The latest issue of EGM reached my house yesterday, and try as I might, I haven't been able to come up with anything to say about a quote made by Sony's Jack Tretton that could make it look any worse, so here it is:
"If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it. I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that there's not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes."
I want to be a nice guy about this, so let's assume that Jack is blind, has no sense of smell and has a prehensile tail. Based on that sort of hideous deformity, one could theoretically assume he has more important things to worry about than the actual reality surrounding his company's largest, most expensive gambit, and that, perhaps, he has been spending the last few months learning to read braille in an effort to integrate with regular human society, as opposed to the French bell tower he currently resides in. Now, assuming all of that, and maybe adding in the fact that he's from a race of subterranean humanoids, one could possibly forgive the utter stupidity of what he said in that interview with EGM.
Of course, if Jack isn't a horrible homunculus, then it's a miracle that he has been feeding himself this long without choking to death on a spoon.
Contest:
3:43 AM on 02.10.2007
| 
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol"
Anyone gonna break the news to Jack?
I think he is stuck in time at Nov 2006!
Wheres my god damn movie check?!
lol
So this is the arrogance the internets speak of?
"But if 9 of the 18 stores you contacted had supplies, thats seems to be a clear indication that sales continue to be outstanding"
This being said once EGM notified him of how many PS3 were on store shelves after his 1200$ quote
He also goes on to say this.
"Not only did people camp out for a PS3 but they resold them at a 2500$ profit overnight"
This to him is a testament of how successful the launch went lol.
Heres a quote on the terrible launch lineup of games and how people feel it was "lacking".
"Resistance was our best reviewed title and number one selling game on the platform, so I'm not sure how you could say it was lacking"
I Don't think Sony gets it. I'm willing to bet the day Kutagari or Hirai admits failure and simply says "we fucked up and were going to do our best to win over the hearts of gamers again" every last one of us will feel sorry for sony and they will have us eating out of our hands again. Or just do what the 360 did to shut everyone up by "releasing some good games"
What's worse is that, from what I've seen, most of what's on store shelves right now are returns. Are stores even still ordering PS3s?
but hey perfect magazine, we all know how much 1up and egm are full of SH*T too heh
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2007/20070210.jpg
Sorry for the above post :p
Hi, I work at a major retail chain. We've had four PS3's for two weeks now.
That'll be 4800 dollars please.
Also, Cocks;
TazarThaYoot
And have have seen at least 2 PS3s sitting by a window at ever EB/Gamestop I have been to this week.
Show me the money!!!
Anyway, do these guys get out much? Or do they just have interns who they hire to check out the retailers....who then for fear for their jobs, lie to the bigwigs about how many systems are on the shelf?
Thanx, Nex!
I remember many many months ago that I had hopes that the PS3 would be a killer machine, but things just keep going downhill for them and stupid crap like this doesn't help at all.
Sony: Thank you for calling Sony. How can I help you this afternoon?
Me: Yes I wanted to know how I could collect my $1200 for every PS3 that I found in stores for longer than 5 minutes.
Sony: Huh?
Me: The new EGM magazine had the Sony President stating...
[Insert EGM quote here]
Sony: What's EGM?
Me: A gaming magazine, it’s fairly popular. You can pretty much find it anywhere, just look for the newest issue.
Sony: Hold on a second, let me talk to somebody.
[On hold for 3 minutes.]
Sony: Where did you see this again? You know we are customer service right?
Me: Yes I know, but I couldn't find any other phone number.
[Pause]
Sony: EGM?
Me: Oh sorry, it's a gaming magazine, you can find it anywhere.
Sony: Alright hold on again please.
[On hold again for a few minutes.]
Sony: I'm sorry sir but you'll have to contact EGM magazine. Sony doesn't condole this statement.
Me: But the Sony President said it, shouldn't you obey it?
Sony: I'm sorry, but you need to contact EGM. Whatever was said in there is not our problem.
Me: Hmmmm I guess titles don't mean anything to Sony too.
[Long pause.]
Sony: Is there anything else I could help you with?
Me: Do you have any way I could reach Mr. Tretton?
Sony: Sir I can't help you with this, anything in EGM does not pertain to Sony.
Me: Alright I will get a hold of EGM and get my money from you guys. Sorry for calling you, but I thought you could help me since Mr. Tretton worked for Sony and this is a Sony phone number.
Sony: Is there anything else I could help you with?
Me: If I can't get Mr. Tretton's number then that is all.
Sony: Thank for you calling sir and have a nice day.
Me: You too, thanks.
[End conversation]
If anyone has time to kill I think you should call Sony, it's funny.
Also, this quote just absolutely cracks me up. The best game on our console is also the highest rated! But lets not compare it to any other game, lets just pretend that there's only the PS3 where Resistance, which wasn't exactly good to begin with, doesn't have any competition at all.
No matter what that is an awesome PA strip!!!
HAHAHA
what the hell is this guys number. the gamestop by my house has SEVEN. count them, SEVEN ps3's on the shelves. that $4200 that i just got by asking a question.
BOOYAKASHA!!!
First: Wireless Internet didn't work.
Second: Would delete saved files.
Third: So far so good, but what he's told me a lot of the PS2 games will freeze.
Right now developers are switching sides and they are losing delopers confidence.