Jack Tretton in an interview with EGM
" I'll give you $1200 if you can find a PS3 in stock "
EGM calls 18 stores 9 of them have PS3's in Stock
Tretton
" That just shows the demand is strong " ( and doesn't pay )
(lmao)(lmao)(lmao)
Some more quotes
" I'll give you $1200 if you can find a PS3 in stock "
EGM calls 18 stores 9 of them have PS3's in Stock
Tretton
" That just shows the demand is strong " ( and doesn't pay )
(lmao)(lmao)(lmao)
Some more quotes
EGM: Well let's talk about that for a second, because, from our unscientific studies, it seemed like about 50% of the people in line were there to make a quick buck on eBay. And now we're seeing a lot more units on shelves.
Sony CEO: Really?
EGM: Yeah
Sony CEO: We've shipped more than 1 million PS3 units to North American consumers in the first 43 days since launch. I am not sitting in the store to know when they got put on the shelves or if the salesperson is giving you accurate information, but if only nine of the 18 stores you contacted had supplies, that seems to be a clear indication that sales continue to be outstanding.
And is people are camping out to buy our machines to sell them on eBay, and successfully sold them at an extremly large profit, I don't think you'd find a company in the world that'd say "Yeah, that is pretty depressing. Not only did people camp out for them, they resold them at a %2500 dollar profit overnight-Yeah I'm pretty disappointed with our launch". It's hard fpr me to see the glass as half empty in that.
EGM: But Why is the general vibe surrounding your launch so negative this time around? Regular gamers seem disappointed. Time Magazine even called it one of the biggest busts of 2006
Sony CEO:Time Magazine... I did an interview with Time Magazine- the guy did his first interview ever on the games industry, touched his first machine two days before that so I would argue that Time magazine may not be as plugged -in to the consumer or the gamer as your magazine is.
All I can talk to is the people that we've attempted to, and we've attempted to sell Playstation 3s to a million people, and they've bought'em as quickly as we can get them out to them.
EGM: Out of all the things you just listef, only Blu-Ray and free online are your real advantages. You can do all those other things on XBOX 360... for $200 less.
Sony CEO:Good Point, but let me give you one differntiating factor: the Playstation Brand. What does Playstation mean? Playstation means you could have bought a Playstation back in 1995, and it had software support and was selling tremendously through 2005, and it'd still be selling today, but we stopped manufacturing the hardware. And then PS2 came out, and that sold 110 million units, and it's still the best-selling console seven holiday seasons later in 2007, and that had backward compatability with the original Playstation.
Let's say I went out and bought a competing system. How many of those machines lasted 5 years? None of them. So I may incremental investment if those other features I just talked about are not unique to the PS3, but if I invest in a PS3, it's a brand that has staying power and has proved itself. Until we let the consumer down, that's going to be a huge advantage for us. Hopefully we never will.
EGM: A while back we learned that Sony was looking into copying Xbox 360's achievement system, calling them "entitlements." Are you familiar with that?
JT: To be honest with you, I'm not familiar with that discussion.
EGM: What happened to your previously announced plans of having games run on two side-by-side widescreen HDTVs? It seems kind of impractical, but you guys brought it up.
JT: To be honest with you, I don't know the answer to that one. I don't recall the statement...
EGM: MotorStorm looks great, but it doesn't really look anything like the original video that you showed a couple of years ago to represent the gameplay. What is the purpose of misleading the public like that? Aren't you setting consumers up for disappointment later?
JT: Well, I guess that's a matter of opinion. I feel it looks identical and actually personally commented that it delivers on the promise of what we showed two years earlier. Also, that was a prelook at a press conference. It wasn't shown to consumers; we didn't market that footage. We showed what the machine could do, and I think MotorStorm does and will deliver on that promise. The consumer will be the ultimate judge, and that's who we're beholden to.
