.P Harrison: Third parties can only reach 40% of Wii owners.

[Bodhesatva]

naznatips said:

Bodhesatva said:

Regardless, this isn't a bad statement, guys. As far as I can tell, it isn't even PR: it's a direct statement from a Sony Exec to an Exec at a major third party.

Sony Exec tries to convince third parties that development on rival platforms may not return investments and/or produce worthy profit margins? Shocking I say!

The fact that the statement was made as a business move hardly disqualifies it as being a bad statemtent. If he said Shigeru Miyamoto was the devil to the EA exec right after that would that be a good statement, just because it was said under a business circumstance? I'm not saying the statement is unexpected. Just saying that it's still subject to criticism.

It's not bad, it's just incorrect. It is in fact a very good statement, because good in this context is "something that convinces third parties to develop for his platform." In said discussion, good does not mean "the truth."