IDC Analyst Slams Media - Article
by Pat Fass , posted on 01 May 2007 / 1,416 Views
Billy Pidgeon has attacked media reports that claim Ken Kutaragi’s retirement from Sony was a result of a poor PS3 launch. In a drastic change from last week’s statements, Pidgeon states, “The popular press scenario [which] casts the PS3 as Sony's folly has journalists suggesting that Kutaragi's retirement is a dressing down for a failed PS3 launch. IDC believes this is a facile, myopic perspective. The negative on the PS3 is that the console is a late bloomer.”
Pidgeon believes that the PS3 is ‘ahead of the market’ and while the Xbox 360 and Wii were designed for ‘immediate market impact’, the PS3 will have a ‘steep uptake’ in 2008 with games like Lair and Heavenly Sword and the Playstation Home service paving the way.
In previous reports regarding Kutaragi’s departure, Pidgeon was quoted as saying, “Sony had too much hype and not enough delivery. Sony didn't notice that their audience was dwindling and didn't increase the base by playing to a wider demographic, and instead it played the old-school game of playing to the 18- to 32-year-old male early adopter.”, alluding to the idea that the retirement was, in fact, a direct result of poor sales.
One has to wonder what caused Pidgeon to have such a change of heart…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042700319.html
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5405&Itemid=2
