Any chance of PS3 not being called PS3?

[jvd]

http://www.gamers.com/news/1357034

Sony Tops Japanese Brand Survey
By: D. F. Smith April 21, 2003 6:05 PM PDT

Sony is Japan's most well-regarded brand name for a second year running, according to a survey by Nikkei BP Consulting. The maker of the PlayStation 2 and uncountable other electronic devices led a field of more than 1,000 brands, according to a sample pool of some 23,600 Japanese consumers.

The top five were as follows: Sony, Walt Disney, the Fuji Television network, Studio Ghibli (Hayao Miyazaki's animation company, makers of Spirited Away), and car manufacturer Toyota.

Heh and yet sony products are allways the first to fail. (sorry a bit bitter about that 800$ dvd player that wont play a full movie 7 months after my father bought the damn thing. Or the dv camera that magicly stores less and less each time. Or the 3 psx's that have stoped working , or that 1 ps2 that stoped working )

 

[Panajev2001a]

A lot of people ( really ) have Sony products and thus the small percentage of failures is more visible.

 

[jvd]

A lot of people ( really ) have Sony products and thus the small percentage of failures is more visible.

Lets not get into how many subs of thier i've blown in my car.

 

[iapetus]

Sony have special hardware they fit into all of their electronics which detects how much you like Sony and causes failures accordingly. The less you like Sony, the more their hardware will fail/work incorrectly/explode. It's the only explanation I have for the fact that some people get through Sony kit like there's no tomorrow, and know hundreds of people who've done likewise, whereas others are still on their first launch-day PSX and don't know anyone who's had one fail on them.

As others have said, Sony would be fools to change the name of their system by dropping Playstation. I don't expect to see that happen until the generation after a Sony console fails horribly, or the day before Sony announce GT4 is to be exclusive to XBox Live.

 

[London Geezer]

WELL as much as JVD likes to diss Sony, i have had my PS2 ever since the day it launched. I use it as a single entrtainment system, playing ALL of my CD's and ALL of my DVD's. I usually go to sleep with music in the background and my PS2 has been on OVERNIGHT PLAYING CD's (sometimes music DVD's like concerts and stuff like that) loads of times.

It only gave me some *disc read error* messages a couple of times, which COMPLETELY disappeared after a ride with a Laser lens cleaner. Actually, loading times even got better after cleaning the lens.

Also i own a Sony Surround System (DD5.1&DTS5.1) which has NEVER EVER given me ANY kind of problems.

I also own a VERY old discman (portable CD player - at least 7 years old) which has NEVER EVER given me any problems.

now u see why some people are pretty satisfied with Sony products. and i'm pretty sure it all comes down to how people take care of the products. come on, 3 psx's and 2 ps2's..... i think that the problem is not the hardware, it's the owner...

 

[thundermonkey]

I've had no probs with my PS2, but I've had probs with my GCN and Xbox.

Hell my original PSX is still in perfect working order.

GCN froze in the middle of Metroid Prime, and once in Rogue Leader. My Xbox froze twice during Halo, and a few times with the moronic discs that OXM hands out.

 

[marconelly!]

Lets not get into how many subs of thier i've blown in my car.

You seem to be buying awful lot of Sony products for someone who's so disappointed in their quality.

 

[maskrider]

There is no single failure for all Sony products in my house

1. 29" TV (since its release, 10+ years)
2. PlayStation (a year after its release)
3. PlayStation 2 SCPH-10000 (since its release)
4. PlayStation 2 external HDD (since its release)
5. DVP-S7700 DVD player (since its release, around 5 years)
6. DVP-S9000ES DVD player (since its release)
7. Surround system (since its release, 3+ years)
8. MD Mini combo (since its release)
9. VCR (3 years, bought it after the failure of my Mitsubishi VCR)

 

[London Geezer]

....which strengthens my point:

IT'S NOT THE HARDWARE, IT'S THE OWNER.....

 

[Deepak]

Well! SONY will drop PLAYSTATION if MS agrees to drop WINDOWS!

 

[Tagrineth]

I've had no probs with my PS2, but I've had probs with my GCN and Xbox.

Hell my original PSX is still in perfect working order.

GCN froze in the middle of Metroid Prime, and once in Rogue Leader. My Xbox froze twice during Halo, and a few times with the moronic discs that OXM hands out.

It's a loading glitch with the GCN hardware.

And RL has a couple known 'oopses' in the code, but that's forgivable considering how fast the game was made.

 

[Almasy]

....which strengthens my point:

IT'S NOT THE HARDWARE, IT'S THE OWNER.....

Yeah, I tend to believe that too. I had my PSX (before I sold it since PS2 had backwards compatibility) for about 4 years without a single glitch. My PS2, has never given me a problem, and it´s about 2 years ikd.

There´s also plenty of Sony hardware in my house, and aside from one exception, every single Sony product in it has lasted at least 8 years or so. Ironic that I got a PHILLIPS DVD player and it only lasted for 6 months. :?

 

[jvd]

....which strengthens my point:

IT'S NOT THE HARDWARE, IT'S THE OWNER.....

Not in my case . Considering i still have my first nes that works perfectly. I have my intelivision that i started playing with when i was 3. that still works . I have all of my original systems actually. Except a supernes and the playstation and the ps2. I get free sony subs from my friend that works there though . The dvd player is not mine and it is my fathers. The 3 times that he watched a dvd on it could not have broken it it was defective. But of course london boy I am just dissing sony. If this happened with u you would be giving the same list i did . Btw i have a sega cdx (the portable one) That i use as my discman and its been on many a nights and never had a problem with it . I have a ps2 from launch day too . Its in my brothers room cause his stoped reading dvds a year after launch and sony wanted a 100 bucks to fix it . So i parted with mine. Lets not even get into the playstation. They should have recalled the first million of them. IT was the worse set of systems ever released at launch. there are articles counting the 1.3 million systems that had hardware problems causing them to fail that sony never admitted

 

[vrecan]

I've had 3 different ps2's go out on me (bought one launch day here in america). I barely even use the thing it just sits on top of my tv never been moved or anything... I still have my original psx though, it just seems like the build quality of the ps2 is very sub par. Everyone of my friends that owns a ps2 has had atleast one go out on them.

 

[BoddoZerg]

Let us not forget that just a few years before the PlayStation, "NES" was synonymous with console gaming machine. People would say you were "playing Nintendo" even if it was a Sega or 3do box. (As long as it wasn't an Atari...)

Brand names are awfully short lived in the technology world.


But frankly, I can no more imagine Sony changing the name of the PlayStation than I could see Disney changing the name of Mickey Mouse or Coca-Cola changing its name to something else.