Sony Can't Hide Forever
PlayStation is trying to ride out the protests over its decision to end production of physical games.
PlayStation is trying to ride out the protests over its decision to end production of physical games.
The short version
- In contrast to Xbox, PlayStation is trying to keep calm and carry on.
- It's not working It has never been Sony's style to get out in front of things.
- That's in contrast to Xbox, which loves to push a loquacious executive — whether it's J Allard, or Peter Moore, or Phil Spencer, or Asha Sharma — out on stage to strut its stuff, explain its thinking, or sometimes, air its dirty laundry .
What happened
That's the Silicon Valley way, but it's not Sony's way. Give or take a public mascot like Shuhei Yoshida, the company's business executives have mostly been pretty, well, businesslike for the past 20 years, ever since the infamous car crash of E3 2006 .
Why it matters
They don't project a lot of personality or straight talk.
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