Sony, Analysts React To PS3 Launch 247
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.
Alas... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Let's Googlewhack! (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, they'd lose more money than M$ lost on the first XBox, and would almost certainly never turn a profit, and it might even be serious enough to damage Sony the company as a whole... but 10 years down the road, people wouldnt be looking back saying "PS3? Man. that was a mistake."
Of course... that wont happen, so you're probably right. But in my dreams, I own a 200 dollar PS3.
Re:Let's Googlewhack! (Score:3, Funny)
I'm also tempted to link the relevant VG Cats strip, but it's just too obvious.
Re:30 Games (Score:5, Funny)
Master,
Your Flying Wheel Of Reasonable Discourse Technique... is Astonishing.
Hai!
Re:Let's Googlewhack! (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but they'll make it up on volume!
Oh, wait...
Re:Let's Googlewhack! (Score:3, Funny)
What? After all the good decisions they made over the past year? I think they could be that stupid, or to say it 'politically correctly' They are "over-confident".