X-bit labs

Started by: b | Date 09/21/07

Comments: 8 | Last Comment:  09/24/07

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1. they need a lot more games.

they have this nice start for the '08 lineup but where are the announcements for the other games after all the sequels to the popular franchises drop? they need to announce more games already and start showing us what the system will be doing in a year or two. they talk of this large target for sales but the audience wants more games.. imo.

we already know mgs4 is coming (and will be exclusive at least for a while) and ffxiii and gt5.. but we've known about those games forever. why they aren't announcing even more games beyond those titles is really confusing me. a lot of people i know are restless and looking at 360's even tho deep down they want to be sony adopters.

I agree they need more games. But more importantly they need big exclusive franchises or epic games. They are lucky their worldwide studio is so strong and can constantly generate more games, but it is important for them to maintain a very close relationship with Square Enix, Konami, and Level 5 to help battle the emerging Microsoft alliance of studios, which includes Mystwalkers, which developed Blue Dragon and is making Lost Odyssey right now.

If they can show they have a lot of games coming by December AND THEN make the price drop, I think it will spur more sales than right now when there is not really a triple A seller out there right now. Microsft did the price drop a month or so before Halo 3, so Sony should do it a month or so before MGS4.

2. Shipped is not sold. What a joke.

3. so 5.5 million x $200 loss on each unit sold = 1.1 Billion losses by march 2008.... great way to do business...

Sometimes in order to keep market share, you have to sacrifice profit. If PS3 backed out due to $200 loss on each unit, Microsoft would sell their junk console for $599.99, and they would sell millions.

"It's just money and we have tons of the stuff"

I not sure who im quoting but it sounded nice :P~

4. If Sony shipped 5.5 million PS3s in fiscal 2007 and stated that they'd ship 11 million in fiscal 2008, doesn't it mean they're shipping less per month than in fiscal 2007?

5 months of shipping 5.5 million PS3s in fiscal 2007 is 1.1 million units per month while 12 months of shipping 11 million PS3s in fiscal 2008 is 917,000 units per month.

do not believe everything you read.
Especially if it's from Sony about Sony

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