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makingmusic476 on 27 June 2009
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heruamon said:
Squilliam said:
Reasonable said:

While clearly not 'evil' backing a format you have no interest in just to try and mess up another format you have no interest in, because the second format is crucial for a competitor, is somewhat malicious.  Fair play in the nasty world of corporate competition, but clearly a lot closer to playing dirty than taking the high road and backing neither format until a winner emerged.

What about taking a hit of billions of dollars to ensure your format won? Dumping consoles onto the market at over a hundred dollars cheaper than they cost to manufacture? Noone is squeeky clean, especially not in the console business.

Specifically, Sony dumped TONS of PS3 onto the market at the start of 2008 for free in many cases, and enjoy some serious artificial boost to sales...what am I talking about...Buy ANY HDTV from ANY Manufacturer, and get a PS3 for free, and get 10 brd movies!  What was the business model invovled there...brute force implementation, and everyone of those free ps3 counted as SOLD ps3!  Once the deals expired, ps3 sales started to wane, and while MGS4 helped keep sales afloat a little more, it was not sustianable.   

I recall no such deals with any TVs other than Sony Bravias.

Also, most of these deals took place over the 2007 holiday season, and they were made in an attempt to bring a swift end to the format war.  The format war was over as of January 2008, when Warner went Blu-Ray exclusive.  Why would they use such deals to continue "flooding the market" over the first six months of 2008, when they were no longer needed?

I mean, are you really insinuating that the ps3's decent sales in early 2008 were primarily the result of HDTV/ps3 combos rather than the price cut to $399?  Really?