Will Stringer -ever- shut his mouth?

[JTK]

Originally Posted by Elandyll

I swear, the guy is a walking PR catastrophe, for the PS3, and Sony's stock in general.

His latest interview:

"Wii's business model is superior to our own"

"The PS3 will not recoup its losses in my lifetime" (after Sony had said a few months aggo that we were reaching equilibrium/ profits and more recently thatthe PS3 has a 10 year life cycle).

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/31607/Stri...ferior-to-Wiis

His naivete is somewhat touching, but the guy is a rickin nightmare for Sony's PR image. At his level you might think that he'd know that all evidences and truths are not always good to say, specially to journalists. As per the "not in my lifetime", it is way to clear cut for a product (PS3) that will only likely bloom at end of 2008/ 2009.

Stringer is a master of the feint and understatement,to say the least.

This is the same Stringer that was out there in October and November of last year talking about format war stalemates and such while clearly the Warner deal that culimated in January was well underway behind closed doors. First week of January it was all over.

Think about it.

And he's right: The Wii is kicking Sony and MS's butts sales wise. Nintendo is the only company NOT stuck in that old model of: "Sell hardware at a loss and hope to make up loss on software sales" which, on its face, is not a good business model at all.

Nintendo has been making money hand over fist on both hardware and software from day one.