Sony Halts PSX Production Due To Poor Sales

[KingJ2002]

TOKYO--According to Weekly Gendai magazine, Sony has halted production of its PSX due to lagging sales. The PSX is a hybrid PlayStation 2 and personal video and DVD recorder with broadband capabilities. Released in December 2003 in Japan, the PSX sold 40,000 units on the day of its launch and continued to sell in the five digits up until the end of the month. However, its sales began to decline at the beginning of 2004.

"We have a structure where we run our production lines according to the movement of demands ," a Sony spokesperson told the magazine. "We are currently deciding on the timing of when to restart production, with consideration given to adjustments in our inventory." E-mails and calls to American Sony representatives went unreturned.

While Sony anticipated the machine to be a success, the PSX was dogged by misfortune. Last holiday season, controversy erupted after consumers learned that the machine would ship without many of its originally announced capabilities, such as PlayStation broadband support and MP3 playback. Sony has since released two firmware patches for the PSX--one in February and one this month--that add to the machine the omitted capabilities.

"A lot of things have been said about the failure of the PSX inside the company, but it was probably due to the unrealistic way that its development was conducted," says an unnamed source close to Sony. "The development [of the PSX] was being handled by the games division and the next-generation Blu-ray Disc development division. The [PSX's] controls were being developed by the games division, while the Blu-ray Disc division was doing the AV parts. But the divisions couldn't work too well together. As a result, the capabilities of the PSX became incoherent, and it ended up as a machine that's neither a game console nor a DVD recorder."

The Weekly Gendai article marks the second time that the relationship between Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony's Blu-ray Disc division has been mentioned. An article last month in the magazine Asahi PC addressed the possibility that Sony’s next-generation game console may use Blu-ray Discs (BD-ROM) as its media.


Source: [i]GameSpot

[jstorm01]

shyt I wouldn't buy it also cost way to much money & i bet i wouldn't even use all the extras sony put on it. Its kinda i waste if you ask me unless your got ton of money to burn theres no need to buy this.

[Camron Kosciozko]

Yea, i cant even believe there were great sales for this things but the japanese are like sony brainwashed zombies or somethin.

[Nyceane]

800 bucks..

i thought they would only sell like 100 units world wide..

[Zenien]

Man the tech department had their heads up their abutts with that one. I'm glad the SCE branches aren't that dumb.

[poweredbyrice]

teh first mistakes to kill sony's console career...

[Link]

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[iceman_505]

Wow I'm pretty surprised. Sony has been pretty flawless on the Video game front. A sign of things to come perhaps?

[DarkLink]

I would love that. Sony has been on top long enough. It's time for someone else to be number 1 and that someone else is nintendo of oourse.

[Camron Kosciozko]

Wow I'm pretty surprised. Sony has been pretty flawless on the Video game front. A sign of things to come perhaps?

The dam thing was 800 dollars....no1 even thought it would sell the amount it sold so ofcourse its gonna drop in sales after the sony cr@ckheads get a stab at it.

While i do think sony will eventually fall, this is defintely not a sign of it.

[Neo SilverHarvest]

$800 sounds like a ridiculous price. Unless there's rich people out there who's cool with it. (no offense to those who are wealthy)

[goldenaxe2]

I would love that. Sony has been on top long enough. It's time for someone else to be number 1 and that someone else is nintendo of oourse.


Nintendo is normally on first with the handhelds.

[GTEboy*]

darn you king I was gonna post this. Anyways bad news for Sony obviously. I also can't beleive the system sold in the first place. I could buy everything it has for under 800 dollars. Whatevr the Japanese obviously don't care if they loose money.

Does this mean the failure of the PSX much like people thought the GC was doomed. I don't doubt it. Anyways it's not like it's that big of a deal, PS2s are still selling like hotcakes. Anyways this is going much the way of the PSP. Sony promised many features then announces half not to mention it'll launch with a high price point most likely.

[ludacris06]

Sony released this garbage, not Sony Computer Entertainment, the ones who created the PS1 and PS2.v

[Sega_Sage]

Yea, i cant even believe there were great sales for this things but the japanese are like sony brainwashed zombies or somethin.

I would say America and Japan both are sucked into the Sony spell. Europe is free of Sony because they have Philips (a dutch company) who pretty much runs the electronics show there. Anyways, look at all the people who own a PS2. Look at all of the people with a Sony Vaio PC or Lap top. If you saw Spider Man two years ago, you gave money to Sony since it was a Sony Pictures movie. The disc man somebody carries around here...most likely a Sony. Sony just works into peoples minds with electronics.

Anyways as for the point of the article...I figured that this device was bound to flop once they cut like half of the features. It made it too similar to the standard PS2. The original model was going to have stuff like Tivo and DVD recording. The current model of the PSX doesn't. So now it is like a PS2 that can play MP3's and burned DVD's. That is not worth the near $500 difference in price. Not like this will phase Sony though. They have Spider Man 2 coming out this year and the PS2 hasn't lost much steam...

[poweredbyrice]

you forgot sony music, whihc include xzibit, and mobb deep.

[Zenien]

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The PS2 is still the dominant sales leader by far and outsells the other 2 consoles combined, on average, 3 to 1. There's also that whole selling over 50 percent of all the software thing.

[Undergrad]

NO ONE is gonna pay $800 for a upgraded 3 year old console! they would rather buy a pc and a good graphics card with that money

[Link]

The PS2 is still the dominant sales leader by far and outsells the other 2 consoles combined, on average, 3 to 1. There's also that whole selling over 50 percent of all the software thing.

What? I didnt even mension ps2. :? Anway, why does the ps2 still sell? Doesnt everybody already own one?

[Zenien]

My bad, I missread your post :oops:

[Link]

hehe, its okies :)

[^Apex^$hockWave]

i think it was too late for sony to develope this type of machine, the ps2 life spand is almost dead, so why now? if they would of done it in the bigining then i say they would of sold.

[Exeox]

YEAH! Take that Sony, I don't think they've ever suffered a defeat before. I think I'm so happy, I'm gunna cry. :D I predict the original Playstation will die next.

[Chaos_Master]

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[canberra25]

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[version 7]

TOKYO--According to Weekly Gendai magazine, Sony has halted production of its PSX due to lagging sales. The PSX is a hybrid PlayStation 2 and personal video and DVD recorder with broadband capabilities. Released in December 2003 in Japan, the PSX sold 40,000 units on the day of its launch and continued to sell in the five digits up until the end of the month. However, its sales began to decline at the beginning of 2004.

"We have a structure where we run our production lines according to the movement of demands ," a Sony spokesperson told the magazine. "We are currently deciding on the timing of when to restart production, with consideration given to adjustments in our inventory." E-mails and calls to American Sony representatives went unreturned.

While Sony anticipated the machine to be a success, the PSX was dogged by misfortune. Last holiday season, controversy erupted after consumers learned that the machine would ship without many of its originally announced capabilities, such as PlayStation broadband support and MP3 playback. Sony has since released two firmware patches for the PSX--one in February and one this month--that add to the machine the omitted capabilities.

"A lot of things have been said about the failure of the PSX inside the company, but it was probably due to the unrealistic way that its development was conducted," says an unnamed source close to Sony. "The development [of the PSX] was being handled by the games division and the next-generation Blu-ray Disc development division. The [PSX's] controls were being developed by the games division, while the Blu-ray Disc division was doing the AV parts. But the divisions couldn't work too well together. As a result, the capabilities of the PSX became incoherent, and it ended up as a machine that's neither a game console nor a DVD recorder."

The Weekly Gendai article marks the second time that the relationship between Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony's Blu-ray Disc division has been mentioned. An article last month in the magazine Asahi PC addressed the possibility that Sony’s next-generation game console may use Blu-ray Discs (BD-ROM) as its media.


Source: [i]GameSpot


i think the product is still expensive just like wireless/hotspots.
not everyone is embracing the future yet
if anyone saw the presentation of kutagari it was introduced that future multi-media experience will be a networked
tv, pc, ps2 etc. will be hooked up on a server, and surely that server will be hooked up on the internet
maybe in a few more years consumer will see it
and it's not only sony who's making a setup like this
i saw on PBS that samsung is on it's way