Oneda: Selling Less PS3’s Is Great News!
- Scribbled on July 29th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Humor, Industry News, Interviews, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
Another Sony executive has made a stunningly odd and confounding quote in Yahoo news. The Chief Financial Officer of Sony Nobuyuki Oneda was quoted as saying:
Actually, because the number of units sold was not as high as we hoped, the loss was better than our original expectation.
Aren’t these the same people who claimed:
We have built up a certain brand equity over time since the launch of PlayStation in 1995 and PS2 in 2000 that the first five million are going to buy [the PlayStation 3], whatever it is, even it didn’t have games.
What are these people thinking? First they claim they’ll sell 5M units without issuing a single game (and apparently tested that theory with their launch), and now they’re saying 3.6M units at this point is actually good news? Imagine the disaster if Sony ended up paying money for each unsold PS3 on the shelf (like Jack Tretton dared a while ago.)
Did they sell less or did they have a shortage? They seem to have taken too many happy pills.
July 29th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
*sigh* while this IS stupid, I HATE reading news stories that talk down about systems/companies… We’re a news site, not a debate site here.
July 29th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
It’s plain funny.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
I am going to have to agree with jonahfalcon on that one.
July 30th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Oh I’m not saying it’s not ridiculous, and stupid of them…