Sony
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Also known as: Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Network Entertainment International, Sony Pictures Global, Sony PlayStation
- A Different Strategy, The Sanest Choice In An Insane World … Chinese electronics companies currently doing other stuff deciding to do what Sony did in the 90s. 2 (the post is accompanied by a graphic table showing 2026 Major …
- You Broke It, We (Should) Own It … 1.0 Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 You Broke It, We (Should) Own It So Sony is in the news because the commercial licensing agreement it …
- Anything LLMs Can Do, I Can Do Better … Contain Residential Proxy SDKs ( archive.is ), Trevor Sutter, Spur Research 22 June 2026 ↩ Sony seemingly enforcing "stricter guidelines" on PlayStation Store to remove the mounds of PS5 shovelware …
- The Collapse of Form … Someone posted the other day a portable Sony video editing rig that looked like exactly the kind of thing that you’d use for a couple of decades …
- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games … it is red, and it has a jog wheel/button, as if it were some sort of modernized Sony Clié [3] , [4] . It was also designed in collaboration …
- Hands, Brains, Eyes … Would it be better than Sony's PS VR 2? At the very least, it's untethered. As an aside, this raises the weird prospect of not only …
- It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the Software, Stupid … And even in consoles, Sony and Microsoft executives will contort themselves into describing exactly what the videogame market is (or sub-markets) and who's in what position …
- Platform Exclusivity: Microsoft / Activision Blizzard … The proposed acquisition has made several people at the very least nervous, not least of which I imagine are executives at Sony Interactive Entertainment, the bit of Sony …
- The Software-Defined Cost of Doing Business … annual unveiling of Cars You Won't Be Able To Drive, from the Sony/Honda Afeela to the updated colour version of BMW's i Vision Dee , and …
- Duolingo, but for talking to ML Image Generators … If I'm skimming Sony's 2022Q1 report right, Network Services (which includes PlayStation Plus and Now and advertising revenue) comprise 17.5% of PlyStation's revenue. Okay …
- What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse? … Netflix, for what it's worth, is an air-quotes bigger air-quotes company than Sony with a market cap of 122.6 billion! Sony's is only …
- Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR … sell it on to Xbox Game Pass Go Don't Collect $200 or Sony PlayStation Plus Extra Premium Super or, weird also-rans Apple Arcade and... Netflix? I …
- Form Factors; Weaponizing typos to own the libs … I got sidetracked while talking about Sony yesterday into a thread with Adam Rogers about a Sony Walkman he had in 1990 that was " barely bigger than the …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition … Software Defined Brands I left the last installment thinking about what sort of uneasy, temporary partnership might exist between, say, Apple and (Sony) PlayStation (actually: Sony Interactive Entertainment …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … modeling and realtime rendering with and an asset store because it has Dreams. Sony has a whole bunch of first-party studios (and second party) that might even …
- What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation? … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention What is it like to be a PlayStation? Last episode I was thinking-out-loud about the position that Sony …
- Google Stadia, or, Winning at Videogames … But Sony? What would Sony do? Are they at risk of being left behind and losing their leadership in console videogames because there's a different game to …
- And Everything's Burning To The Ground … do all the deals with Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo. Make your place the place for photos inside videogames. Presumably there's a whole play for whatever metaverse …
- s11hiatus04/05: Stages of Transformation, and Not Trying is a Signal … A slightly more mellow than nerd rage case in point, Russell Davies (again) on Sony's new product[2] and the fact that while they're entirely capable …
- The Games Google Plays … days is an increasingly small pool of publishers who will allow it, because Sony and Microsoft are now engaged in a war of attrition to protect their platforms …
- Oh this 1.8m diameter mirror? I just happened to have it lying around … The quick version is that 2013's Xbox One lost handily to Sony's PlayStation 4, and one of the reasons why is that Microsoft went all-in …
- Eight Short Pieces In Fifteen Minutes Or Less … A million dollars isn't cool, FPGAs are cool This is just cool: " What if the Sony's PlayStation 1 CPU had a real data cache ?" is something …
- How Much Should You Own, Anyway? … not publishing or making available The Call, It Continues, And It's Dutiful on Sony's next console. So Sony should really make sure there are enough good …
- Strategy UX; Numérasse, Very Specific 3D Game Engine Aesthetics, Humming … 1.1.4 PlayStation Simon Carless has a great breakdown of Sony's PlayStation Strategy . Caught my attention because: the framing of Sony as not Nintendo (a traditional …
- The Sky Above The Port; Snow Crashing, chapter 14, part 3 … Reminds me of Sony's PS5 DualSense controller, which has new haptics and adaptive triggers [ Sony announcement , Sony technology story on haptics , Verge article ] ... because why not visualizations …
- The Location-based Pokemon Game Company … agency world for a few years, working with clients like Nike, Facebook (yeeees), Sony and… Kraft. (You are not allowed to call Velveeta “cheese”). Niantic is best known …
- Take your time reading this one … I brought user-centered, product and service design and game mechanics to creative work as a Creative Director for clients like Nike, Coca-Cola, Sony and Facebook. (Yes …
- Ambient information radiators; butter trucks; trains … Say something like “Hey Google, set an alarm for 8.a.m.” and yes I have seen horrendous Sony alarm clock manuals. Or horrendous Sony manuals in the …
- The extra bit … Is how I would describe the interesting-to-me bit of how Wired’s piece as part of Sony’s PlayStation 5 PR onslaught included this bit about …
- On Advertising. Again. … This type of thing kept coming up and was *obvious* to us when working on Sony but they still wanted to tell a great story that would help …
- What Apple Is … A consumer electronics company brings to mind someone like Sony or Samsung: discrete electronic - it's in the name - components that don't really do *computing*. And arguably …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … while back in episode 188[1], that given the Target hack and the Sony hack, what we should be afraid of is a principle of mediocrity and that …
- Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify … Are there only so many things as an industry that we can concentrate on? Whilst Sony's PS4 is an unqualified improvement over its predecessor, the OS is …
- The New Normal … 1.0 The New Normal So, the Sony hacks. You probably know all about those. About the abysmal state of corporate security that Sony Pictures Global had that …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … Disney (ABC, ESPN, any number of videogame properties), Sony (media outlets, televisions, videogames and videogame consoles), Microsoft (perpetual failed media/entertainment ambitions, not really sure what it's …
- Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber … In the roughly nine months since Sony's launch of the PlayStation 4, it's only achieved around 10 million units. And I don't even know *why …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … now - or at least tested - by startups like Oculus Rift and products like Sony's Project Morpheus. There's a lot here that's being learned in terms …
- Building Together; Beautiful Shooty Things; Software For Eating; The New Toys On The Web; Take It Seriously; And Finally … a tiny team (I think they're only around four people) and that Sony were willing to recognise it and give it space at such a big industry …
- This Is My Next; And How It Felt … Across every single account I've worked on - Nike, Coca-Cola, Sony, Kraft, Lurpak and Facebook - I've worked with fantastic, smart people and been a part of …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … Xbox has historically had this as pay-to-play for network experiences, Sony only just joined them in charing in their fourth iteration. This "prime" 3d rendered environment …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … The work my team and I did on building Sony's brand site couldn't have been done without the expertise built from an understanding of animation, CGI …
- Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central … Sony Network Entertainment International (the corporate entity operating the Sony PlayStation network) more-or-less immediately followed with an amendment to the terms and conditions of the PlayStation …
- Not Trying Is A Signal, Peak Game, EasyHard, SnapChat … A slightly more mellow than nerd rage case in point, Russell Davies (again) on Sony's new product[2] and the fact that while they're entirely capable …
- Attention, Star Trek and Cars … inspiration from people who actually know how to make D-pads, namely Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. Probably less Nintendo these days, though. Another was: car companies have all …
- The Short One … Like the Sony site I worked on recently, we've tried to do something responsive that isn't what you might normally think of as responsive. [2] https …