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Game over for PlayStation's Kutaragi
Posted on December 1, 2006 2:42 PM
Sony's Ken Kutaragi, the legend behind the PlayStation who hinted the new PS3 would cost more than a yummy can of Beluga caviar, just found out what a screwed-up product loss costs. Yup, Sony pulled the plug on Gamemaster Ken, and kicked him upstairs where he can do the least amount of damage.
The PS3 was going to cost a lot of the green stuff, everyone knew that. Sony swore up down and sideways it would drop 2 million shiny new consoles around the world at launch. They might have 200,000 in North America before the end of the year, thanks to Sony's insistence that
Those fancy Blu-Ray components were harder to find than humility backstage at a U2 concert. And unfortunately for Ken, his big mouth was more than noteworthy...
The bungling of the launch hasn't worked in Ken Kutaragi's favour either. The outspoken worldwide head of PlayStation at Sony was this week replaced by Kaz Hirai, who until now has lead Sony's console charge in the US.I'm enjoying just sitting back and watching people shell out big bucks for the PS3 on eBay and Craigslist. They get to find all the bugs that Sony's QA missed, and then try to get Sony's "legendary" customer service to fix their PS3.
Kutaragi's competence was called into question recently by a report that said he had been tardy in negotiating for exclusive games for the PS3.
You know it's a mess when a cluster-cluck like this makes Microsoft look good. They might actually sell some 360s this year.
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