Sony: Europeans Don’t Mind PS3 Delays

October 6th, 2006 Posted in Business by Darren Stevens


ps3.jpgThe 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

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