac: lol as compared to who? Go play your kiddy ass Nintendo games.

Why do Cows feel the need to make threads expressing their love for Sony? Are you all in a cult now or something? Is Kaz hurting you? Is he touching you? Do I need to go get an adult?

Try actually reading before you comment. I said nothing about the quality of Windows Phones, just simply that they had gained market share. Dumbass

I don't know how some of you guys do it...owning handhelds, every console, gaming on the PC...it all leads me to believe that some of you are not particularly well-rounded individuals.

To those of you that game on everything, do you have hobbies outside of gaming? How do you find the time?