Poor Sony. So misguided.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer has described the Nintendo Wii merely a “nice gaming device” and something of a novelty.
“I’ve played a Nintendo Wii,” Bloomberg reports Mr Stringer telling delegates at a business conference in California last week. “I don’t see it as a competitor. It’s more of an expensive niche game device. [...]
For those of you who haven’t been following the PS3 pricing strategy debacle, let me catch you up.
Last year before the PS3 debuted I wrote an article right here on the hallowed pages of Reading for New Times. In it I discussed how I thought Sony’s “luxury pricing strategy” was, to be blunt, insane.
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Well, i’m not afraid to eat crow.
I was wrong. dead wrong.
A while back I took a massive shit on Nintendo for their whole Wii concept, and the fact that they were flushing their business down a toilet. My co-worker bought one and brought it to work.
You did it Nintendo. You fooled everyone; you Kaiser Soze’d [...]
These two guys in Toronto (one dressed up like Luigi) got in line for PS3s and Wiis. Bought them and then smashed them with a sledge hammer in front of the people still waiting in line.
They called it performance art. I call it funny.
30 New Games, 30 Retro Titles, User-Friendly ‘Channels’ Make it the Affordable System for Gamers, Newcomers and Families
VANCOUVER, B.C., Sept. 14, 2006 – Nintendo will reshape the home entertainment and video game landscape with the launch of its heralded Wii™ home video game console. The Americas will lead the worldwide launch on Nov. 19. Wii [...]
