Well you've noticed the Halloween theme here this month, but now were going to talk about something TRUELY scary:
SONY!
I know what your thinking: "OH DEAR GOD, NOT SONY, AHHH!!! IT'S WORSE THAN TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSICRE."
Well I gotta say one thing: The new movie looks interesting.
But we’re going to talk about a different massacre, you know, the way that the lack of sales of the PS3 will massacre
Sony.
I’m not going to write an original thing after this intro, I want to prove I’m right, and how right I’ve been. Everything I
said from June to know I want to back up. I have right in front of me a newspaper article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
from Wednesday, October 4th, and you’re all going to read it now. OR ELSE!
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TOKYO - It has been an annus horribilis for Sony.
The Japanese electronics company has been hit with a string of embarrassments that have dented it’s
reputation for quality.
Already reeling from a string of laptop battery recalls, Sony Corp. saw it’s shares drop nearly 3 percent
Tuesday amid fresh worries about the upcoming release of it’s much-anticipated Playstation 3 video game console.
Sony has twice delayed the product’s introduction amid intensifying competition from rivals Microsoft
and Nintendo.
The Playstaion 3 will hit stores in Japan on Nov. 11 and in the United States on Nov. 17.
In Europe, they wont go on sale until March, four months later than planned.
Investors worried about the product after Macquarie Equities analyst David Gibson wrote in a report that
Playstaion 3 units on display at the Tokyo Game Show about 10 days ago operated erratically and had to be repeatedly
reset.
“While the reason for this is unknown, we suspect it may be due to overheating as a result of enclosing
the units and the high temperatures at the venue,’ Gibson wrote in the report on Monday. “We are concerned that such a
problem has occurred so close to full production and is clearly negative news for the company.”
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I’d like to point out if it were the lights, wouldn’t it have happened at E3 or something?
Also, I don’t know if I mentioned but it’s worth noting that sales of PSP video were so bad they stopped producing them
back in summer, I don’t think I mentioned it, but I might have.
Anyway, admit it, admit I’m right.
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