Quote Originally Posted by Frobisher View Post
Sony are such masters of self-sabotage it's actually incredible that they've managed such a good recent track record for exclusives from their own studios.
To be fair a lot of that is due to the strong people in charge of studios and giving them time needed. They likely saw how Microsoft failed by rushing releases , closing studios and more. And decided ...if Days Gone needs 6-9 more months of work...damn it we give it that time.

But the main leadership of the company has always been a nightmare to deal with since they exploded into the film and game industries. In Hit & Run back in mid 90's when Sony bought Columbia they paid an insane amount for Columbia (way more than they should have) and paid for Peters & Guber on huge salaries they shouldn't have. They once instead of backing the winning home video format of the 1980's (VHS) decided to produce Betamax players. (that was a huge failure and they had a chance to do VHS but balked)

Its a company that stumbled onto Playstation when they watched Nintendo walk away from the deal. Its only the fact the people in charge was angry at Nintendo and an executive pushed them to produce the system , they may have never done it.

As me and a buddy joked , they don't care about scalpers or bots. They see the systems selling like crazy online. So they don't realize the backlash people are having.