Ken Kutaragi announcing the ps3 will be "too cheap"

[mnbvjifhgtge]

thats right Ken Kutaragi the "father of playstation" has either been smoking wacky backy or has simply gone insane by making the statment that the ps3 will be too cheap.

Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi, known as the "father of the PlayStation," has made some crazy comments in the past, but his latest quote on Japanese website IT Media regarding the PS3 is almost too much to be believed.

After proclaiming that Sony's next-gen console would be "expensive" many months ago, Kutaragi this week went so far as to say that the PS3 is actually not expensive enough. "It's probably too cheap," he said. Apparently, he thinks that playing a PS3 can be compared to eating at a fine restaurant—you get what you pay for. Here are his words of wisdom, as translated by consumer website IGN:

"This is the PS3 price. Expensive, cheap -- we don't want you to think of it in terms of game machines. Because the PS3 is like nothing else.

"For instance, is it not nonsense to compare the charge for dinner at the company cafeteria with dinner at a fine restaurant? It's a question of what you can do with that game machine. If you can have an amazing experience, we believe price is not a problem.

"When we announced the PlayStation price, it was said to be expensive. Same for the PlayStation 2. However, when released, both had sales that were unthinkable for previous game machines. This is because both offered experiences that could not be had on previous game machines.

"With the PS3, you can have next generation game experiences that could previously not be experienced -- things like next generation graphics and various services via the network. And, as with the PS and PS2, we believe people who like games will, without question, purchase it."

Kutaragi also took the opportunity to address the launch shipment figures Sony is targeting—2 million units at launch, 4 million by year-end, 6 million by March 2007. Some in the industry have been skeptical that Sony can pull this off, but Kutaragi insisted that barring natural disasters Sony would definitely meet this goal.

"Of course, this is a number that we announced having made sure we can definitely prepare it. There is the possibility of unexpected problems like earthquake or theft, so I won't say it's absolute, but if this type of trouble does not occur, there's no problem with this number," he said.
http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/view.php?id=1490

[JonJon]

Interesting...

[Billay]

wacky backy indeed =)

[Bear-Max]

No way will 4 million consoles sell by the end of the year. Just getting that many made and shipped will be a big enough challenge.