Sony still losing money on every PS3

[sinha]

axumblade said:

sinha said:

axumblade said:
If they're still losing money on the console, would he say that under the implication that they dropped the price, they'd lose money....The title of this thread makes no sense in relation to what's actually said in here. It's completely misleading.

Wrong, it makes perfect sense for Stringer to answer the question that way: The reporter asked him what the logic was for not cutting the price, and Stringer said the logic was that they are already losing money on each PS3 sold.  Obviously if they are losing money on each unit sold now, they would lose even more money if they dropped the price. Stringer doesn't need to say that because it's obvious, hence "how's that for logic."

where does the "(would)" come from then? Is that just a reporter error?

 

It's the reporter adding a word that s/he thinks will clarify what Stringer is saying, but doing so carelessly and actually making it far more confusing than it would have been if s/he had left it out entirely and just reproduced the quote exactly as Stringer said it.

Xxain said:
dont journalist add things in to make things clearer or to get a better understanding of the meaning...like so?

Correct, however in this case the reporter screwed up because adding the word changed the meaning of the exact quote.  We have two things here, Stringer's direct quote, and the reporter's interpretation, which changes the meaning of that quote. 

I'll go with Stringers exact words over some reporter's interpretation of what it means, considering one is the CEO of Sony and the other is a reporter for Reuters.