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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
Release low enough numbers of something, and it's bound to sell out
eBay prices continue to very high for the system
Directly related to your first point - when you're 10,000 miles away from meeting demand, there's going to be a premium
gamers are raving about these epic 40 player lagfree free online Resistance matches
I'm surprised they can even find 40 plays to play with. But, let's see if there's any lag after Sony ships 10 million consoles.
going nuts over the Motorstorm demo
So, for a gamer, the compelling reasons for a gamer to buy a PS3 right now are one game, and a demo?
the reviews of the PS3's BluRay features and playback are absolutely gushing and calling it the best player on the market
Great, so at least I can buy some Blu-Ray movies at twice the cost of an HD-DVD movie and watch it on my PS3 when I've finished playing the one game worth playing, and the demo for an unreleased game.
none of the massive hardware failures people were claiming would plague the system like the 360 have come to pass.
Well, that's good news, though I think it's too early to be claiming there are no massive hardware failures. How long before the optical drives start to fail, in typical Sony fashion?