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Gold Jinjo
24th September 2006, 08:00 PM
Maybe it's because I don't really follow Sony that much, but I hadn't really heard of this "Jack Tretton" character until just now. Apparently he's some kind of Vice President :rolleyes:

Anyway, I could hardly believe what I read in this article (http://www.aussie-nintendo.com/?v=news&p=5230) just now.

...and if you look at the adoption rate of the DS over the first 17 months, not only does it trail the PSP but it also trails their other platforms

Yeah, that's fair. Look at the time period where your PSP was actually successful, rather than in the long run where Nintendo is quite obviously kicking your ass.

...we think we’re expanding into a completely new audience as we did with PlayStation. And we’ll do just what we did on PlayStation; [...] we’ll ultimately appeal to that vastly Earth wide audience we carved out with the original PlayStation

Careful there. Keep saying PlayStation like that, you might have an orgasm.

You start with the core audience first and then it's much easier to reach down to a younger consumer and it's much easier to reach out to a passive gamer than it is to go the other way around.

He obviously doesn't know Nintendo's strategy.

Say whatever you want, Tretton. But Nintendo's Wii will have a 3,600,000 million unit lead on your PS3 at launch. So if you want to tout your company's outstanding achievements in the field of audience expansion (and excellence, of course), you could try building more PS3s that also won't explode in people's living rooms.

P_L
24th September 2006, 08:11 PM
I would tell you for a fact that there are much more people in their 50s and 60s playing PlayStation platforms in terms of console, than there are playing Nintendo platforms.

So their target audience is 50- and 60-year-olds now? o-O

I think Sony might actually realize that they've already gone off the deep end (which they did ages ago), and now they're just trying to prove to the world just how deep they can sink themselves to show how "strong" of a company they are. Not that they realize that the point they're trying to prove is one that will destroy their company ... :rolleyes: This theory is probably wrong, though; it's more likely they just don't have any idea what they're doing to themselves ...

Macsbuddy
24th September 2006, 09:55 PM
Attention RWP Shoppers! Gold Jinjo has just pwnd the heck out of Sony!

So, this is what i got from this:

Quote 1: See? The PSP is a lot better than DS! Look I have proof! I have proof! See? See?

Quote 2: We have new people playing playstations, we'll use the stratigies we used on the first Playstations, and that is selling a lot of Playststions.

Quote 3: it's easier to sell games to core players, and then hope that the new players pick it up as well

normally, I would be protecting Sony, but in this case, Wii60 has killed you and you havn't even released your system yet...sad...

Gruntling
24th September 2006, 10:01 PM
The execs gotta say what they gotta say to keep that positive image around Sony and the PlayStation 3. ;) They aren't getting payed to showcase the PS3 in a negative or even realistic light.

Gold Jinjo
24th September 2006, 10:24 PM
The execs gotta say what they gotta say to keep that positive image around Sony and the PlayStation 3. ;) They aren't getting payed to showcase the PS3 in a negative or even realistic light.

Oh definitely. But you don't need to "make-believe" to do it... :)

It's one thing to say that the PlayStation has strong third party support. It's a whole different thing to claim that it can give you the strength of Chuck Norris ;)