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Sony's Italy Boss Calls It Quits

kotaku.com — Long-serving SCE Italy boss Corrado Buonanno has resigned. And, according to Sony, it's got nothing to do with the announced job cuts. Nothing at all. It's just due to "normal business".

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  • kavery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7We all liked '300', but much like 'I'm Rick James, bitch!', it's been put out to pasture.
  • Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13May want to look your "facts" up before you regurgitate them. The PS3 isn't doing as poorly as most on Digg seem to think - it's doing much worse than Sony wanted, to be certain, but it isn't dead, and it isn't a massive disaster.
  • aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=231 Was officially the last 300 joke, you are three days too late. Thanks for playing.
  • Blakovitch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Info about job cuts here:

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aLRAqL7BV8gA&refer=japan
  • Ryzir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Actually all Sony's HDD & Flash players support mp3. The newest ones even support AAC.
  • baldycraig, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Did anyone else think of the mafia when they saw the title?
  • mpkauto, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Unfortunately for Sony, they always insist on forcing their consumers to deal with their annoying proprietary formats in their products. I would have bought their hard disk based music player if it played mp3s, but Sony as usual insisted on making it only play ATRAC files. And there is no way in hell I would convert my whole library. Ever.
  • Lordpenguin007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The therapist bailed on him in his midlife crisis...
  • giruzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1In Italy he had big trouble when a German chain started to sell PS3 one day in advance to the European launch in their Mediaworld and Saturn shops.

    What happened is that there were crowds of journalist in each shop...waiting to see the new PS3 and the customers ...but this didn't happen (not many customers wanted to pay that much for a PS3)...plusa lot of bad press regarding the fact that this event screwed all the other special events (including midnight opening)...so...Italians had the chance of buying a PS3 before everyone else..and Sony events' were screwed by this...

    I guess he had heaps of 'incentives' to quit..
  • nshah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's nothing personal it's just business
  • bangbangblah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3GOW 2 wasn't able to fit HD content on the PAL version because it had to compensate for so many languages in Europe.
  • MouseCircus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@djsyndrome
    Are you implying that wageslaven is a Wii60 fanboy? I don't know if you've read his comments, but from what I've seen, he dislikes Nintendo as much as Sony.

    All of his comments are nonsense. Nothing more than bad opinion pieces, bashing and the usual ranting. I think it's best to ignore him.
  • nooreazy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Im guessing the "some parts that went bad in the Europe launch" includes italy LOL
  • Doomy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Well, it was either quit or get a pair of concrete boots and swim with the fishes.

    Capiche?
  • radiofrequency, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Oh my god, the world's stop turning. Sony is laying off 160 people in Europe. Never mind that it has 150,000 fulltime employees worldwide - it looks like xbox 360 has finally won!

    http://ce.seekingalpha.com/article/32642
  • Ajajadude, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Gee, is that anything like Apple making the computer music library life difficult with their format in iTunes?
  • TDR25, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Damn, with everyone quitting or being fired, who's left?!
  • PresidentGas, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2What's with all the buried comments? I bet you can't bury this one as much as the others. I dare you.
    for extra annoyance I'll put a link to one of my submitted articles/song

    http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
  • djSyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Wageslaven, you speak as if Nintendo and Microsoft aren't shafting the PAL territories. Oh wait, they are.
  • djSyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4"This is quitting"
  • DICKENS, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0WHAT? OKAAY!
  • saggygrandma, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2that was gay
  • Lordpenguin007, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4SONY GO DIE DIE!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
  • Nudar, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3This is SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • wageslaven, on 10/12/2007, -17/+6Rats fleeing the sinking ship? EUs release was such a failure, with sony bleeding jobs in the EU, that can't be good for PS3 -- will PAL games continue to get shafted like GoW II and the HD content shaft?

    Heads gotta roll to save face-- somebody has to pay for such a massive disaster as the PS3 in EU.

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