Sony’s biggest misses

The PlayStation Vita won’t hit store shelves for another month, but some critics are already declaring it a disaster, based on early sales returns.

That’s quite premature — not to mention a bit fatalistic — but you don’t get to become a multi-billion dollar, multinational company without making a few mistakes. For every Walkman and Playstation 2 there exists a handful of other Sony ideas that didn’t ring true with consumers.

Read more at Yahoo Games

Happy birthday PlayStation!

Fifteen years ago – on Sept. 9, 1995 – Sony changedthe course of the video game world. 

This sounds like hyperbole – and maybe even the first line of a press release from the company – but it’s actually the spot-on truth. It has now been 15 years since the PlayStation hit retail shelves and the changes it brought were monumental.

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog