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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.
PS3s are snapped up the second they hit stores shelves, eBay prices continue to very high for the system, gamers are raving about these epic 40 player lagfree free online Resistance matches, going nuts over the Motorstorm demo, the reviews of the PS3's BluRay features and playback are absolutely gushing and calling it the best player on the market, none of the massive hardware failures people were claiming would plague the system like the 360 have come to pass.
And Zonk continues his one man crusade against the PS3. What exactly is the point? Because whatever it is it clearly isn't working.
I have PS3 for sale. Please contact me at sales@ps3forxmas.com if interested. Bye bye karma...