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Shinji Mikami criticizes Sony & Square-Enix
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ToyMachine228
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Yeah wicked old
Tommie Hu$tle
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Someone needs to take a trip on the
Luscious LeftFoot
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Tommie Hu$tle said:
haha!
That's completely idiotic. Sony wants PS2s to fail so consumers have to buy new ones? That would make a lot of sense if you lacked the ability to reason. First, Sony does not even clear that much on each sale of the PS2, it's not even worth it when you consider the tradeoffs.
Tradeoff 1 - Customers have to replace a PS2, at the expense of possibly purchasing up to three new games (or even more bargains like Greatest Hits). What are the royalties for those games? Would those royalties match or exceed the margin on a new PS2?
Tradeoff 2 - What if these customers do not buy a replacement system? What are the values of the lost software sales?
Tradeoff 3 - It just goes against all common sense. It only goes to create customer ill-will, and that is something that no company really wants. A company is certainly not going to try to create a situation that would piss off the consumer.
Tradeoff 1 - Customers have to replace a PS2, at the expense of possibly purchasing up to three new games (or even more bargains like Greatest Hits). What are the royalties for those games? Would those royalties match or exceed the margin on a new PS2?
Tradeoff 2 - What if these customers do not buy a replacement system? What are the values of the lost software sales?
Tradeoff 3 - It just goes against all common sense. It only goes to create customer ill-will, and that is something that no company really wants. A company is certainly not going to try to create a situation that would piss off the consumer.
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
"Next, Mikami said that Kingdom Hearts' strong sales are due to "aura purchase," meaning that customers are buying the game because their friends have bought it or like it, regardless of whether they like the game themselves. He said that Kingdom Hearts does not deserve its 780,000 sales or 6800 yen price tag."
lol - cry me a bucket! How dare good word of mouth help a game sell!
"Neither Square nor Sony has made any comments regarding Mikami's statements."
They just sent a MD full of the sound of all their employees laughing, with a free complimentary MD Player (which ,ironically, failed to work)
lol - cry me a bucket! How dare good word of mouth help a game sell!
"Neither Square nor Sony has made any comments regarding Mikami's statements."
They just sent a MD full of the sound of all their employees laughing, with a free complimentary MD Player (which ,ironically, failed to work)
Alcibiades
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DCharlie said:
that's a joke, right?
Ninja Scooter
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you just left SSX with blueballs. I hope you're happy.
Doom_Bringer
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the article you posted is edited. He said nothing about the original PSX and other Sony products.
All he talked about was Kingdom Hearts and PS2.
All he talked about was Kingdom Hearts and PS2.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
My first reaction seeing this thread title was "again?" Upon reading through it, I instead saw quotes from an article I wrote two years ago. Funny. =)
SolidSnakex
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Gek54 said:
He was upset about it outselling REmake.