Posted on 03/25/2007 7:47:23 PM PDT by JohnSheppard
In an interview with Martin Matt, from the popular GameIndustry.biz site, Sony UK managing director Ray Maguire calls America "a land of cheap people", while the UK is a little island where rent and rates are at an absolute premium.
When asked about the high price of the PS3 in PAL areas, especially in the UK (where Sonys console is currently being sold for GBP 425- US $840- more expensive than anywhere in Europe) this is what Ray Maguire had to say:
If you take what's considered to be the most expensive and the least expensive consider the US with its massive land and cheap people. Then you look at the UK a little island where rent and rates are at an absolute premium, and the cost of people is a lot more. The cost of retail is vastly more in the UK than it is in the US and that's before you even stop to consider the US doesn't have VAT at RRP, they put a small amount on afterwards. Whereas, we get stung by 17.5 per cent. And pity the poor Irish and places like Sweden.
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Hell yeah I'm cheap and damned proud of it. I don't pay for somebody's R&D, I wait until the price comes down.
That was the general concensus reaction of many Europeans interviewed by the CNN reporter on the sidewalks of New York City. They were both shocked and amazed at the prices for such items as computers, gaming consoles, and flat screen televisions.
"Cheap" people is insulting to those who make up the majority of the Sony market. Could they mean "frugal"? The dollar exchange with the pound right now puts those American people at quite a disadvantage. The writer does not have a way with words.
While the socialist faction in Great Britain measures value & worth with a childs toy; America believes noble acts are an obligation owed to our fellow man, and to God.
It is an honor, and we are proud to be measured by a more substantial ruler than that crowed over in this article.
Game stations aren't really exculsivly for children anymore. I'm just nickping, I agree with you there.
Notice my tagline.
Sony, aiming squarely at their foot.
Same here.
Twenty-five years ago, four out of five electronic devices I owned were Sony.
Today, my latest purchases, an 8 megapixel digital camera is a Panasonic... My DVD recorder a JVC, my theater sound unit is a Phillips...
Articles like this one just validate the decision I made years ago to dump SONY.
Good luck to them.
Has SONY sued him yet?
I liked the little tiebacks to Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley in the shooting game. Still, Billiards has been the top timewaster around here lately.
Not cheap..."thrifty"!
Obvioulsy this was a backhanded attack by Matt on Wal-Mart.
One word: Wii.
My son wants to buy one, he has the money saved up... But oddly enough, we can't find one locally. They seem to be all sold out. XBox 360? Sure. PS3, can-do. But he wants, and can afford, a Wii.
Economics in action.
The Wii is somehow amazing. We spent hours playing at making Mii's with family and friends. Everyone enjoys making a Mii of somebody else in the room. The things turn out amazingly lifelike when you get a consensus from a bunch of people.
Then you take a simple game like bowling. We had 6 people of all ages playing for hours. Playstation is coming up with Super Splinter Cell Double Halo Explosion Race II and you have people all over the country playing a cheesy little bowling game till their arms are sore.
I think its pretty cool that the graphics uber alles sellers are getting shocked that people like to do fun halfway cheesy things together more than they like to see every blood droplet in high definition....especially at 1/3 the price.
Maybe game-makers and entertainment people now have to take a second look at their industry. Maybe they have been slapped in the face with the fact that the game market is not exclusively violent 15 year old boys with millionaire parents like they thought.
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