bloomberg.com— Think the idea of 200,000 instead of 400,000 on Friday was bad? Bloomberg reports that analysts are predicting that Sony will only ship 200,000 TOTAL by the end of the year.
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lol sony may be suffering, but there is a reason for it... look throughout our technological history, money is not in being first, it is in being second.... take dell and IBM for example IBM spends billions of dollars on R&D to design new and cutting edge products, while dell has never invented a single new or revolutionary technology, but when you look at who makes more money annualy dell comes out on top! this is because it costs infinatly more money to develope new technology as opposed to perfecting older technology. so it would make sense is a company like sony that is doing new never done before things in the world of gaming, would make less money that a company like nintendo that just miniturized the gamecube and gave it new controllers.
incase none of you have noticed EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT EVER PRODUCED HAS LAUNCHED WITH BUGS!!! the companies that produce them have to pick and choose which bugs are 'acceptable' to launch with and which must be fixed before hand. if they can fix it via a downloadable patch they will do it that way... but if it is a hardware issue it MUCT be resolved before the launch. and if you remember in feb when xbox launched it had TONS of bugs, but after about a month or two they had them all worked out and now the 360 is running smooth
"one of the executives said the PS3 would have a 10 year lifespan. Though this have never happened with any console before,"Yes it has, the Atari 2600 was manufactured for 14 years.
nitro187Nov 21, 2006
I believe that is worldwide, rather than just the US.
maxx77Nov 21, 2006
Kettle... pot... I can never tell which is which.
cglassNov 21, 2006
It's not a mystery, sony doesn't intend to make money, they enter markets to do something, but it's never been to make money.
Closed AccountNov 21, 2006
More proof that Sony is a bunch of liars.
endlessfoodNov 21, 2006
lol sony may be suffering, but there is a reason for it... look throughout our technological history, money is not in being first, it is in being second.... take dell and IBM for example IBM spends billions of dollars on R&D to design new and cutting edge products, while dell has never invented a single new or revolutionary technology, but when you look at who makes more money annualy dell comes out on top! this is because it costs infinatly more money to develope new technology as opposed to perfecting older technology. so it would make sense is a company like sony that is doing new never done before things in the world of gaming, would make less money that a company like nintendo that just miniturized the gamecube and gave it new controllers.
endlessfoodNov 21, 2006
incase none of you have noticed EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT EVER PRODUCED HAS LAUNCHED WITH BUGS!!! the companies that produce them have to pick and choose which bugs are 'acceptable' to launch with and which must be fixed before hand. if they can fix it via a downloadable patch they will do it that way... but if it is a hardware issue it MUCT be resolved before the launch. and if you remember in feb when xbox launched it had TONS of bugs, but after about a month or two they had them all worked out and now the 360 is running smooth
brstilsonNov 22, 2006
"one of the executives said the PS3 would have a 10 year lifespan. Though this have never happened with any console before,"Yes it has, the Atari 2600 was manufactured for 14 years.