twintail said:
EricHiggin said:
It's a really odd quote though. It's backwards from what you think PS would want. The more you have to work, the less time to have to play games. Creating a system that forces people to work more to get it, doesn't make much sense. It's like assuming it's that easy to just put in overtime whenever a new PS console is on deck, then slack off work big time, because your focused on gaming for the next 5-8 years. Doesn't work like that for most people. Hence the "get a second job" misquote, because truthfully, that was more so the reality of the situation. Especially during that economic downturn/collapse time frame.
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Not really. You have normal work hours. You work extra hours to buy a PS3. Then go back to normal hours.
its incredibly straightforward to understand without you having to throw in some random 'ppl work more but less time for games, then ppl can slack off and no work`.
How you got that from the quote is beyond me. And besides, the idea was to create that feeling of desire. Not for ppl to actually do that.
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Wanting people to work more to get the console so they feel like it's a worthwhile reward has some logic to it, but assuming people can make that extra money, or are willing to, is another thing. Mind you, when PS3 was getting ready to launch, the worldwide economy was booming before the collapse that happended not much later.
There are some jobs where putting in some OT whenever you want is doable, but many do not. What I find most of the time, is it's either all in, or all out, with the availability of some minor OT here and there as a bonus. For most people at that time, some minor OT would mean having to wait years and years before having saved enough for a PS3, and people do not like to wait.
At the time of the PS3, in my group of friends and acquaintances, a few of us were working like mad men, do to our jobs and the companies were worked for, and we had lots of money to buy a PS3, but very very little time to utilize it. The rest of them, weren't working much, do to their jobs and companies, and didn't have the money to buy a PS3 (not for a long time into the gen anyway) in which case, many of them just said screw it and stuck with PS2, or jumped into the 360 ecosystem. The sad thing about this situation, is the people like me, were quite casual when it came to gaming, yet I could jump into next gen no problem, yet my friends that lived for gaming, were stuck in last gen for a long time, watching my PS3 sit around and collect dust. That makes no sense. This is another reason why the PS4 took off like it did, because everyone could get into next gen early on due to the affordability of the console.
What Ken said makes sense if you assume the world is perfect and everything always goes up, when in reality, the world is like the weather and the stock market. Sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down. Not taking that into account is what led to "get a second job". People twisted what Ken said because what he said, whether it was all his idea or a general consensus amoung PS, wasn't based strongly on reality, but a slight fantasy that things were always going to get better and that PS could do what they want and get away with it because they were so great. It didn't work out for them like how it didn't work out for Hillary. When people get to full of themselves, the world has a way of bringing them back down to earth, and most of the time, it's for the good of everyone.