Increasingly desperate Sony has a new plan to save PS3
June 9, 2007
An increasingly desperate Sony has a new plan to save its floundering PS3 games console — cut jobs. This new plan is substantially different to its old plan. Now, instead of cutting jobs in Europe, it’s cutting them in the US.
Officially, Sony Computer Entertainment has cut jobs in the US in a bid to become more competitive and to “adjust to the industry”, according to a Sony spokesperson in Japan. The spokesperson said there were no plans to cut jobs in Japan.
“The goal is to reform the organization,” the spokesperson told AP.
29-year-old Julio Bonis is usually writing serious medical research papers like “Bioinformatics as support for the new pharmacogenetic strategies.” But this week he had a new message.
Sony just doesn’t seem to get it. First the low end PS3 doesn’t sell so they nix it. Then it says at some point we’ll get a PS3 with a larger hard drive and if that isn’t enough, Sony is now offering rewards to managers of Gamestop/EB if the store can push the PS3 on customers to its satisfaction. 
There was big news from Sony today about the PlayStation 3. They almost didn’t not announce a major price break. Hooray? 
Just released Japanese sales figures seem to confirm analysts’ fears that Sony will not meet its PlayStation 3 (PS3) sales target of 11 million consoles this year. The same figures also reveal that the Wii continues to dominate the Japanese console scene. 
You’ve run a lot of mazes, and eaten a lot of dots — but you made it. You’re in today’s Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship, Presented by Quiznos. Now what? 
It seems that Microsoft can’t catch a break these days what with Vista still failing miserably and apparently so are XBOX 360′s. Now don’t get me wrong, I own a XBOX 360 and I’ve had it for about a year with ZERO issues. There are those XBOX 360 owners that are perfectly happy (like me) and there are others who have gone through five or six units and even then all their issues are not fixed. We’ve 
Are PS3 price cuts on the horizon? At least one site reported no — that Sony nixed the possibility. But a careful read of Sony’s comments reveals a slightly different response: they just didn’t say ‘yes’. And there’s a big difference… 