After just several years of operation, Sony is finally closing the doors on it’s fledgling digital music distribution service we all knew as Sony Connect. It seems competition was just too much and Sony just had to stop the bleeding. All assets and resources will be absorbed into the Playstation business.

Why did Sony Connect fail? I believe they attempted to emulated the iPod+iTunes model. Unfortunately the experience going from computer to store to music player wasn’t as user friendly. It also had limited content since the Connect store gave preferential treatment to Sony’s own music label. The final vice being Sony Connect existed in the Window’s world, a place where vertically integrated businesses just don’t work.