Shifty Geezer said:
Isn't it 'better practice' to suggest a Spring launch, but not give a definite, and keep postponing 'just a little bit longer' so would be buyers saving onto their money KEEP saving onto their money expecting PS3 to be released 'any day now'? Launching early with a crippled system will surely just hurt image and annoy customers expecting the promised BC, whereas stringing them along is just annoying but can be excused more easily. 'We're taking longer to make a better machine'.
Maybe and it would be very much what they would be hoping for were that to be the case, if l-b is correct though and this does happen to be the official Sony plan it would strongly suggest that they feel confidence and their ability to keep people waiting so long after X360's release have been eroded to such an extent that any further announcement of delays would push consumers away. This can be mitigated by multiple shorter delay announcements as opposed to one announcement of several months, but every time it happens a little more confidence and patience will disappear. It really depends on just how close to the edge Sony feel they already are with regards to getting people to postpone next-gen purchases for their launch.
In all likelihood you're entirely correct, I'm simply speaking hypothetically if we take the original information in this thread to be correct.
kyetech said:
*Jon Carefully removes brown nose and gives his face a quick wash*
Riiiiight. Okay, now do a search on my post history and find a single other post of mine praising l-b or brown-nosing.
The simple fact of the matter is that the original post asked for some faith in some otherwise almost entirely unbelievable information, I would simply prefer to put stock in this sort of information if it comes from someone I percieve as reputable than someone who trolls regularly.
I even noted that I don't think l-b is an entirely unbiased source of information, just that he manages to keep that bias in check unlike so many others and as regards the feasability of him being a reliable source just check his reputation (Little green boxes under his name, unlike the large number of people around here with reputation turned off or red boxes).
So, should we stop appreciating certain posters for their consistently good posting purely for the fact that we may be considered to be "brown-nosing"? You can feel free, I'll stick with the tried and tested method of putting more stock into the words of people who have proved their worth in the past.
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And while I'm replying to several people at once...
sytaylor said:
Sorry, didn't you mean "post+1"
