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Kutaragi is a great engineer,but a terrible executive.



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That's a great article HappySqurriel.

Sadly, he's doing normal business practice. Have the grunts do all the work and never give them praise...and when something goes wrong, you blame them.



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The whole Wii60 thing was before MS realized that the Wii is going to crush them, he was saying it imagining the Wii60 beating the PS3 lol



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cleveland124 said:

How does admitting a mistake deserve mockery?  The price was too high.  Up into January (First time PS3's were sitting on shelves), everyone said PS3 would win this generation by a landslide.  It's far too early as well.  A $100 price cut could move them back into the competition. 


 Because this is the same Sony who was all to quick to crap all over Nintendo's strategies not too long ago and now they're praising it.

If people are going to call out politicians for "flip-flopping", why not companies? 



"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks

Stringer is a joke Sony needs to get rid of him and fast. Hes got no fight in him, just a wuss covering his ass already.



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Blue3 said:
Stringer is a joke Sony needs to get rid of him and fast. Hes got no fight in him, just a wuss covering his ass already.


So just because he's not acting like a jackass and insulting his other competitors, he doesn't belong with Sony?  What kind of logic is that.  Part of Sony's problems have come from horrible PR.  It's good to see the man show some tact.  Sony needs businessmen right now, not engineers.  



naznatips said:
Blue3 said:
Stringer is a joke Sony needs to get rid of him and fast. Hes got no fight in him, just a wuss covering his ass already.


So just because he's not acting like a jackass and insulting his other competitors, he doesn't belong with Sony? What kind of logic is that. Part of Sony's problems have come from horrible PR. It's good to see the man show some tact. Sony needs businessmen right now, not engineers.


 hes not the pr department if he was worth a damn he would have fired all of them, same with marketing but i dont see him doing that.   he soes haev the power to do so doe she not.

 All i see from his comments is someone just covering his own ass.



He's not covering his own arse, he's laying the boot into someone who he thought was a 'renegade' and who he was probably responsible for sacking.



Blue3 said:
Stringer is a joke Sony needs to get rid of him and fast. Hes got no fight in him, just a wuss covering his ass already.

So he should just sit back and say "Well, only selling 3.5 million consoles isn't so bad."

You're probably just mad because you bought your PS3 for $600, and now its gonna be $450 in october.



Is it too much to assume that Sony somehow, somewhere possibly heard that they had "image" issues as a corporation and this is an attempt to fix that? I don't know, just a theory.

Oh and... Nintendo gets mocked for whatever they do, Sony gets mocked for whatever they, Microsoft gets mocked for whatever they do. don't try and act like this an out of the blue phenomenon, I mean... are you new here or something?

And... What what? PS3 is going to be 450 in October?

ckmlb said:
So when Sony says the Wii is a fad they get mocked, when they say the Wii is good they get mocked...

It's a lose-lose situation it seems for Sony. How things have changed...

Better yet why weren't you the one to report this news? :)