I always wondered why Sony offerd a bigger Hard Drive Combo, when you can upgrade the hard Drive your self...

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NPD Figures Bring Out the PS3 Hate

The Washington Times didn't take the news of Sony's poor Playstation sales well. They're calling the sales fumble internal sabotage, and they're hopping mad about it.

Sure the Playstation 3 didn't do so well last month, selling 378,000 console sales in November, down from 466,000 last November. And the PS2 also saw a drop in sales, with the company moving less than half what they did last year.

But sabotage?

"XBox 360 has made serious inroads by dropping the price of its core system to $199. So how did Sony respond?

By releasing a new version of the PS3 ... that's $100 more expensive. Yes, it comes with a game, and yes, it has more hard-drive space, to which I respond: Who cares? Was the marketplace clamoring for more memory from the PS3? Is that why its market penetration is so low compared to its predecessors and competition? What were the Sony execs thinking?"

Times' Sonny Bunch goes on to talk about the PS3's lack of Netflix support, what he calls Sony's poor marketing of Blu-ray, his point seems to be that "Sony seems bound and determined to do everything in its power to hinder the market penetration of the system in particular and Blu-ray in general."

The column begs the question, is the Playstation 3 destined to be the Gamecube of this generation of consoles? Maybe there is some truth to the old adage that you can't really have three successful consoles on the market.

Sabotaging the Sony Playstation 3 market?

The business world is merciless. That's the way it is, nothing will change it.

Piling on always happens when bad news is released about a company, and with console manufacturers there are so many interested parties that the "Hate" always spikes to fairly high levels.

reading some of them is just sad "Sony's poor marketing on Blu-Ray"???? Are you kidding me? Go check out how Dark Knight on Blu-Ray is selling first.


again, this is Time's view on Console, the company that picked 3D0 as "Product of the Year"... they have no right to talk about pricing in console market... how much was 3D0 selling at the time? ;)

wow i didnt know it was doing that bad

It's the Washington Times, not Time Magazine.

oooh, just the Washington Time... geez, for a second, I actually cared what they had to say. :P

I definitely have to question many of Sony's decisions. It's like they're slipping on banana peels or something.

I have to agree with this article more than not.

When was the last time you saw an advertisement for Blu-Ray by itself? Of course you see an advertisement for a movie and at the end it may say also comes in blu-ray. But what I mean is when did you see an add just for blu-ray or a stand alone player? I can't remember the last time I saw one.

Yes a lot of people do know what blu-ray is but there are millions out there who have no idea. Take my dad for instance, he has an HDTV and pays extra for HD channels. But he had no idea what Blu-ray was until he came over to my house for thanksgiving and I was watching a Blu-ray movie. Would he be a potential customer? I would imagine yes. There are tons of these type people out there and Sony does nothing to lure them in. (IMO) Better marketing for Blu-Ray and the PS3 is needed in general. And until this happens Sony has no chance of getting Blu-Ray or the PS3 into the mainstream.

Lol, I doubt the PS3 will ever shake that Cube comparison off.