Sony: Europeans Don’t Mind PS3 Delays
The PlayStation 3 will launch this November in US and Japan, while Europeans will have to wait to March 2007. Sony’s executive vice president Jamie MacDonald said in an interview with GamesIndsutry.biz that Europeans don’t mind the delay; they’ll still go out and get the console anyway.
“European consumers have shown that historically they don’t mind [the delays], because they end up buying as many PlayStations, if not more, than the US and Japan.
In Europe, it doesn’t seem that the release of our platforms after the US and Japan-in the long run-affects how consumers feel … If we were sitting here in five years’ time, I don’t think we’d really think about or notice that PlayStation 3 was four or five months later in Europe.”
It is not clear at this point whether this is because of pure arrogance, or Sony’s unbelievably bad PR machine once again trying to calm “the analysts” from further bad news (the delays).
Via EuroGamer
October 6th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Its bad enough we have to wait, now they say we LIKE to wait? Well they’ll be waiting till doomsday for my cash!
October 7th, 2006 at 10:30 am
You took the lost in translation picture again on purpose did you, LOL. A picture just as good is the “It prints money” with Satoru Iwata
October 8th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Wii will wait…
October 10th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
the ninboys poost again.
Will they post more in 2 years? likely:P
October 10th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Maybe PS3 will be a big success like PS2 is at the moment or maybe it will flop. PS2 is without a doubt the no.1 home console of the last generation but it wasnt so expensive you have to sell a kidney to afford it.
This week’s Famitsu is really interesting. For those of you who can’t read Japanese IGN has a summary up. They interviewed all of Japan’s top publishers about next gen consoles and which they thought would sell the best. Wii won resoundingly with price being given as the reason for the PS3 being low.
A few weeks ago the top japanese analyst predicted that Wii would outsell PS3 too, perhaps Sony’s mistakes with PS3 will see a new age of the SNES.
I’m concerned about how well the PS3 will sell due to the ridiculous price. Hardcore gamers will buy it sure, but they aren’t what will make or break the console, PS2 was mainstream and i can’t imagine someone who doesn’t play manhy games paying over £400 for a console when two on the market are under £200. As for Blueray, new format which might become betamax and buy all your dvds again to see a difference…. no thanks ill wait til Tesco sells players for £50.
PSP vs DS is the perfect example, PSP is technologically superior and did much better at launch because hardcore gamers flocked to buy it. But now 1 year on DS is outselling it 5/1 in every week’s retail charts and UMD seems to have flopped as a format. Flick thorugh a trade mag like MCV and you’ll see its dark days for PSP
October 14th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
the ps2 was extremely pricey at first as well as I can remember. But can’t really calc back due to inflation and relative goods//income
and I think the ps3 will ofcourse drop in price after a few months, they wont be 100 usd away from xbox I recon.
October 16th, 2006 at 2:00 am
waiting = good
plus why moan about the wait there not doing the idea of the ps2 .. rush it out before all bugs and bad things are fixed
January 8th, 2009 at 9:39 am
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