Sony is a hardware company. So they thought they were great at making and evaluating hardware. Ironically, the CEO of nVidia once stated that nVidia is a softw

Sony is a hardware company. So they thought they were great at making and evaluating hardware. Ironically, the CEO of nVidia once stated that nVidia is a software company - the graphics cards are just dongles that monetize the software. This is what Sony missed. The story I heard was that when sony finally went to buy a graphics card, they wouldn't pay for the software side of things. When nobody could get any performance out of it, they went back, cap in and and asked for the software to go with the hardware. Don't know if it's true, but I developed on PS3 and it feels true. As I understand it, it was US developers and leaders like Mark Cerny that begged sony to stop fucking around and just make a console with a big cpu and a big gpu.