Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 08 January 2008 07:08 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 07 January 2008 18:46 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> PS3 Holiday Sales Total 1.2 Million
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Sony Corp. said Monday that PlayStation 3 game machine sales totaled 1.2
>>>>>| million in North America during the key holiday season, boosting the
>>>>>| strength of the company's Blu-ray video format because the PlayStation 3
>>>>>| also works as a Blu-ray player.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080106/japan_sony_playstation.html?.v=4
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It would seem that Sony are emerging with a highly successful sales
>>>> approach. Personally, I'm not convinced that the public are all that
>>>> interested in even higher definition video, they've never really been
>>>> all that bothered by video, or audio, quality, in the past.
>>>
>>> The higher definition is for Hollywood. It helps when they can make old
>>> content 'expire' (no longer be playable). They are drying people up, so to
>>> speak, and people then have to go out and get some more. Same situation with
>>> Microsoft Office...
>>>
>>
>> I'm sure they'll be looking forward to reselling all that same content.
>> In a shopping mall in Canada over xmas, I saw lots of blue-ray films of
>> "old favourites" such as the terminator series. Why would you buy those
>> /again/, I wonder?
>
> Another industry worth accusing for this tactic is the fashion industry.
>
To a point, yes, but at least when you buy something new, you /really/
get to buy it and wear it and use it. It's yours. I can't see sense
and rationality ever adding much to the (human) fertilisation game...
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