well, it's something we all know, but it's downright hilarious to hear it from a Sony official! i commend him on being honest though.
i agree it's not that stupid of a quote. just... a little stupid, from a PR standpoint. but again, honesty is a virtue.
now i wonder how they'll be writing off those millions of PS3 stuck in their warehouses, waiting to depreciate in value. after all, if you can't sell them at $600 now, you could only sell them at a lower price later on. if it cost them $800 to make them at the beginning of the year and only $650 now, those stuck in warehouse effectively has cost them $150 each (not quite that much, more like $75 each).
creative accounting anyone? like, if as the Sony spokesperson said, they "lost less money", and it's not just about the fewer units they produced, then they HAVEN'T been honest with their accounting. which is... scary. of course, when they eventually clear their warehouse, they'll record big losses (if depreciation isn't done right, which is what I suspect), so SCE likely has at least another quarter of two of bad results on this basis.
the Wii is an epidemic.
