| snakenobi said: SONY will maintain 20% bump and bigger bumps for the holiday should easily compete with 360 in north america KEN KUTARAGI ftw,bring him back for the PS4 she can rival Steve jobs in tech vision,and business view of kaz hirai,sony can come back |
"She"? Ken Kutaragi's horrible business decisions led to a $2b hole in the PS3 development cycle. In any western company, he would have been fired on the spot. In Japan, he was "promoted to honorary chairman" or something to that extent. He was an excellent hardware visionary and engineer, his business skills turned out to be downright catastrophic for Sony.
PS3 will never compete with the Xbox360 in North America. Too many Xboxes to replace, too much money available in the game for MS to keep ahead of the competition. And let's not forget, once the PS Vita is on the market, PS3 sales in Japan will slump to nearly Xbox360 levels. The Vita is a direct competitor to the PS3 (another reason why the Vita will not appear in the main markets this year - it would simply kill too many PS3 sales). Once the Vita is out everywhere, PS3 sales will rapidly decline. I wonder how they get to 15m sales this fj, I suppose they need another price reduction/very good special deal for coming holidays to achieve that goal.
