Yay! Hole-punching time...
Duh... Of course the whole report is the same... They're basically regurgitating stuff from the same meeting!
Uhhh, you mean YOUR history of Sony infighting as it's neither comprehensive, nor accurate...
First of all, Ohga never "ordered" anything about a price launch. Price reductions themselves started when Teisuke Gotoh (chief designer of the Playstation) took apart a Saturn after its launch and analyzed it's construction and realized that Sega could not compete in a price war because he felt that Sega would have too much trouble cutting manufacturing costs of the Saturn. Kutaragi agreed and later went along with the idea after redesigns led to the 3000 model. The actual price cut took place before the US launch.
Secondly the $299 price was largely determined at a marketing and distribution policy meeting well before even the Japanese launch, where Kutaragi, Maruyama, or Tokunaga weren't even present. Tokunaga senior SCEI exec who eventually went along with it (and later consensus with Maruyama and Kutaragi). The **CONTROVERSIAL** aspect was that the consensus was determined by an SCEI group and announced at E3, and not the typical consensus meeting at Sony Headquarters where all the divisions are informed of major price changes before they're publicly announced.
And no, Kutaragi did not almost lose his job over this. Ohga did threaten to fire him (and everybody else) over his argument with Gotoh over the design of the controller (which Kutaragi rejected). Besides, Ohga was on the way out, and Idei on the way in...
OK, WTF? "Sony Headquarter" doesn't develop anything...
Again, WTF? The PS2 has never been below the price of any of Sony's DVD players. Especially in 2001. The least you could've mentioned was 2000 where Sony had fewer low price DVD players...
You seriously need to put down the Crichton novel... Keiretsu are an anachronism of the heydays of MITI), never really existed in a tangible sense. Sony was also never a member of the 6 keiretsu that were presumed to exist around the 6 major financial institutions. Also Sony Electronics and SCEI would be a bad example of a keiretsu relationship. Nor would a keiretsu have competitive entites. That defeats the whole purpose of the vertical and horizontal keiretsu theory...
...There aren't any... (as of yet...)
I think "deduce" is a **gross** overstatement... Try "imagine" or "dream"...
Well, this report is identical to what impress.co.jp reported on that infamous Kutaragi "media processor".
Duh... Of course the whole report is the same... They're basically regurgitating stuff from the same meeting!
The history of infighting within Sony group.
Uhhh, you mean YOUR history of Sony infighting as it's neither comprehensive, nor accurate...
1. Kutaragi Ken launhes PSX in the US for $299 against his boss's order to launch it at $399. He was almost fired but kept his job.
First of all, Ohga never "ordered" anything about a price launch. Price reductions themselves started when Teisuke Gotoh (chief designer of the Playstation) took apart a Saturn after its launch and analyzed it's construction and realized that Sega could not compete in a price war because he felt that Sega would have too much trouble cutting manufacturing costs of the Saturn. Kutaragi agreed and later went along with the idea after redesigns led to the 3000 model. The actual price cut took place before the US launch.
Secondly the $299 price was largely determined at a marketing and distribution policy meeting well before even the Japanese launch, where Kutaragi, Maruyama, or Tokunaga weren't even present. Tokunaga senior SCEI exec who eventually went along with it (and later consensus with Maruyama and Kutaragi). The **CONTROVERSIAL** aspect was that the consensus was determined by an SCEI group and announced at E3, and not the typical consensus meeting at Sony Headquarters where all the divisions are informed of major price changes before they're publicly announced.
And no, Kutaragi did not almost lose his job over this. Ohga did threaten to fire him (and everybody else) over his argument with Gotoh over the design of the controller (which Kutaragi rejected). Besides, Ohga was on the way out, and Idei on the way in...
2. Kutaragi Ken kills the handheld developed by Sony headquarter because he had nothing to do with it.
OK, WTF? "Sony Headquarter" doesn't develop anything...
3. Kutaragi Ken prices PSX2 below the price of Sony headquarter's cheapest DVD player in 2001, thereby halting Sony headquarter's DVD sales.
Again, WTF? The PS2 has never been below the price of any of Sony's DVD players. Especially in 2001. The least you could've mentioned was 2000 where Sony had fewer low price DVD players...
These "units" within Japanese keiretsu are really separate companies who have nothing to do with each other, even competitiors in some case.(as is the case with SCEI and Sony Electronic). Of course the political infighting is the norm.
You seriously need to put down the Crichton novel... Keiretsu are an anachronism of the heydays of MITI), never really existed in a tangible sense. Sony was also never a member of the 6 keiretsu that were presumed to exist around the 6 major financial institutions. Also Sony Electronics and SCEI would be a bad example of a keiretsu relationship. Nor would a keiretsu have competitive entites. That defeats the whole purpose of the vertical and horizontal keiretsu theory...
The problem with this "media processor" is that
...There aren't any... (as of yet...)
From which I can deduce the following.
I think "deduce" is a **gross** overstatement... Try "imagine" or "dream"...