Sony's Arrogance?

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ckmlb said:

HappySqurriel said:

People call Sony arrogant more for how they treat their customers than what they promise ...

Both the PSP and PS3 are examples of a company which believes that their customers will pay any price for any product that has the word "Playstation" written on it; I could be alone, but I believe that both the PSP and PS3 represent a departure from the strategy which made the Playstation and PS2 successful.

This is not true, the products are expensive because of the stuff under the hood not because Sony is raising the price artificially to milk the customers...

The decision to have that much under the hood you can question but don't tell me they are working their customers when they are losing money on every single PS3 sold...

You're both partly right. Sony thought they could charge that much for a console because it is the Playstation 3 afterall, the predecessor to one of the most successful consoles ever (THE I believe). Since they believed they could charge so much, that's why they felt justified putting all the power and things like Blue-Ray and asking people to pay for it.

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And yeah, everybody shows arrogance (I still remember believing my Nintendo Power that CD's were not the way to go) but Sony was pretty obnoxious about it this time around.