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Topic: Sony cutting jobs (Read 111053 times)
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Yegolev
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Do you know where I can get a copy of the movie other than illegally? (I actually believe in non-piracy)
No, I'm pretty sure I watched Killjoy's copy. He buys wacky things is weird places. I think he found Old Boy in Wal*Mart. |
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Yegolev
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Not enough of a price cut. If I wanted a PS3 at $500, I would have picked up the 20GB model when it was still available. The funny thing is that selling a model of PS3 without a hard drive, unlike the 360, would be not as bad an idea since you can put any 2.5" in it. It's like Bizzaro World. Sony needs to educate the public rather than confuse them via advertising, but a price drop should help sales anyway. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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HaemishM
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No amount of Sony re-education of the public is going to help them sell a $600 console. The public just doesn't see that as a value-oriented proposition. At $500, maybe. At $400, education is possible. It doesn't matter if you can put any 2.5" hard drive in the system, because Joe Public won't do that anyway. It's against the nature of the typical Joe Public console buyer, who buys the console to just work as is with little additional hardware expenditure. Buying a lightgun is something Joe Public gets. Buying a hard drive is something geeks do.
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Yegolev
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Your argument is still predicated on the absolute measurement of $600 as "too much money". Your Joe Public argument is good, but that segment is resistant to education anyway, responding best to flashy lights and lies. I'm mostly talking about the people that are looking to get either a 360 or PS3 and think things like "de 360 has dat dere extry hard drive ye can get", but then we go back to the fact that the PS3 doesn't have any games. If you are going to buy a console that doesn't have any games, you might as well get a Wii.
I still think that most people are unaware of the things the PS3 does, while most of the 360 functionality is better known. /shrug
Anyway, seems like the price will drop before the end of the month if Internet Rumors are to be trusted, so we should get to find out how things go at $500.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Miasma
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Just now at lunch I bought some stuff at Best Buy and as I was checking out at that little manager's desk two people in front of me were buying Wiis and a bunch of nunchucks and games. First time I've ever seen this store have them in stock. They were older Asian women, this "aim for a broader audience" thing is working gangbusters for Nintendo. After checking out they got on their cell phones and called their friends to let them know a few were in stock and asked wether or not they should pick up a couple more.
I didn't buy one even though they had them however, meh.
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Riggswolfe
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Anyway, seems like the price will drop before the end of the month if Internet Rumors are to be trusted, so we should get to find out how things go at $500.
Ok...I found an article. The source is some dude who posts on a few forums that in the past has given very respectable information about sales at electronics merchandisers. Gamespot is saying that the guy has been right in the past but he also only mentions Circuit City having an ad coming soon with that price. So they think it is probably a sale at Circuit City and not an overall price cut. |
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schild
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A "price break" which is what the ads show, is not the same as a "sale." A "price break" is normally a permanent thing in retailer nomenclature.
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Riggswolfe
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Honestly, I'd love to think that it is a "price break". I might buy a PS3 at that price, but somehow I think Sony is too arrogant to do that.
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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CmdrSlack
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Aaannnd that's a big no to the price drop. Linky |
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schild
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Aaannnd that's a big no to the price drop. LinkySega denied the Dreamcast price cut the day before they did it. Denials mean nothing until E3. |
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Chimpy
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Apparently, the "deny on friday, make cut on sunday" logic applied to this, according to that WSJ article that was posted in a new thread a minute ago which I am too lazy to find and link.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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schild
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Heh. Hilarious.
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CmdrSlack
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Meh, well so much for that. Other thread wasn't there when I posted that, because I actually looked.
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