| kowenicki said: Jack Tretton: 1."If you can find a PS3 anywhere in N America thats been on the shelves for more than 15 minutes I'll give you 1200 bucks for it" - this was so wrong it was sad. "If you look at the adoption rate of the DS over the first 17 months, not only does it trail the PSP but it also trails their other platforms ... They're potentially losing some of their core audience and they're not really expanding beyond that." - oh dear. “We are in the first 25 per cent to 30 per cent of this generation. I would say we're sitting in the catbird seat. And if you like what you see right and if you thought last year was the year of the PlayStation, I hope that in 2015 somebody is going to be saying, ‘This is the Year of the PlayStation 3.’ - Jan 2010. - staggering arrogance or stupidity - I'm not sure. |
1. Yes, here he was reallyy dumb. 
2. As an excuse for him, while PSP turned meh with time, it's still the best competitor, as sales results, Nintendo portables ever had, and it started quite well, so he wasn't so wrong to be confident. (This doesn't change my opinion that I found the controls of the first PSP awful and the current ones barely acceptable and I wouldn't ever watch movies on a micro screen, so for me a PSP, particularly the first model, would have been an overpriced multimedia player with games as a badly usable bonus, but 57M people like it, so much the better for them and Sony).
3. Even with a 10yrs plan he's a little bit underestimating how much time of this gen already passed. But hoping 2015 will be the year of PS3 is not excessively confident, actually it could even be read as that PS3 could dominate this gen when Wii has already retired. About last year being PS3 year, well, it is on a lesser scale, simply in the sense that it's the year when Sony finally got most things right or at least acceptable for it. Not as elegant as Nintendo's regal aloofment, but neither Greenberg's arrogance, actually it was very mild PR. This time he was quite heavier, he should leave these things to Kevin Butler, but even his least elegant digs are better than Greenberg's. As an excuse for Greenberg, he most probably follows Ballmer's bombastic examples.
