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Sony, Analysts React To PS3 Launch
cdneng2 writes "Sony may be aware that something is just not right. There's a reshuffling of management occurring within Sony. Kazuo Hirai is set to head their videogame unit, as Ken Kutaragi has been bumped to the Sony board. Jack Tretton, former COO for SCEA, is now the president and CEO of that arm of the company. There's no word on the reasoning behind these position shifts. On the same day, Namco announced that they must sell 500,000 games to begin making profit on PS3 games. A Financial Times article confirms speculation on how hard it will be for Sony to make money, as analysts with UBS predict that 30 games must be sold per PS3 for them to break even." To add insult to injury, EA CEO Larry Probst has said PS3 numbers were lower than expected. Current thinking is that Sony managed to ship roughly half of the 400,000 units they were promising.
Shrub has been an unmitigated success in all that he has set out to do except for keep control of the government. He's set up his cronies to make billions of dollars. He's helped drive the price of crude oil through the roof, which benefits both himself and cheney as well (as the price of mideast crude rises, everyone else raises their prices per barrel as well.) He's shat on the constitution over and over again and thus far gotten away with it. Provided he escapes impeachment, they'll be singing songs about him in republican beer halls until hell freezes over.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
yup, really we should be seeing a ton of articles about the 360 being a failure since it actually is. But ah well, this is slashdot and a story posted by Zonk of course.