Hardcore "beleive" Nintendo will lose. We laugh

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LordTheNightKnight said:

Asriel said:

The 'hardcore' need to wake up and see the Slim for what it is. It's Sony's most desperate move yet. It isn't the machine designed to turn the console war upside down and dethrone the Wii-it's the machine designed to give Sony a fighting chance at second place this generation, and to actually become relevant to the mass market Nintendo has been capturing.

 

Actually it's a way to make a lower cost system so that they finally start making money off it.

Can't it be both?

If these Chinese parts we have been hearing about hold up, then this was a great move. If the failure rate of the PS3 skyrockets and that gets a lot of coverage in the mainstream press, the damage to the Sony brand name could be irrepairable; Sony charges premium prices for many of its electronics products, and can only continue to so long as people trust the name.

 

(Sony dodged a real bullet in this regard four years ago when the OEM laptop manufacturers forced Sony to recall hundreds of millions of laptop batteries; there were so many people in the press and internet forums who were misinformed as to who was to blame that most of the GP never realized it was all Sony's fault, and never noticed that the OEM maunfacturers willingly took the PR and monetary hit to protect their customers while Sony denied the issue existed for as long as possible)