• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    more profitable in the short term

    there’s no way you can build a 10- or 20-year business plan around that.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t know where people get these ideas from. Sony has been around for 40 years, and they haven’t done so by shooting themselves in the foot.

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        They sold the original Playstation at a loss, the PSP was a bit of a flop and was advertised with a white woman physically intimidating a black woman by holding her by the face, they tried to copyright the words “Let’s Play”, and their laptop batteries used to explode causing the biggest recall of pcs in history.

        There’s plenty of examples of them fucking up.

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          Selling consoles for a loss at release is a common practice. They make most of their money from software sales and around the time of the mid gen refresh the consoles start selling for a profit. Also the PSP sold really well and was hardly a flop (the vita on the other hand)

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          6 months ago

          Clearly you don’t understand the phrase “shooting yourself in the foot”. What you described are mistakes. What they’re being accused of is intentional.

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        6 months ago

        Lance Armstrong won 7 tour the France, he must have been doing something right.