Howard Stringer: NOT a breakthrough.
According to link "Over 100,000 PS3 consoles were sold in the US last week, thanks largely to the introduction of a lower-priced $400 version."
According to Sony CEO Howard Stringer, "It's the breakthrough we've been anticipating. We've been holding our breath."
Ok, Howard. No. This is not a "breakthrough". The PS3 was released one year ago. Since then there have been four versions released with two versions discontinued. The initial PS3 was $599 and the new 40 Gig PS3 (the version people are buying) is $400.
So, after one year, four versions, and practically a $200 price cut people are finally buying your console...in the month before Christmas.
You can delude yourself into thinking this is a "breakthrough", that you have overcome all obstacles. You can ignore the sales numbers for the Wii and Xbox 360. You can ignore the reviews of the PS3 and the lackluster sales of BlueRay disks. You can pretend like today's PS3 is the same as the initial version, now discontinued. You can pretend that last week's sales mean something if you want. That's fine. Your fanboys will embrace those same ideas.
But it doesn't make your idiotic delusions true. And it doesn't mean that your stupid "ladies and gentlemen" commercials are brilliant pieces of marketing art.
It just means that you've lowered the bar and declared yourself victorious.
/grats
9 comments:
You need to be a less mean person. People would pay more attention to you.
That's probably true.
I liked this post.
I'm not saying it's an accurate assessment of the matter. I would be inclined to agree with him, even to listen to him... but that's because Jay is my friend, not because he's a nice person.
I just mention this because my research is telling me that people who don't know flamers personally tend to hate/ignore them... so if J ever wants to go pro with this, he has some act clean-up to do.
Is there a difference between a flamer and a guy who just hates on stuff?
I think the difference is that:
Flamer:
2. A person who deliberately makes inflammitory or slanderous posts on internet message boards for the purpose of starting a flame war.
A flamer posts for the sake of starting a flame war. A person who hates on things isn't necessarily trying to start a flame war. The poster may just hate things.
Flamer? Failed his Scornomancy roll.
All flamers start out by hating on stuff.
I think flamers start out as self-obsessed attention whores.
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