Static, if they did ship 6 million, and won't sell through them for 6 months, thats just as bad. I mean, we can assume that they wanted a high sell-through of those initial 6 million... They didn't want to stuff the channels with 3 million unsold units.
And alone, any one of the recent developments wouldn't be too serious. Together, they look like a company scrambling to improve their bottom line in the wake of poor sales.
I don't think its going to kill Sony. Their other divisions aren't consistently profitable, but more than just SCE would need to crash to take down the company. I do think we're going to see a ton of upheaval within SCE this generation.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
