Sony Computer Entertainment America's CEO blames society for PS3's problems

[QUOTE="Taiko88"][QUOTE="TM1"]Wow Sony should just man up and admit they made a mistake with the PS3. I guarantee you i can find a PS3 with two hours if i drove out tomorrow morning and go to different electronic retailers.DXGreat1_HGL

What's funny is last generation EGM was so far up Sony's butt they knew what the daily Sony cafeteria lunch specials were. Di anyone remember the post E3 when EGM spent hours talking about the PSP and forgot to mention the DS?

For the 100th time, EGM is a bandwagon rag, they love the company that is in 1st and all other competition can never do anything right.....

Well considering this is in a magazine I'ma have to say this interview is pretty old and before christmas PS3s were hard to find.InfamousC

Wow, what a *****. The launch day of the Ps3, Best Buy had 9 left over, they only recieved 12... And a week after launch I camped out for a Wii, they had a sign on the front of the door saying "We only have 3 Nintendo Wii's.
We have 26 Ps3's." I laughed so hard when I saw that.
black_chewbacca

I have a hard time believing this.

[QUOTE="Blinblingthing"][QUOTE="Taiko88"][QUOTE="Blinblingthing"]

[QUOTE="johnusabeis"]i wish i could take this bozo up on that bet. i can run up too the best buy and target down the street and show him 6 ps3 just sitting there. The_Game21x

So, Best Buy and Target in your Area would give a accurate picture os ps3 supply????

Best buy    sold out

Target sold out

You know how often I see sold out online???? That doesn't indicate to me they are just sitting idly in stores.

Do you think they ship the PS3's to you from the stores themselves or something? :?

Nope. I just saying, Its odd they'd sell out online, but just sit in stores :D

All quotes are from this month's EGM that I just got today in an interwith with Jack Tretton, Sony CEA CEO and President.

Note: EGM questions are paraphrased, Tretton's responses word for word (except stuff in parenthesis)

Question 1

EGM: PS3's launch has had the most negativity of any launch surrounding it, what happened?

Tretton: The problem we have . . . it's society in general. (then talks about how everyone wants them to fail but the PS3 was the most successful launch Sony ever had )

Question 2

EGM: Say they've done checking around and PS3s are sitting on store shelves.

Tretton: Really? If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes I'll give you $1,200. (Then talks about how he can call any retailer and confirm that there are no PS3s on shelves anywhere in NA).

EGM: We just called 18 random locations (Best Buy, EB Games) and half of them had PS3s in stock - some as many as 20 units.

Tretton: We've shipped more than 1 million units to North America... (goes on to imply that retailers are probably lying on the phone about their inventory and backtracks and says that if only 9 out of 18 have PS3s then the glass is half full )

Question 3

EGM: What went wrong with the UMD format on the PSP?

Tretton: The mistake we made with UMD as a movie format was assuming the movie studios understood our consumers and their tastes . . . that they knew what they were doing.

Ok, that's enough. Everyone should pick up a copy of this month's EGM - this Sony guy comes off as the typical Sony arrogant ass.gamerfan11

[QUOTE="black_chewbacca"]Wow, what a *****. The launch day of the Ps3, Best Buy had 9 left over, they only recieved 12... And a week after launch I camped out for a Wii, they had a sign on the front of the door saying "We only have 3 Nintendo Wii's.
We have 26 Ps3's." I laughed so hard when I saw that.
InfamousC

I have a hard time believing this.

Me too, I thought PS3's were sold out everywhere on launch day and it took until mid mid december for them to be available in large numbers at least thats how it was here

[QUOTE="The_Game21x"][QUOTE="Blinblingthing"][QUOTE="Taiko88"][QUOTE="Blinblingthing"]

[QUOTE="johnusabeis"]i wish i could take this bozo up on that bet. i can run up too the best buy and target down the street and show him 6 ps3 just sitting there. Blinblingthing

So, Best Buy and Target in your Area would give a accurate picture os ps3 supply????

Best buy    sold out

Target sold out

You know how often I see sold out online???? That doesn't indicate to me they are just sitting idly in stores.

Do you think they ship the PS3's to you from the stores themselves or something? :?

Nope. I just saying, Its odd they'd sell out online, but just sit in stores :D

Well that's because they are shipping PS3's to stores instead of holding them in their warehouses because more people do their shopping in retail stores instead of online.

Yeah, I don't understand that "if you can find a PS3 in stock...." comment.  Dude, there are two at my local Wal-Mart.

I almost wish the interviewer had taken him up on that.  "Okay, car's out front.  Follow me."

I just decided to send this e-mail to Sony....:)  I know I won't even get a response,  but I figured it'd be fun regardless.

the e-mails subject line is "Jack Tretton owes me $1,200."


When one of your idiotic PR tools goes and makes a comment such as "If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes I'll give you $1,200",  I expect him to pay up now.  In fact,  seeing how several stores have numerous PS3's in stock (and they've been in stock for days),  I'll be waiting on my check from that Jack. 

Word of advice, Sony.  Tell your tools to keep their mouths shut.  As a company,  Sony has proven countless times that they don't care one bit about what the consumer wants.  Instead,  we have to listen to these puppets babble on and on about how the PS3 is something you should want to work two jobs for.  I won't buy a PS3 now and I will never buy a PS3 just because of Sony's arrogance.

I'll be expecting an e-mail back from Tretton himself as in regards where to send my check.


Nedemis

Another thing - blaming society is such self-ownage.  What a tool.  "I blame society."

Sony LOVED society when they were on top last-gen.  The people aren't any different.  They just dropped the ball.

For anyone convienced EGM is a "bandwagon" magazine then I'd beg to differ. In last month's issue of the most wanted games this year "2008, best issue ever" they covered alot of Sony and multi-plat games. They did not seem to favor anyone, and gave MGS 4 a 2 page spread I believe. They only deliever more on what the fans need to know about, post E3 the fans wanted of the PSP and Sony wanted to know what the status on the system was. Also the DS didn't have the best showing, but that's okay cause they do their talking in the market, something Sony seems to forget these days.

All I'm saying is EGM goes to great lengths to be unbias. They gave MGS Portable Ops or whatever its called Game Of The Month last issue.

Exploding laptop batteries for example
user_nat

p>Remember the ol "our system can do 4d, the competitor cannot."Looks like the competitor is kicking their teeth in.

fixer293

I do agree though that part of Sony's failure is that many people do want Sony to fail nowadays, specifically in America.  And it doesn't help that the media finds every little negative to put on PS3 even when there is good news.  Jack Tretton is an idiot though.  They are riding too much on brand loyalty.ticalmc2k2

UMD's failed because of the movie studios? try weak sales.Ontain

[QUOTE="ticalmc2k2"]I do agree though that part of Sony's failure is that many people do want Sony to fail nowadays, specifically in America. And it doesn't help that the media finds every little negative to put on PS3 even when there is good news. Jack Tretton is an idiot though. They are riding too much on brand loyalty.jvonrader

Sony is obviously getting raped by the competion and like a sore loser they don't want to admit they screwed up.JohnWinger

what else can you expect from sony? they blame everything on everyone except themselves.brainiac24

It's not Sony! It's insane xfans that want MS to win because they're perceived as an American company vs a Japanese company. It's gotten out of hand and is tatally obserd behavior.

[QUOTE="HeedleGlavin"]So, who were the 100 Million people who bought the PS2, if not "society"? :| Sony PR is worthless.brainiac24

All quotes are from this month's EGM that I just got today in an interwith with Jack Tretton, Sony CEA CEO and President.

Note: EGM questions are paraphrased, Tretton's responses word for word (except stuff in parenthesis)

Question 1

EGM: PS3's launch has had the most negativity of any launch surrounding it, what happened?

Tretton: The problem we have . . . it's society in general. (then talks about how everyone wants them to fail but the PS3 was the most successful launch Sony ever had )

Question 2

EGM: Say they've done checking around and PS3s are sitting on store shelves.

Tretton: Really? If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes I'll give you $1,200. (Then talks about how he can call any retailer and confirm that there are no PS3s on shelves anywhere in NA).

EGM: We just called 18 random locations (Best Buy, EB Games) and half of them had PS3s in stock - some as many as 20 units.

Tretton: We've shipped more than 1 million units to North America... (goes on to imply that retailers are probably lying on the phone about their inventory and backtracks and says that if only 9 out of 18 have PS3s then the glass is half full )

Question 3

EGM: What went wrong with the UMD format on the PSP?

Tretton: The mistake we made with UMD as a movie format was assuming the movie studios understood our consumers and their tastes . . . that they knew what they were doing.

Ok, that's enough. Everyone should pick up a copy of this month's EGM - this Sony guy comes off as the typical Sony arrogant ass.gamerfan11

i only have one thing to say to him: :lol:

So he blames movie studios, stores, and even society for his companies screw ups?

yep, that's sony for ya. :)

what else can you expect from sony? they blame everything on everyone except themselves.brainiac24

[QUOTE="Labinoti"]

Well like the last guy that stood up for Sony CEO i gotta do the same. It kinda is society's fault. A lot of people have dissed the ps3 for being high priced, not like 360, well i never had a problem with ps2 or ps1 and i think a lot of people make stuff up just to diss ps3 especially people in these forums. So what if ps3 is priced 100 dollars more than 360 or they could've taken a lot of features off and price like the wii but that wouldn't be sony. Sony always makes the best products whatever it is

user_nat

That is a great value to the Terrorists in Iraq! It has The capbility to plan attacks, and doubles as an IED.

All quotes are from this month's EGM that I just got today in an interwith with Jack Tretton, Sony CEA CEO and President.

Note: EGM questions are paraphrased, Tretton's responses word for word (except stuff in parenthesis)

Question 1

EGM: PS3's launch has had the most negativity of any launch surrounding it, what happened?

Tretton: The problem we have . . . it's society in general. (then talks about how everyone wants them to fail but the PS3 was the most successful launch Sony ever had )

Question 2

EGM: Say they've done checking around and PS3s are sitting on store shelves.

Tretton: Really? If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes I'll give you $1,200. (Then talks about how he can call any retailer and confirm that there are no PS3s on shelves anywhere in NA).

EGM: We just called 18 random locations (Best Buy, EB Games) and half of them had PS3s in stock - some as many as 20 units.

Tretton: We've shipped more than 1 million units to North America... (goes on to imply that retailers are probably lying on the phone about their inventory and backtracks and says that if only 9 out of 18 have PS3s then the glass is half full )

Question 3

EGM: What went wrong with the UMD format on the PSP?

Tretton: The mistake we made with UMD as a movie format was assuming the movie studios understood our consumers and their tastes . . . that they knew what they were doing.

Ok, that's enough. Everyone should pick up a copy of this month's EGM - this Sony guy comes off as the typical Sony arrogant ass.gamerfan11

That was friggin hilarious. What a moron that guy is. He actually called the EGM & Retail guys liars. I wonder if he paided them $1200. I would have asked for the money. He's worse them Dave Reeve with those comments. The UMD format failed because no one wanted to watch movies on a handheld game system. I could understand downloading trailers and short clips, but who wants to watch a full movie on such small screen? The format is slow as a snail. UMD failed. Blu-Ray is failing. What's next?

What a lame-o...and a lame thread, while I'm at it. Where are the rest of his responses? I get the feeling you're misrepresenting the parts in parentheses...sorry if you aren't, but that's how it looks.
fartgorilla