A quote from Sony's chief financial officer Nobuyuki Oneda on the sales of the ps3:

"Actually, because the number of units sold was not as high as we hoped, the loss was better than our original expectation,"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070726/ennew_afp/entertainmentjapangame

Talk about looking on the bright side of things.

wat was that?

So... They are just putting a positive spin on the fact that they have not sold as many PS3's as they predicted...

Nothing wrong with that....

I think they are saying that they lost less than they thought they would.

definitely not the worst sony quote yet, sorry.

I dunno... Wouldn't not being able to sell consoles already manufactured (aka... Sony has already paid for them) be worse than actually selling them at at least not being totally in the hole? I guess if it was a runaway success and 20 million were already sold, they could claim that it was costing them a lot of money but but then, the mass production of the hardware would probably have cut it enough for them to be making money (and they'd still be selling at $600 because it was actually selling).

Sorry, not the stupidest yet. Actually that quote is not stupid, just funny.

The most stupid one, I think, is the one where they suggested that people should get a second job to buy a PS3. Any contenders?

Yeah, but Nintendo said that too...few people remember Perrin telling Matt C. that perhaps he's not getting paid enough if he can't afford VC games hehe.

It's not a stupid quote, but it is entertaining.  And perhaps it offers a little extra insight into why they're not futher dropping the price of the PS3 now.  An extra $100 would mean they'd need an attach rate of approximately 5 or 6  more games (conservatively) to make up the additional loss.  That's a big attach rate and only represents the amount of INCREASED attach rate.

So Sony probably doesn't want to sell more units at a lower price.  They'd rather bide their time until manufacturing costs come down.

Although that was a bit more humorous hehe.