GribbleGrunger said:
Instead of automatically assuming Sony have done something wrong, ask yoursef if what they've done could be right. Think like a business. Think Christmas shopping. Think three products. You have a stall and on that stall you have three different types of fruit: Apples, Oranges and Pears. You're doing extremely well with the Apples because they're more or less selling themselves, but because people are buying the Apples your stock of Oranges and Pears are not selling as well as you wanted. You know customers will come back to your stall on a regular bases, so what do you do? Hide the Apples. Not only do your Pears and Oranges start to sell better but the customers taste for Apples grows stronger. Now you can rotate your stock of fruit in line with your designated yields. |
That only really works if the sell of Apples is based on people liking them "more" rather than people ONLY liking them. If people only come to your stall because of apples and the pears and oranges are selling less because people don't like them, then allowing your apples to run out is going to drive sales of them all down.
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