The Sony Playstation 2

Game is unity of the biggest markets in the accreditedism most of people like to p cast game for relaxing, or at the sp ar time with friends. flock of all ages are players. Report has pointed out the global spending on pic games-games comfort computer hardware and associated games-exceeds that spent at cinema box offices and is double the video rental market. Many firm much(prenominal) like Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony seize this prospect and plan to enter this biggest market. The competition has been intensified among the game market, who result be the winner?The market attracter for hand-held, port sufficient consoles is Nintendo-its Game Boy, launched in 1990, has sold swell and consistently. Games console which are coupled up to a domestic television screen comprise a larger theatrical role of the market , and this is where Sony has become dominate. In 1994, Sony was a non-entity in the video games market, however by 1996, it was the world leader of its fast growth ma rket. At the end of 2003 Sonys accumulated sales of 12 million games consoles was well in excess of rivals Sega and Nintendo. The stronger financial support is definitely the reason of successful for Sony. However, those just one small fictional character of reason for the success of the Playstation, the primary(prenominal)ly reasons for the success of the Playstation are below* Adequate knowledge form technology, which had been authentic over many years. It was able to derive synergy from its competencies in both hardware and software product.* Suitable quantify to entered the market, to avoid some unnecessary competition with rivals. Sony timed the launch care risey and entered the market just one month after Sega launched its new Saturn console, the origin 32-bit machine. This suggested that the real competition in this sector of the industry lay between Sony and Sega, rather than with Nintendo as well, although in 1997 Nintendo launched its 64-bit N64.* Its pricing strateg y for consoles. Sony knew the real profits came from subsequent software sales and happy to cross-subsidize a relatively low-priced console. They likewise enjoying cost saving through the assure curve effect and happy to pass these on to consumers.* A number of attractive licensing deals, which fostered it, build up a strong portfolio of games from the outset. A number of key games software companies were persuaded to switch their allegiance to Sony.1* Sonys advert campaign was very specifically planned. Sony worked out exactly what they wanted the adverts to achieve. They also aimed to make people withdraw of the Playstation as powerful and destructive, using the line, Do not under-estimate the power of Playstation in many of its adverts.Those intelligence ideas help Sony become a winner through this competition. So they are the strengths of Sony Playstation, which made Sonys market share grows in creditable rate. And helped Sony corporation build up a good constitution amon g the consumers that will become profit for Sonys further competition.Late in 2000 Sony was unable to satisfy the early demand in both the US and Europe for its new Playstation 2. The problem has come. It was experiencing internal supply problems of critical components. This is a real fault for Sony in Christmas the peak sales period. This could affect the profits of Sony Corporation. When Sony was struggling with the launch of Playstation 2, Microsoft and Nintendo realized this is a good opportunity to launch their new game console into the video games market. They believe there was a real pass off that some customers would switch to the game console of Microsoft and Nintendo, if their intended first choice Playstation were no available. This is a real threat for Playstations position in the video game market.As Nintendo and Microsoft launch their new game console into the video game market, something has been changed. Reports said that sales of Sonys PlayStation 2 console are d own but sales of Nintendos GameCube console seem to be on the rise. The holiday sales of Nintendos GameCube rose over 70% from a year ago, while Sonys PlayStation 2 sales did not fall as sharply as expected. Nintendo also said that it would easily achieve a global sales target of six million GameCubes for the full business year. Its sales are directly being attributed to GameCube price cuts in Japan, Europe and North the States in September and October of 20032.However, Sony Corporation is keeping finding many opportunities for them to keep their opposition in the video game market. They noticed that entered an established market crap to offer some value, something clearly different. So they try to add the new function, new technology into PlayStation 2. For example the graphics on Playstation 2 are of cinematic quality and the console has a DVD reader, which can run movies. PlayStations hard drive would later be able to accommodate and Internet connection and allow users to buy g ames over the Internet and download them directly on to their machine, they also could play game online. In addition, PlayStation 2 is a 128-bit machine now, but it was not the first 128-bit machine on the market.Another mainly opportunity for Playstation 2 is their software (games). They categorized their games into 5 main types adventure/strategy games, driving/motoring games and simulations, sports, fighting game and platform games. By Sonys good reputation there are more and more software companies available for the Sony Playstation than are available for any of its rivals. In 1999 Sony had 90 companies developing games for Playstation 2 and was determined that 50 news games would be available for the launch.Playstation 2 also creating a unique opportunity for content providers and third party publishers from their biggest online community. In 2003, the massive Playstation community proven yet again the enviable advantage of strength-in-numbers as games for the number one sellin g platforms flew off the shelves in record amounts. Playstation 2 software led the industry with close to 3 billion in tot up video game sales for the year, nearly terce times as much as its close together(predicate) competitor. This is first online console community is also the most popular, with the Playstation 2 online base growing nearly three times as fast as that of Microsofts Xbox live.Sony wants to hang on its leadership in the computer games industry. That appears to be Sonys thinking as the electronics giant moves ahead with development of the next version of its PlayStation video game console, which is well known as Playstation 3. Japanese media reported on May 6th that the PS3 console is in development. The refinement is to make new processor technology, called grid about 200x faster than current console technology. This is almost achieving their legitimate goal of making the PS3 1000 times faster than the PS2. This goal was publicly set by Mr Okamoto, the aged(a) VP and Chief Technical Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, at the 2002 Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California.Playstation 3 may become a major threat to the other company in the game industry. So when Sony hold back for the future, one of the rivals review recent past, Pete Isensee, lead developer for Microsofts Xbox Advanced Technology Group, used his GDC talk to deliver a mostly positive critique of the Xboxs journey to the market, lauding a product launch that happened on time and without major bugs, a departure from Microsoft history. Microsoft has this stigma about not getting it right until version three, he said. We didnt have a choice with Xbox. If we didnt get it right with version one, Sony and Nintendo would eat us alive.3 Nowadays, Playstation 2 will be outsold by rivals, but who knows what will be happen in the next. When the new game console-Playstation 3 launch to the market in Christmas 2004, maybe everything will have a big change.