Sony VP, Jack Tretton thinking?!

Alright guys, this is another one of those “What was he thinking?!” moments caught red-handed. You see, according to Sony VP Jack Tretton the, Nintendo DS sales have been trailing PSP sales for the last 17 months. That would all be well and good, if it wasn’t for some cold-hard statistics suggesting otherwise. And well, those statistics suggest that in the last month, the DS outsold the PSP in North America by more than a whopping 130,000 units! Surprised? We’ve got a bigger one…In Japan, in the last week itself, the DS outsold the PSP by 108,368 units!

That’s not all. You see, according to Tretton, “[Nintendo and their DS] are appealing to the same audience that Game Boy has always appealed to. They’re potentially losing some of their core audience and they’re not really expanding beyond that, and we think we’re expanding into a completely new audience as we did with PlayStation … we’ll dip down to the younger consumer eventually, and we’ll ultimately appeal to that vastly Earth wide audience we carved out with the original PlayStation.”

Having die-hard support for the product of the company you work for is totally understandable; “Love thy own” as our ol’ gramps used to say. So, time to hear what the most important input of all: what do you (as consumers) think?

Alright guys, this is another one of those “What was he thinking?!” moments caught red-handed. You see, according to Sony VP Jack Tretton the, Nintendo DS sales have been trailing PSP sales for the last 17 months. That would all be well and good, if it wasn’t for some cold-hard statistics suggesting otherwise. And well, those statistics suggest that in the last month, the DS outsold the PSP in North America by more than a whopping 130,000 units! Surprised? We’ve got a bigger one…In Japan, in the last week itself, the DS outsold the PSP by 108,368 units!

That’s not all. You see, according to Tretton, “[Nintendo and their DS] are appealing to the same audience that Game Boy has always appealed to. They’re potentially losing some of their core audience and they’re not really expanding beyond that, and we think we’re expanding into a completely new audience as we did with PlayStation … we’ll dip down to the younger consumer eventually, and we’ll ultimately appeal to that vastly Earth wide audience we carved out with the original PlayStation.”

Having die-hard support for the product of the company you work for is totally understandable; “Love thy own” as our ol’ gramps used to say. So, time to hear what the most important input of all: what do you (as consumers) think?