http://www.livedigitally.com/2006/08/21/the-demise-of-sonys-psp/ My opinions about convergence, consumer technology, gadgets, Web, and more. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.livedigitally.com/2006/08/21/the-demise-of-sonys-psp/comment-page-1/#comment-47802 Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection » Blog Archive » Was The PSP Ultimately A Failure? Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:37:15 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2006/08/21/the-demise-of-sonys-psp/#comment-47802 [...] Despite my own reluctance to invest in a PSP, I’ve always thought of the device as being very successful, but Live Digitally links to a great article by Matt Whitlock with TechLore, who seems to feel that Sony’s PSP is already outdated and that they made a number of mistakes along the way. One of the mistakes that he cites is Sony’s desire to be all things to all people. In some ways this is consistent with their PS3 strategy where they are forcing consumers to buy a Blu-ray player if they want to own a PS3, yet I still have to disagree with Matt that this contributed to Sony’s “failure” in respects to their PSP. I actually think that part of Sony’s success with the PSP came because people knew that they could go beyond video games on the console and it’s multi-functionality was a good selling point for the device. By enabling the device to play movies and music, Sony created a much more compelling product then limiting the PSP just to the gamer audience. [...] [...] Despite my own reluctance to invest in a PSP, I’ve always thought of the device as being very successful, but Live Digitally links to a great article by Matt Whitlock with TechLore, who seems to feel that Sony’s PSP is already outdated and that they made a number of mistakes along the way. One of the mistakes that he cites is Sony’s desire to be all things to all people. In some ways this is consistent with their PS3 strategy where they are forcing consumers to buy a Blu-ray player if they want to own a PS3, yet I still have to disagree with Matt that this contributed to Sony’s “failure” in respects to their PSP. I actually think that part of Sony’s success with the PSP came because people knew that they could go beyond video games on the console and it’s multi-functionality was a good selling point for the device. By enabling the device to play movies and music, Sony created a much more compelling product then limiting the PSP just to the gamer audience. [...]

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