Sony on PS3: You're "paying for potential"

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Bodhesatva said:

Even putting aside the validity of the "ten year plan" for the moment, this is just bad marketing. Which would you choose:

1) Pay more money for "potential" today
2) Pay less money when said "potential" is fulfilled later

That's not smart marketing. You want to convince people, today, that the machine you have is the best one to buy, right now. Even if you have (very lofty) long term goals.

 

Seriously true.  I just can't understand why Sony would be saying this... I mean I know their game library is thinner than they'd like it to be, but they should at least pretend like they have an awesome library 'now' for marketing purposes.

This is just Sony aiming the gun squarely at the foot, and pulling the trigger over and over again :/