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.

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[alcmaeon]

Sony releases new PlayStation model and people stand in lines for a week or so to buy it and it sells out in 10 minutes; the machine plays cutting edge games AND BlueRay movies; sony has lots of game exclusives; and Sony produces lots of movies, so we concluded that it is doomed. Right. Makes sense to me.

I don't even like sony and I think they are going to spank butt. I'm predicting that Sony will take most of the market, that Nintendo will double it's marketshare, and the Xbox will shrink its marketshare drastically. Check me in three years and see if I am right.

the Xbox 360 has been out a year and still no Halo 3. The graphics are great, but there are no compelling games and the backwards compatilibty is a kludge as is the HD-DVD compatibility. Now, right before Christmas, the 360 is selling for $100.00 many places. If it is doing well, the price would stay high until after the first of the year.

Sony should have shipped PS3 w Rootkit

[WillAffleckUW]

I think the main problem was that Sony failed to ship more than just a DRM-enhanced Sony PS3, they forgot to add that sweetener of the month, the Sony Rootkit, and set it to infect any device it came in contact with.

Without the rootkit, all anyone wanted to buy the PS3 for was to turn it into a Sony-subsidized Linux graphics server.