Kaz Hirai Says PS3's Launch Troubles Was Due To Supply Not Price? *Laughs*

[QUOTE="Timstuff"]

[QUOTE="AfterShafter"][QUOTE="Timstuff"]It's true. You couldn't find PS3s anywhere. If Sony hadn't botched up the supply early on then PS3 would have had a much larger initial install base. People were prepared to pay like $1000 on the thing, so if Sony had been able to supply enough to retailers, I'm sure people would have flocked to pay $600 for it. Now though, PS3 sales are in a lull with the hype died down, and the best way to get people's attention now is to keep lowering the price. Sony truly missed their chance to sell lots of PS3s at the highest price possible.XanderZane

Yeah, but who says I have to agree with them? If Sony had shipped a million PS3s before Christmas 06, they would have sold a million PS3s. They had the hype to do it, but they botched up manufacturing and let their own hype machine implode. Before Christmas, you couldn't find a PS3 anywhere. But after christmas, people had moved on to other, more easily availible interests, and PS3's hype had been effectively killed.

What was posted above from the others were FACT. It was even on the news that Ebayers were returning PS3 because they couldn't sell them on EBay for $1000, $800 or even $600. David Reeves (or whatever his name is in the U.K.) did make those comments about paying $1200 for anyone who could find a PS3 in retail stores. I'm sure many picutres were e-mailed to him and I'm sure he didn't pay up.

"If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1200 bucks for it."
- Jack Tretton, Sony Computer Entertainment America president and CEO

You can thank me later sir. ;)

[QUOTE="Timstuff"]

[QUOTE="AfterShafter"][QUOTE="Timstuff"]It's true. You couldn't find PS3s anywhere. If Sony hadn't botched up the supply early on then PS3 would have had a much larger initial install base. People were prepared to pay like $1000 on the thing, so if Sony had been able to supply enough to retailers, I'm sure people would have flocked to pay $600 for it. Now though, PS3 sales are in a lull with the hype died down, and the best way to get people's attention now is to keep lowering the price. Sony truly missed their chance to sell lots of PS3s at the highest price possible.AfterShafter

Yeah, but who says I have to agree with them? If Sony had shipped a million PS3s before Christmas 06, they would have sold a million PS3s. They had the hype to do it, but they botched up manufacturing and let their own hype machine implode. Before Christmas, you couldn't find a PS3 anywhere. But after christmas, people had moved on to other, more easily availible interests, and PS3's hype had been effectively killed.

"all over the place" definetly didn't apply to my city then. there were no PS3's available for a little less than a month. true, the hype died down later on, but in the beggining, the PS3's were being sold out everywhere.

[QUOTE="Eurobacca"]

Couldn't get into Harvard?

AfterShafter

Do you call him Ghoulgate?

Whatever helps you sleep at night KAZ. The PS3 is my favorite,but that was after the bad launch.

lol whut

Whatever helps you sleep at night KAZ. The PS3 is my favorite,but that was after the bad launch.

finalfantasy94

Whoops.....this thread is two years old? Wow....I forgot how distorted people's views were on the PS3 back then.

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

Whatever helps you sleep at night KAZ. The PS3 is my favorite,but that was after the bad launch.

mythrol

He didn't. Someone is bumping old threads and then deleting their posts. I asked the mods to check it out. But I noticed it up here without any current posts, so it wasn't him.

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

Whatever helps you sleep at night KAZ. The PS3 is my favorite,but that was after the bad launch.

mythrol

Dude wth?! I didint bump this crap. I didint even look at the date. IT WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE. Some other dummy bumped it.

[QUOTE="mythrol"][QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

Whatever helps you sleep at night KAZ. The PS3 is my favorite,but that was after the bad launch.

finalfantasy94

Dude wth?! I didint bump this crap. I didint even look at the date. IT WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE. Some other dummy bumped it.

Whatever helps you sleep at night KAZ. The PS3 is my favorite,but that was after the bad launch.

finalfantasy94

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

[QUOTE="mythrol"] You're level 42, you know better than dragging up dead threads. What's the matter with you man? Let it die with dignity. mythrol

Dude wth?! I didint bump this crap. I didint even look at the date. IT WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE. Some other dummy bumped it.

No prob. Inotice theres been some bumping thats like year or 2 old here and there. Theres a mysterious bumper out there. Mods have to hunt he/she down.

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

[QUOTE="mythrol"] You're level 42, you know better than dragging up dead threads. What's the matter with you man? Let it die with dignity. mythrol

Dude wth?! I didint bump this crap. I didint even look at the date. IT WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE. Some other dummy bumped it.

You all dont remember when people were buying PS3's on ebay for THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!!! Wow, you guys... that only happened 3 years ago.

THIS THREAD IS EXACTLY 2 YEARS OLD from 2 days ago!!!!! What was this a time capsule thread or something????

lol

Hmm...even I think thats BS.

:lol:

I know in Australia we had to wait a year after the american release for enough stock, A YEAR!

http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=17624

47% of says he's nuts. If he isnt nuts what is HE?

PSP107

http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=17624

47% of says he's nuts. If he isnt nuts what is HE?

PSP107

Kaz should never handle his own PR again.

:|

This article is from 2007.

"We're in a position where we're having to play catch-up here. The PS3 has been on the market less than a year in the US and Japan and, what is it, less than that in Europe? It's difficult right now to say who's where. Five years from now, ten years from now, you look back and can see what kind of business you've generated. So, clearly we've never started from a position of strength and we've always had to catch up with every generation of hardware that we've brought into the market."

Edit: Ok I guess I was beaten to it.

2007 thread? Really now.

hes right i remember i couldnt find a ps3 the first it came out it was flying off shelves. so many people wanted one but supply couldnt match the demand. it doesnt matter how much they will price the next playstation systems people will buy them. look at the way they priced the psp go, the ps3 launch price taught them something. expect the next playstation to have a higher price people will still buy it but i hope sony learn from their mistake and have more on launch

bu bu buut it was because costs were too high so they couldnt even drop the price and wont be able to for a while......just no....the truth is finally revealed and here it is.TheCoreGamer_

and lol@ "the truth is FINALLY revealed", the article is from 2007!! :lol:

Whatever helps you sleep at night KAZ. The PS3 is my favorite,but that was after the bad launch.

finalfantasy94

Why in would you bump this extremely old thread? Its from 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007

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Now someone lock it.

[QUOTE="TTDog"]

[QUOTE="lowe0"]I'd blame the PS3's launch on a shortage... of people willing to pay $600 for a game machine.killzowned24

Games machine? Or tarted up "Soon To Be Obsolete" next gen disk player?

Obsolete would be 360's dvd and 5.1 audio.

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

Whatever helps you sleep at night KAZ. The PS3 is my favorite,but that was after the bad launch.

SPYDER0416

Why in would you bump this extremely old thread? Its from 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007

2007

2007

Now someone lock it.