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Dodece on 12 December 2008


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bardicverse on 12 December 2008
dolemit3 said:
The hate is strong with this thread. Even CNN decided to join the lynch mob.

 

Just to clarify, CNN quoted another news article for the linked "sinking ship" article. I'd read the article from the source before CNN sponsored it.



Millennium on 12 December 2008

The PS3 isn't overpriced; it's overengineered. It can't be sold profitably (or even at a reasonable loss) at a price people will pay for a game console. The proper reaction when you realize this is going to happen to your console is to scale back its technology until you can sell it for a reasonable price. Sony failed to do this, and that is why it continues to fail.



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bardicverse on 12 December 2008

^^^^ exactly.



colonelstubbs on 12 December 2008

Wow, the PS3 sells a decent amount and everybody jumps on it for not sellng as much as they want it to...what do people want?



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HALOOOOOOOO on 12 December 2008

I never understood that commercial.



Spiteful49 on 12 December 2008

It’s easy to pick on Sony right now. They had a massive layoff. Their earnings are in the toilet. Then the NPD comes out and they are last in console sales. I have seen stock prices drop sharply by far less news then that.



Millennium on 12 December 2008
Spiteful49 said:
It’s easy to pick on Sony right now. They had a massive layoff. Their earnings are in the toilet. Then the NPD comes out and they are last in console sales. I have seen stock prices drop sharply by far less news then that.

I, for one, haven't been saying anything that people haven't been saying since Kaz Hirai first uttered a certain three-digit number that will live in infamy. This is not a recent phenomenon, and although I make no claims to be psychic, this whole situation wasn't that hard to predict.



Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.

Be the ultimate ninja! Play Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN today! Poisson Village welcomes new players.

What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.

outlawauron on 12 December 2008
Millennium said:
The PS3 isn't overpriced; it's overengineered. It can't be sold profitably (or even at a reasonable loss) at a price people will pay for a game console. The proper reaction when you realize this is going to happen to your console is to scale back its technology until you can sell it for a reasonable price. Sony failed to do this, and that is why it continues to fail.

I agree. Sony is charged too much for it, it simply isn't cheap enough to make the price mainstream.



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Groucho on 12 December 2008

Sony is fine. They are handling bad economic issues very well. Business analysts are too slow to keep track of things like tech manufacturing costs at the frantic pace tech moves forward at. These same business sites yammered on about how the blu-ray drive and Cell cost so much in the release PS3, and now they've just "forgotten" that Cell yields are more than order of magnitude better, and blu-ray players (and drives) have gotten dirt cheap.

Quick, someone post a "Sony loses money on every PS3" link from 2006 or 2007!

I'm looking forward to the black in Sony's games division this coming quarter, personally. I'm not looking forward to MS's red, however. Still, increasing marketshare is good in the end, so they will pull through as well.