A problem with PS3's 2 SKUs

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Funny, I thought these were Phil Harrisons comments on the two SKU's.

"Are there two versions of the Xbox 360 that people want to buy? I don't know," he said. "I look at those formats. I think it just confuses the audience. They don't know which one to buy, developers don't know which one to create for, and retailers don't know which one to stock... So I think we wouldn't take that strategy. We wouldn't create confusion."

Its comments like this, the last minute addition of the gyro, and going from 2 HDMI to no HDMI, that really give me the impression that Sony is just making it all up as they go along. They seem to have no clear understanding of their strategy other than 'put a BR drive in it and leverage our cell initiative'. Lucky for them they made the best console developers in the world a lot of money over the last 5 years.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Its comments like this, the last minute addition of the gyro, and going from 2 HDMI to no HDMI, that really give me the impression that Sony is just making it all up as they go along.

That was a wonderfully ironic comment! But I think they all make it up as they go along to a degree. No company is going to make a plan and stick to it religiously for 5 years or however long without considering how the market and competiton etc. are going. At that comment's point in time Phil was playing the marketting game and deriding the opposition's choices, as these execs do. Then in the board room they ignore all the PR twaddle they've been feeding the media and actually make decisions on how to price and deliver the platform, and release this info to the world with a brand new set of shiny new PR one-liners and soundbites. Being able to adapt your strategy is important in the business world. Not saying that Sony have made the right decisions, but not sticking to their previous comments is fair behaviour. There's no relation between the PR spin of execs in interviews and what actually happens, save you can glean from PR talk what their opionions at that point in time are, subject to change.

 

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That was a wonderfully ironic comment! But I think they all make it up as they go along to a degree. No company is going to make a plan and stick to it religiously for 5 years or however long without considering how the market and competiton etc. are going. At that comment's point in time Phil was playing the marketting game and deriding the opposition's choices, as these execs do. Then in the board room they ignore all the PR twaddle they've been feeding the media and actually make decisions on how to price and deliver the platform, and release this info to the world with a brand new set of shiny new PR one-liners and soundbites. Being able to adapt your strategy is important in the business world. Not saying that Sony have made the right decisions, but not sticking to their previous comments is fair behaviour. There's no relation between the PR spin of execs in interviews and what actually happens, save you can glean from PR talk what their opionions at that point in time are, subject to change.

So we agree, cool.

Just seems a little too 'reactive' i mean, uh adaptive, for a company that had over 60% of the market last gen.

You say tomato, I say tomahto
You say 'adapt' i say 'react'
tomato, tomahto
adapt, react
lets call the whole thing off...



Yeah, I crack myself up...