The 9 Worst Fails In Sony History

While the consumer electronics giant attempts to figure out its latest debacle, we take a look at some of its other low-points.

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Sony's seen better days. The tech giant that helped usher in the era of personal consumer electronics is currently embroiled in a catastrophe so large that everyone from government officials to consumers have been left shaking their heads, wondering how the company will recover. The calamity we speak of is the Playstation Network service outage and hacking that's left millions of PS3 users without access to online content, and possibly with their personal billing information in the hands of cyber criminals. Suffice to say, it's not pretty. Will Sony bounce back from this disaster? We think so; it always does. While this is surely the company's worst screw-up, it's not its first. From payola scams to panned technologies, take a look at the 9 Worst Fails In Sony HIstory. 

 

 

Racist PSP Ads

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Digital Audio Tapes

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Exploding Laptop Batteries

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Hidden DRM Software in Sony BMG CDs

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Sony Creates Fictitious Film Critic

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Sony BMG Payola Scandal

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Betamax

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PSP Viral Ad Campaign

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PSN Outage

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