Pachter: Sony “is a distant third, and is falling behind at a rapid pace”

Given what’s been happening to Sony this week, I’d imagine a PS3 price cut is probably the last thing on their minds.

Didn’t he say that last week? And the week before that?

“Playstation 3 – The third place”
Who would have thought Sony marketing would be so right with the slogan two years ago.

Sony has to do something though, all they seem be doing at the moment is rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

My god, this guy does not shut up!

Well… it is kind of his job.

He wins the “No shit, Sherlock” award for that.

I have a feeling they’ll cut price a month or so after Killzone 2 is unleashed. Which does at least look lovely from what I’ve seen of it.

Pachter has no insider knowledge, he doesn’t sit on the board at Sony. It’s people like him that speculate and cause massive damage to the economy. Sony may be struggling at the moment, guess what, so are most companies right now. Sony have said time and again they have a 10 year plan for PS3. Killzone 2, Uncharted 2 as well as Resident Evil 5, Tekken 6 etc make for promising year for this machine. BluRay will be a hi Def format of choice until very high broadband speeds are affordable and available to all for movie download. Also Sony’s machine doesn’t break constantly. M$ have a great lead but they are far from the millions of original PSones and PS2s sold in their lifetimes, this generation has plenty of life left in it yet.

A UK price drop would be really difficult to achieve with the way the pound has tanked but then again a £300 console doesn’t seem to be doing much business here either.

“unleashed” – lol.

No, seriously. The PS3 is doomed.

It’s always good to hear that Sony’s masterplan is, obviously, not selling consoles.

Pachter causes massive damage to Sony?

Well, then, that’s their fault for employing Giant Enemy Crabs.

If Sony stepped up and secured the amount of exclusive content that Microsoft is, price of the console would never be an issue. If that’s where the games are, people will pay for the system whether they realize the immediate value or not.

It seems this generation Sony is run by a bunch of idiots. At almost every turn Sony looks stupid. The things they say (Rumble a thing of the past), the things they do (gimp the PS3), the promises they fail to keep or do half assed (fractured Trophy library or Custom Sdtrks at developers discretion)… it seems like they have no idea what they’re doing and they don’t look like the Sony of old at all.

I often wonder where they get their consumer feed back from.

Wow, Patcher is just realizing this? Holy fuck…

Indeed. As much as I hope that the machine I chose doesn’t get chopped, I can only see Sony digging themselves further and further into the mire when they don’t reduce that price.

Michael Pachter is nice guy, but I get tired of his comments. He has a 60 percent right track record, which is lousy.

This guy used to be so perfect with his magic-8-ball-predictions, but ever since he said Wii was a short-lived fad he’s been completely missing the mark.

I mean he’s said the same thing every week since like a year ago recurring, fuck.