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ZippyDSMlee
03-01-2007, 08:17 PM
Jack Tretton, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America has told Reuters that Sony is working to resolve PS3 shortages by May and that the company is on track to have shipped 2 million PS3 consoles to North America by the end of March. "April or May is when we feel like we're going to catch up to demand and have product fully in stock across North America and stay there," Tretton said.

When asked about claims that PS3s are sitting on shelves in some area's in North America, Tretton said, "Our goal is to fill shelves across the United States. Our goal is not to have empty shelves, it's to have full shelves. If we have empty shelves, that's one less consumer who could have bought a PlayStation 3."

When asked about PS3 shipment goals, he said, "We're in pretty good shape to do that. The early returns are quite favorable," he said. Sony set of a goal of shipping 6 million PS3 consoles worldwide by March 2007.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/13/325933#2871246

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*BLINK BLINK*

Sony making Fuax news look good......


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I have to post hamsoms post

Okay everybody, pay close attention; I just broke out of Sony's North American Headquarters Office, and I got their top secret plan to get systems back in stock by May! Bear with me if I seem a bit fanatical, I was ambushed on my way out by Sony's evil squad of chimp-henchman, led by Ken Kutaragi!

Sony indeed will have systems back on store shelves by this May. They have been secretly traning an army of small campbell's (aka Syberian Dwarf)hamsters to infiltrate the pet stores of America. These tiny creatures will slowly be distirbuted through American households under the product title of the 'Sony PlayStationPooper', named after their ability to fill a small cage in a matter of days. These furry evil-trained rodents will replicate in mass once sold, passing on hereditarily, their evil training from Sony. When every household in America has five of them (Estimated by April 7th, 2007; assuming that production on Sony's new 'Evil Corp'© processor manufactures according to plan.) Once this goal is reached, the hamsters will turn on humans, enslaving North American consumers, turning them into mindless drones, through the cunning use of hypno-helmets and evil-cuteness. They will control all of us, remove all Sony playstation 3's from store shelves, and hide them in a small burrow in ZippyDSM's backyard. (Yes, I picked his name at random, so that's where they're hiding it!!!!) Once all the PS3's are hidden in the larg underground burrow in ZippyDSM's backyard; they will return us all to our normal daily lives, and we'll each sort of 'snap' back into reality holding notes that say "Where have all the PS3's gone?"

Sony's plan then, after a few days, will be to have the evil campbell's hamsters(Aka syberian dwarf hamsters) take all the PS3's in North America out of the burrow in ZippyDSM's backyard and put them into stores overnight, in addition to new systems that Sony will produce overseas while this entire incident has occured. The entire country will wake up one morning, and there will be breaking news on television, "The mysterious dissapearance of PS3's across the US has come to an end! PS3's are again, sitting on store shelves-"

This is Sony's big plan. Unfortunately, they haven't planned for the next sentence that will inevitably come out of the telecaster's mouths

"-and analysts estimate it's going to be a long time before these consoles move anywhere, because at a minimum price tag of $499 plus tax for a system without a game, no one is willing to pay out for this overhyped, oversized George Foreman grill."

........Zing.

I'm sorry, but I was very bored. And it was there.

there are B/s everywhere :D

KN
03-01-2007, 08:43 PM
Behold this little gem (http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/sony-blackballs-kotaku-240860.php)

ZippyDSMlee
03-01-2007, 08:55 PM
Behold this little gem (http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/sony-blackballs-kotaku-240860.php)

dosent sound so bad Sony is having a PR spat with a news site over OMG reporting the news....

KN
03-01-2007, 08:56 PM
dosent sound so bad Sony is having a PR spat with a news site over OMG reporting the news....

I like how they go "TURN IN YOUR SHINY PS3 NOW!"

Hank the Tank
03-02-2007, 01:50 AM
Hmm... Custom avatars that interact with each other, ey?
Unlocking system achievements through gameplay, ey?

NOW WHERE HAVE I HEARD OF THESE FEATURES BEFORE? HMMMMMMMMMM.

Thefremen
03-02-2007, 02:22 AM
Hmm... Custom avatars that interact with each other, ey?
Unlocking system achievements through gameplay, ey?

NOW WHERE HAVE I HEARD OF THESE FEATURES BEFORE? HMMMMMMMMMM.

I DON'T KNOW LOL!

Seriously Sony, you also really needed to have Virtua Fighter online multiplayer.

ZippyDSMlee
03-02-2007, 02:50 AM
I DON'T KNOW LOL!

Seriously Sony, you also really needed to have Virtua Fighter online multiplayer.

I think you can blame sega for that one :P

kurisu7885
03-02-2007, 03:53 AM
They can shore up the numbers all they want, I won't be interested until they drop the price.

KN
03-02-2007, 09:53 AM
People are actually celebrating that Sony is doing something about the shortages.

Read that again:

Sony has been force-feeding us five bricks for the last year or so. Suddenly, they decide to only feed us four. And we THANK them? :S

ZippyDSMlee
03-02-2007, 02:08 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98qC0fd_1w

LOL

so not right :D
love the ending tho :eek:

ZippyDSMlee
03-03-2007, 05:15 AM
aawww they make up...sheesh sony cant do anything right!
http://kotaku.com/gaming/sony/sony-and-kotaku-makeup-240922.php

steelcobra
03-03-2007, 05:33 AM
It's been a bad year for them, PR-wise. They got a bit too cocky after the PS1/2 and made a lot of assumptions. But the PS3 is still a kickass device.

ZippyDSMlee
03-03-2007, 11:19 AM
It's been a bad year for them, PR-wise. They got a bit too cocky after the PS1/2 and made a lot of assumptions. But the PS3 is still a kickass device.

its "ok" about as wonky as the 360 however the 360 is better because it has "more game"

I have no doubt Sony will be able to raise the PS3 from the depths but its only matter of time before Davy Johns comes looking for them if they don't start behaving!

ZippyDSMlee
03-03-2007, 02:50 PM
"" Lost Question Says:
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:03 pm

I said it be fore and i’ll repeat it in a slightly different way
PS1 = NES
PS2 = SNES
PS3 = N64 (the humble pie is served)
PS4 will = GC (the humble pie is finished off around the end of the consoles time)
""

on the main site
Editorial: Sony’s Kotaku Fiasco comments

He has a point the psx did well,the PS2 was better and now the apparent failings of the PS3.

the PS3 is alot like the Xbox was OTT and lacks games in 3 years all the Jp devs will be coming out of the wood work and making games for the PS3 so I see it shifting gears in time however for now the PS3 is suffering from having gremlins run the company....at least MS's gremlins wear suits and glasses :P

Thefremen
03-03-2007, 03:34 PM
It's been a bad year for them, PR-wise. They got a bit too cocky after the PS1/2 and made a lot of assumptions. But the PS3 is still a kickass device.

The problem with consoles/phones/etc is that they can be great devices but need the help of those selling it to succeed. It isn't like the Athlon 64 where it outclassed pentiums at the time and sold like hotcakes because users wanted a 64-bit proc that supported 32-bit code and ran FAST.

I mean, Nokia's N-gage (2nd revision) was actually a damn good phone (since they eliminated the side-talking) and not a bad gaming device (since the keys were better) but only 5 were sold.

steelcobra
03-03-2007, 07:06 PM
The problem with consoles/phones/etc is that they can be great devices but need the help of those selling it to succeed. It isn't like the Athlon 64 where it outclassed pentiums at the time and sold like hotcakes because users wanted a 64-bit proc that supported 32-bit code and ran FAST.

I mean, Nokia's N-gage (2nd revision) was actually a damn good phone (since they eliminated the side-talking) and not a bad gaming device (since the keys were better) but only 5 were sold.

The problem the QD had was that everyone had already abandoned the platform and considered it a joke of an attempt at a handheld game device.

The PS3, on the other hand, is an early-adopter priced unit at the moment. When White Knight Story, Metal Gear Solid 4, and other big exclusives show up, they'll start selling again.