Only half of the 6 million shipped PS3s sold, price drop imminent.

So, a leading Japanese investment firm says only half of the
manufactured Ps3s have sold. That's in line with sites like
VGCharts.org and nexgenwars.com

Frankly, this is a disaster for Sony. It's own home territory has
largely ignored the Ps3, despite games like Motorstorm and VF5
dropping for it, and North America has lost it's lust for all things
Sony very rapidly since launch.

Europe was supposed to be the real winner for Sony, but despite
encouraging launch figures, the console slipped quietly away and is
now selling behind it's rivals.

The Playstation brand is no longer the sure-fire guarantee of success
it once was, and you can bet Sony are going to rethink their strategy
very soon.

Analysts are already predicting that Halo 3 will help boost the 360's
lead over the PS3 significantly this fall, and with the continuing
poor sales, developers are unlikely to comit massive resources solly
to the PS3 either.

Blig Merk and his bonehead PS3 fanboys can all weep as they see their
favourite movie player die like a stillborn lamb on the slaughter
table.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...238&Ite mid=2


Monday, April 16, 2007, 12:41pm PT


Updated: Monday, 16 April 2007
Analysts Predict PS3 Price Drop
By Tom Ivan

Despite reports that Sony may soon release encouraging profit
forecasts, analysts are predicting a PlayStation 3 price cut before
the end of the year.

Image According to a report based on findings printed in Japan's
Nikkei newspaper, researchers from leading Japanese investment firm
Nomura stated, "We think Sony will find it hard to get through the
financial year without cutting the price of the console, and expect
further game segment losses of over $1 billion during that period."

Nomura estimates that Sony has shifted half of the 6 million PS3s
manufactured to date, and that along with a price cut, software
releases are key to extending PS3s market reach.

"We do not see the necessary drawing power in the title pipeline at
this point. We expect Sony to take measures to increase market
penetration of PS3 hardware, including extending the software lineup,
and expect to review our medium-term estimates for the game segment if
and when such measures come into view."

Nomura's analysts believe Sony's console will eventually be profitable
if appropriate measures are taken. "We think losses in the game
segment are temporary and expect its earnings to improve. That said,
we think the extent of profit growth in the segment will hinge on how
well the PlayStation3 sells at the expected price and the launch of
titles for it."

>On Apr 16, 3:48 pm, "Teemoney Too" <bigboobs_li...@lycos.co.uk> wrote:

Of course, you all realize this poster is that idiot Swami Muttonhead.
It is probably appropriate the moron picked this latest "identity".
This was Swam Mollen in 2001, referring to Treemonkey:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.g...5ba2cd94394cfd

"Whatever his excuses are, I think that it's time to give it a
rest (for all of us). The guys sorry, so lets leave it at that."

So, after all this time, it turns out that Swami was actually envious
of Treemonkey to the point the bitch is now, 6 years later, taking on
that ****wit lunatic's "identity". Who can ever forget Treemonkey's
psycho-babble about how Micro$haft was raping Sony up the ass with the
XFLop, what a failure the PS2 was, how the PS2 was leading to the
collapse of Sony, blah, blah, blah, with Zackcrybabybitch being the
steady and constant apologist for Treemonkey. All the while, the PS2
went on to become the MOST SUCCESSFUL CONSOLE IN HISTORY, with steady
sales and huge sales when the AAA games hit. It is unknown why, but
for some reason, becoming an xflop fanbitch leads to more and more
psychotic delusions until all the xflop fanbitches sound like
permanent residents of an insane asylum. There are indications that
being an xflop fanbitch does lead to mental illness.

On Apr 16, 6:48 pm, "Teemoney Too" <bigboobs_li...@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
> So, a leading Japanese investment firm says only half of the
> manufactured Ps3s have sold. That's in line with sites like
> VGCharts.org and nexgenwars.com
>
> Frankly, this is a disaster for Sony. It's own home territory has
> largely ignored the Ps3, despite games like Motorstorm and VF5
> dropping for it, and North America has lost it's lust for all things
> Sony very rapidly since launch.
>
> Europe was supposed to be the real winner for Sony, but despite
> encouraging launch figures, the console slipped quietly away and is
> now selling behind it's rivals.
>
> The Playstation brand is no longer the sure-fire guarantee of success
> it once was, and you can bet Sony are going to rethink their strategy
> very soon.
>
> Analysts are already predicting that Halo 3 will help boost the 360's
> lead over the PS3 significantly this fall, and with the continuing
> poor sales, developers are unlikely to comit massive resources solly
> to the PS3 either.
>
> Blig Merk and his bonehead PS3 fanboys can all weep as they see their
> favourite movie player die like a stillborn lamb on the slaughter
> table.
>
> http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...sk=view&id=523...
>
> Monday, April 16, 2007, 12:41pm PT
>
> Updated: Monday, 16 April 2007
> Analysts Predict PS3 Price Drop
> By Tom Ivan
>
> Despite reports that Sony may soon release encouraging profit
> forecasts, analysts are predicting a PlayStation 3 price cut before
> the end of the year.
>
> Image According to a report based on findings printed in Japan's
> Nikkei newspaper, researchers from leading Japanese investment firm
> Nomura stated, "We think Sony will find it hard to get through the
> financial year without cutting the price of the console, and expect
> further game segment losses of over $1 billion during that period."
>
> Nomura estimates that Sony has shifted half of the 6 million PS3s
> manufactured to date, and that along with a price cut, software
> releases are key to extending PS3s market reach.
>
> "We do not see the necessary drawing power in the title pipeline at
> this point. We expect Sony to take measures to increase market
> penetration of PS3 hardware, including extending the software lineup,
> and expect to review our medium-term estimates for the game segment if
> and when such measures come into view."
>
> Nomura's analysts believe Sony's console will eventually be profitable
> if appropriate measures are taken. "We think losses in the game
> segment are temporary and expect its earnings to improve. That said,
> we think the extent of profit growth in the segment will hinge on how
> well the PlayStation3 sells at the expected price and the launch of
> titles for it."


I guess the only way McMold can get 'somebody' to agree with him is to
pretend to be someone else...pretty pathetic actually...

On Apr 17, 2:58 am, SHaKeY STeVe <shakey.st...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 6:48 pm, "Teemoney Too" <bigboobs_li...@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> > So, a leading Japanese investment firm says only half of the
> > manufactured Ps3s have sold. That's in line with sites like
> > VGCharts.org and nexgenwars.com
>
> > Frankly, this is a disaster for Sony. It's own home territory has
> > largely ignored the Ps3, despite games like Motorstorm and VF5
> > dropping for it, and North America has lost it's lust for all things
> > Sony very rapidly since launch.
>
> > Europe was supposed to be the real winner for Sony, but despite
> > encouraging launch figures, the console slipped quietly away and is
> > now selling behind it's rivals.
>
> > The Playstation brand is no longer the sure-fire guarantee of success
> > it once was, and you can bet Sony are going to rethink their strategy
> > very soon.
>
> > Analysts are already predicting that Halo 3 will help boost the 360's
> > lead over the PS3 significantly this fall, and with the continuing
> > poor sales, developers are unlikely to comit massive resources solly
> > to the PS3 either.
>
> > Blig Merk and his bonehead PS3 fanboys can all weep as they see their
> > favourite movie player die like a stillborn lamb on the slaughter
> > table.
>
> >http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...sk=view&id=523...
>
> > Monday, April 16, 2007, 12:41pm PT
>
> > Updated: Monday, 16 April 2007
> > Analysts Predict PS3 Price Drop
> > By Tom Ivan
>
> > Despite reports that Sony may soon release encouraging profit
> > forecasts, analysts are predicting a PlayStation 3 price cut before
> > the end of the year.
>
> > Image According to a report based on findings printed in Japan's
> > Nikkei newspaper, researchers from leading Japanese investment firm
> > Nomura stated, "We think Sony will find it hard to get through the
> > financial year without cutting the price of the console, and expect
> > further game segment losses of over $1 billion during that period."
>
> > Nomura estimates that Sony has shifted half of the 6 million PS3s
> > manufactured to date, and that along with a price cut, software
> > releases are key to extending PS3s market reach.
>
> > "We do not see the necessary drawing power in the title pipeline at
> > this point. We expect Sony to take measures to increase market
> > penetration of PS3 hardware, including extending the software lineup,
> > and expect to review our medium-term estimates for the game segment if
> > and when such measures come into view."
>
> > Nomura's analysts believe Sony's console will eventually be profitable
> > if appropriate measures are taken. "We think losses in the game
> > segment are temporary and expect its earnings to improve. That said,
> > we think the extent of profit growth in the segment will hinge on how
> > well the PlayStation3 sells at the expected price and the launch of
> > titles for it."
>
> I guess the only way McMold can get 'somebody' to agree with him is to
> pretend to be someone else...pretty pathetic actually...

On Apr 17, 4:27 am, "Blig Merk II: XFLOP Fanboy."
<bigboobs_li...@lycos.co.uk> wrote:



See. LOL

yawwwwwwnnnnnnn

"Blig Merk" <blig_murk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1176773043.354980.114600@y5g2000hsa.googlegro ups.com...
> >On Apr 16, 3:48 pm, "Teemoney Too" <bigboobs_li...@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Of course, you all realize this poster is that idiot Swami Muttonhead.
> It is probably appropriate the moron picked this latest "identity".
> This was Swam Mollen in 2001, referring to Treemonkey:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.g...5ba2cd94394cfd
>
> "Whatever his excuses are, I think that it's time to give it a
> rest (for all of us). The guys sorry, so lets leave it at that."
>
> So, after all this time, it turns out that Swami was actually envious
> of Treemonkey to the point the bitch is now, 6 years later, taking on
> that ****wit lunatic's "identity". Who can ever forget Treemonkey's
> psycho-babble about how Micro$haft was raping Sony up the ass with the
> XFLop, what a failure the PS2 was, how the PS2 was leading to the
> collapse of Sony, blah, blah, blah, with Zackcrybabybitch being the
> steady and constant apologist for Treemonkey. All the while, the PS2
> went on to become the MOST SUCCESSFUL CONSOLE IN HISTORY, with steady
> sales and huge sales when the AAA games hit. It is unknown why, but
> for some reason, becoming an xflop fanbitch leads to more and more
> psychotic delusions until all the xflop fanbitches sound like
> permanent residents of an insane asylum. There are indications that
> being an xflop fanbitch does lead to mental illness.
>

On Apr 16, 6:24 pm, Blig Merk <blig_m...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >On Apr 16, 3:48 pm, "Teemoney Too" <bigboobs_li...@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Of course, you all realize this poster is that idiot Swami Muttonhead.
> It is probably appropriate the moron picked this latest "identity".
> This was Swam Mollen in 2001, referring to Treemonkey:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.g...ystation2/msg/...
>
> "Whatever his excuses are, I think that it's time to give it a
> rest (for all of us). The guys sorry, so lets leave it at that."
>
> So, after all this time, it turns out that Swami was actually envious
> of Treemonkey to the point the bitch is now, 6 years later, taking on
> that ****wit lunatic's "identity". Who can ever forget Treemonkey's
> psycho-babble about how Micro$haft was raping Sony up the ass with the
> XFLop, what a failure the PS2 was, how the PS2 was leading to the
> collapse of Sony, blah, blah, blah, with Zackcrybabybitch being the
> steady and constant apologist for Treemonkey. All the while, the PS2
> went on to become the MOST SUCCESSFUL CONSOLE IN HISTORY, with steady
> sales and huge sales when the AAA games hit. It is unknown why, but
> for some reason, becoming an xflop fanbitch leads to more and more
> psychotic delusions until all the xflop fanbitches sound like
> permanent residents of an insane asylum. There are indications that
> being an xflop fanbitch does lead to mental illness.


The PS3 is selling so poorly, Sony Entertainment is slashing staff in
Europe.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=75362

Blig Merk spake thusly:
>
> Of course, you all realize this poster is that idiot Swami Muttonhead.
> It is probably appropriate the moron picked this latest "identity".
> This was Swam Mollen in 2001, referring to Treemonkey:

Notice how Bliggy ignores the topic of the post, and goes off on some
rant about another user who hasn't been seen around here in years but
whom he still obsesses over? Predictable but nonetheless amusing.

> All the while, the PS2
> went on to become the MOST SUCCESSFUL CONSOLE IN HISTORY, with steady
> sales and huge sales when the AAA games hit.

Come on Bligmerk. You may be insane, but I know you're not an idiot.
Even you -- yes, even the most tunnel-visioned, ignorant and unrepentant
Sony apologist that the Internet has ever birthed -- must see the stark
differences between the PS2 and the PS3. The circumstances around each
console's launch could not be more opposite. Price, competition, demand,
brand loyalty, game exclusivity... everything that worked in the PS2's
favor is either absent in the PS3 or working against it.

I still don't believe the PS3 is going to die out, and I think it has a
chance of gaining some lost ground in 2008 and beyond. But how much
money can Sony afford to lose on it before then? Dropping the price this
year will only put Sony deeper in the hole (and with the $500 model
discontinued, they're basically dropping the price after a de facto $100
price hike.)

-Z-

On Apr 17, 1:34 pm, Zackman <zack...@SPAMISEVILearthling.net> wrote:
> You may be insane, but I know you're not an idiot.
> Even you -- yes, even the most tunnel-visioned, ignorant and unrepentant
> Sony apologist that the Internet has ever birthed -- must see the stark
> differences between the PS2 and the PS3. The circumstances around each

Geez...until you got to the word 'Sony', I thought you were talking
about Sammus McMold/Teemoney/MerKII or whatever sockpuppet he's using
today...

On Apr 18, 7:23 am, SHaKeY STeVe <shakey.st...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 17, 1:34 pm, Zackman <zack...@SPAMISEVILearthling.net> wrote:
>
> > You may be insane, but I know you're not an idiot.
> > Even you -- yes, even the most tunnel-visioned, ignorant and unrepentant
> > Sony apologist that the Internet has ever birthed -- must see the stark
> > differences between the PS2 and the PS3. The circumstances around each
>
> Geez...until you got to the word 'Sony', I thought you were talking
> about Sammus McMold/Teemoney/MerKII or whatever sockpuppet he's using
> today...

http://www.YourPS34free.com/index.php?ref=3825945