Sony Does it again... Three Weeks Running (In Japan)

[Bladeneo]

Zucas said:

Bladeneo said:

In all fairness, Sony placing excess amount of money into the PS3 can hardly be considered a desperate measure. Like PS-She said, its an investment, or building on the already existing investment.

Would Sony have liked to avoid doing so? Of course, but their sales weren't TERRIBLE by any means, lower than the competition but thats what you have to expect with the troubles of coming a year after the 360.

Besides, if youre going to call that a desperate move by sony, then theoretically Microsoft giving everyone 3 year warranty could be construed as desperate, but they were hardly in a bad situation at the time...

 

EDIT: Post didnt make sense, does now.

By your logic everyone should be floating there own stocks. I don't see Nintendo floating stocks right now. I don't see MS floating stocks right now. I don't see Apple floating stocks right now with their dominance in the MP3 player market.

Now your MS desperate move wasn't really a good example. I think a better example would have been to state their early release in 2005 and there channel stuffing in late 2006. Those would be considered desperate moves on there part.

Nintendo hasn't really made any deseperate moves as of late. Such with the Wii and DS there would be no point to. Why risk it with no reason. But wiht the GC they needed to make desperate moves, something they just didn't do. Probalby why they lost as harshly as they did.

 My Microsoft example was perfect; they lost $1 billion by doing what they did, thats alot of money to throw away. Where does my logic suggest everyone should be floating 'there' own stocks? I said that Sony would rather have avoided doing so, but they did it because they saw it was the right time to do so, and it worked. I don't think for one minute Sony sat there and thought "It's now or never", they saw a chance to increase sales and they did just that. 

 I don't even know why youre talking about nintendo making desperate moves, I've not mentioned them once.