What’s up gaming wizards welcome back to top 10 gaming, I’m your host Connor Munro
and you may still not know me, but I’m sure you will.
In my first video on the channel I covered the top 10 biggest Nintendo fails, but in
light of recent events were moving on to the company sony ended up creating.
This is our list of the Top 10 Biggest Sony Fails
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10 PS3 Home Playstation home was launched on December
11th 2008 and the launch was a disaster.
The servers were inaccessible to players for a while until the PSN shut down entirely for
an hour.
When it came back you could finally get on to the PS home servers.
This was only the beginning of the issues.
A slew of connection issues, sony removing voice chat from the game to bring it back
4 days later.
While connection continued to be a slight issue, they seemed to have it under control.
They then added games along with things you could purchase for your character.
Think Garry’s Mod Hotel if you know what that is at least.
Even though they claimed the service was quite profitable there seemed to be no version for
the PS4 that had been announced.
No matter how good they claimed it was for their business they shut it down on march
31st 2015 and made way for bigger and better screw ups.
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9 The PlayStation Move The PlayStation move is essentially turning
the PlayStation into a wii, and with very limited games on the system for play station
move they didn’t really sell like hotcakes.
However, sony did step up their game with the ps4.
The play station Vr has a wide variety of vr games to play.
From Five Nights At Freddy’s help wanted to Skyrim and many more.
This is a mistake that sony learnt from that they decided to redo and improve on in the
later years rather then just scrapping the thing and giving up.
So, thank you sony, even if it may not be as smooth as other vr systems (as I’ve read
multiple reviews when I was considering getting one myself) it’s a step in the right direction.
So, when the next set of consoles comes out and elder Scrolls 6 VR is announced.
I hope you’ll improve on it even more.
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8 Polygon Man Polygon man is the former mascot for the playstation
in north America from 1995.
He appeared in pre-launch ads, commenting on various games but was dropped before the
release of the first console.
Phil Harrison, the head of Sony’s European game publishing business was talking about
Ken Kutaragi, the Global head of the playstation brand’s first moments seeing polygon man
=I remember walking onto the E3 booth with ken and seeing the Polygon man design on the
side of the booth.
Ken just went absolutely insane= he said.
Ken, was upset that they were spending their limited budget on this, and his biggest complaint
is that the shading was so flat.
So after this they took polygon man out into the parking lot and quickly shot him.
But I remembered him more recently you might be saying, as I was when I saw a picture.
Why is that?
Well, its because in 2012 Polygon man returned as the main antagonist and final boss in the
smash bro’s rip off game Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale.
And I actually have this game and played all the way through the story.
Kratos was my main!
Love being able to hit people as a bird.
But they hated this character so much they literally made him the antagonist to all of
playstations biggest hits.
And parrapa the rappa.
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7 The Xperia Play (PlayStation phone) The Xperia Play was playstations attempt to
close the gap between phone and console, and let the two connect and converse.
It was essentially a smartphone with the capabilities of some handheld gaming consoles.
This was running on the android operating system and was the opposite to the playstation
vita, which was a handheld gaming console with some smart phone capabilities.
The games planned for this device was vast with games like God of War and LittleBigPlanet,
however it would also include some older playstation games as well.
The games were expected to be under 10 bucks a pop which is pretty cheap.
Especially considering how the PSP games were 40 bucks and under.
The phone failed because it wasn’t what people were expecting, the controls on the
slide out controller weren’t synced and was just playing second fiddle to the psp.
Speaking of the psp 6 UMD
The UMD was the type of game that came with the PlayStation Portable.
I believe it stands for Universal Mini Disk, and came in an odd case that you would insert
into your psp.
Case and all.
The psp had both games and actually tv shows and movies.
I had a family guy UMD when I still used the psp and that was nice.
Being able to have that on you whenever you were bored, and when you had it charged.
The UMD had its advantages over cds.
Though they were minimal advantages.
It’s like the Nintendo cartridges, people didn’t want to adapt to the new medium so
they didn’t put out any games on the system.
I only saw a few games and like no movies or tv shows.
But the psp quickly dies and was replaced later on with the ps vita which seems to have
a slightly better rep. .
. 5 Rootkit
in 2005 sony started leaning in hard to copyright protection onto Cd’s (if you’re too young
and don’t know what those are they’re essentially dvds for music).
When you would load a cd (from sony) into your computer it would automatically install
software to prevent you from pirating the music.
It would also install a rootkit which would make windows very vulnerable to hackers.
Not only that, but sony STOLE THE ENCRYPTION CODE THEY USED TO MAKE IT.
This whole thing became a huge PR disaster for Sony and even after recalling all of the
cd’s what were infected, they were still on thin ice with consumers.
Come on sony, stay in your lane.
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4 The SixAxis Rumble The Wii and the PlayStation 3 came out around
the same time, and so it was inevitable that they would be compared to one another.
The ps3 was advertising new six axis technology with its controllers.
Unfortunately, the SixAxis controllers didn’t have vibration, like the DualShock 2’s did.
They claimed it would “interfere with the motion sensing technology.
And since the Wii controllers had both motion sensing tech and vibration, the community
was quick to call Bs.
Sony even ended up proving themselves wrong when they released the DualShock 3 controllers,
which had both motion sensing technology and vibrations, all functioning perfectly fine.
They need to realize that lying to consumers isn’t a good idea, especially when you prove
to that consumer base that you were lying.
When you come out of the exact thing you said couldn’t be done.
Years after your competitor did.
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3 The Great PSN Outage In 2011 the Sony PSN or Playstation network,
lost all functionality due to an “external intrusion”.
The servers were hacked and approx.
77 million accounts were compromised and it prevented all users of the PS3 and PSP from
accessing online services.
That means Youtube, Web browser and online gameplay were all shot.
We were left in the dark.
It even beat out the 2007 TJX hack which affected 45 million customers.
Various government officials is several countries voiced their concern over the theft and Sony’s
one week delay before warning users their data might have been stolen.
They said on April 26th they were hoping to get things running within the week.
They released an update on may 14th that required users to change their passwords before logging
in but the online services weren’t fixed!
On may first sony announced a welcome back program for customers affected by the outage
that involved restoring gameplay accessing account management, access to playstation
home, your friends list and chat functionality but not everything was back.
According to sony the services were taken down intentionally for maintenance due to
potentially related activities during the initial attack.
None of this makes up for people knowing my password is I love Ysolda Sony.
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2 The 600 Dollar Debacle After the huge success of the Play Station
2, Sony thought they could do whatever they wanted and fans would be happy.
HA NOPE!
With a hefty $600 price tag at launch the Play Station 3 was beaten out by the Xbox
360 easily.
The internet was flooded with video clips, images and more showing Kaz Hirai delivering
his infamous 599 US quote.
But at least they corrected themselves with the ps4 by cutting their price to be below
the Xbox one by about 100 dollars.
So, they saved face there.
But that’s still 200 dollars less than what the ps3 was selling for at launch.
The original price is also the same price as the Xperia Play.
Let me know which one you think is more worth it in the comments below.
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1 Disney This is more recent news and doesn’t necessarily
have anything to do with gaming or games.
But its by far the biggest screw up sony has had for a while.
Disney and Sony have been re-negotiating the terms of the MCU spider man films.
They reached an impass about negotiations and their partnership as a whole.
The original story is that they wanted to split the funding for the movie 50/50 but
that seems to maybe no longer be the case.
Kevin Feige is the head of marvel studios and has been overseeing the recent spiderman
MCU movies.
Disney has since pulled him from the next project for reasons sony would not explain.
Sony claimed that the many new responsibilities that Disney has given him—including all
their newly added Marvel properties do not allow him the time to work on movies to which
they do not own the rights too.
Maybe this means that Disney wanted to buy spiderman back from sony and they refused?
As of recording we don’t have many other details but hopefully those will come our
way soon.
Maybe along with the announcement of another spiderman ps4 game, since recently Sony has
bought Insomniac games, the developers of the last one.
. So, there we have it, out list of the top
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