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Sony Sound Fed Up With Calls For A Price Cut [Sony]
Kotaku —
... Despite publishers, analysts and consumers calling repeatedly for a price cut on the machine, SCE America's senior vice president of marketing Peter Dille sounds positively fed up with other people telling him how to do his job. "Everybody in the development community would love for the PS3 to be free", Dille told Bloomberg, "so they could just sell razor blades". Why so huffy? It's an understandable request. After all, razor blades are expensive! Sony Faces Heat From Game Publishers to Cut PS3 Price [Bloomberg]
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Sony: 'No Immediate Plans For Price Cut'
G4 TV - TheFeed —
If you've been following the sometimes rocky road the PlayStation 3 has been walking since its release, you know that recently the chorus of gaming insiders and consumers calling for price-cuts for the console grows larger every week. But what does Sony think about lowering the PlayStation 3's price?
Traditionally, the company has replied "no comment" to price-cut speculation, but financial reporting site Bloomberg recently spoke to Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment America, who addressed the question head-on. According to Bloomberg, Dille said Sony has no ...
Sony Responds to Calls for PS3 Price Cut
BeefJack —
Sony Responds to Calls for PS3 Price Cut Leave a comment Posted March 16, 2009 by David Koenig in News , PS3 News . ps3 Sony has always been at a disadvantage when it first revealed that the PS3 would become the most expensive console of this generation. Although since its release the price has been dropped many are still calling for increased reductions. In an interview with Bloomberg Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing, responded.“Everybody in the development community would love for the PS3 to be free… Sony is concerned with profitability, as well as the installed base.” Even with such a response many analysts ...
Publishers tell Sony it's time for a PS3 price cut
Opposable Thumbs —
While overall game sales are doing very well in the face of recession, Sony seems to be lagging behind the pack when it comes to both software and hardware sales. The reasons for this are debatable—and could likely fill a book—but the simplest and toughest issue is the price. At $400, the PS3 is the most expensive system on the market by a large margin. Publishers are really starting to lean on Sony to do something about the price ...
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