I'm pointing out the fact that, in reality, if PS wanted another 100M+ sales for PS3 like prior gens, they needed to make sure that the people who buy their platform, or new people who want to enter (who are mostly young and "poor"), need to be able to afford it. Going out of your way to make it hard to get your hands on it, most of the time, will lead to lesser sales.

Just look at the iPhone. If PS3 was aiming to be the high end platform that sold less but made higher margins, then sure, but the fact that PS4 was not a $800 console at launch, tells me that PS wasn't going for that high end position, or changed their minds and decided "more work" was a bad idea (which it is, because the more you are working, the less you can be gaming).

Considering marketshare most certainly matters to a companies future success when it comes to consoles (just look at the weaker gamecube to Wii explosion, then the weaker Wii U to Switch explosion, and the weaker PS3 to PS4 explosion), I would have to assume that everything that led to the high price of the PS3 was a mistake, considering what they've done with the PS4 ecosystem. Allowing the cheaper XB360 to steal away as many existing and potential customers was risky. If PS4 ended up another PS3, PS could have found themselves in the same kind of position NiN has been in for quite some time. This is why I think XB is going the direction they seem to be. XB1 didn't pan out as they expected, so XB is going to try the iPhone route. Have the most expensive hardware, have upgrades more often, and have BC a few gens back. XB becomes Apple, PS becomes Samsung, and NiN is Blackberry.

Kens 'we want you to work for it' was justly taken out of context, because what he said was mostly a fantasy based on the business they are in, and how that sector has always operated. He may have meant what he said, but it wasn't a smart idea in practice.

The one that has lingered the longest that I'm aware of is supposedly Miyamoto somewhat trashing Donkey Kong with the line:

"Donkey Kong proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good."

The weird thing is, there's not really much evidence that he ever said that, with people regularly citing different origins for the quote without providing concrete proof. What seems most likely is that something akin to that was said as Miyamoto described how he was pressured to make Yoshi's Island look more like DKC, and a poorly translated reference is all we've gotten. Regardless, as with many things on the internet, people really only began talking about it in the mid 2000's, and so Miyamoto responded to this supposed quote a few years back:

"The first point that I want to make is that I actually worked very closely with Rare on the original Donkey Kong Country. And apparently recently some rumor got out that I didn't really like that game? I just want to clarify that that's not the case, because I was very involved in that. And even emailing almost daily with Tim Stamper right up until the end."

Stamper, meanwhile, supposedly was very excited to meet with Miyamoto shortly after these comments were said to have been made, and they did many interviews together about the game. Factor in how oddly out of character it was especially considering he put a ton of work into it, and it's probable that some lost-in-translation remark was blown out of proportion and has been pissing people off ever since.

This.

"work more hours" and "get a second job" are for all intents and purposes, the exact same thing. Many people can't go over 40 hours of work per week with their employer. So their only option to "work more hours" is to "get a second job".

Not really a misquote imho.

Well this instance wasn't so much a misquote as it was an irresponsibly-out-of-context snippet of a larger quote. Not sure if there's a word for that... there probably is, I just don't know it.

Romero never that that himself, it came form a marketing guy