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“It’s a premium product, so therefore it costs a premium price, and that does give us issues in terms of the expected sell-through that analysts and the media want,” said Ray Maguire, wearing some serious boots, Sony Computer Entertainment, “but actually when you look at it in isolation: close to a million units in a year which is really tough, at a premium price, actually shows that’s a great number.”

Sony PR is like the GOP. Always on message, no matter what, perennially full of shit even as their world burns.

Lazy developers continue to blame used games for their problems

Enough with the utter bullshit. Seriously. Game developers are like addicts these days. “Used games are the problem, that’s why we’re having all these layoffs! Online games are the answer!”

Somehow, they still continue to think eliminating used game sales, as well as shifting to downloads, will miraculously save their distorted, top-heavy, audience size unsupported hardcore business models.

Meanwhile, the used car market continues to do diddly shit to the new car market. Related: Why don’t I see Nintendo developers complaining about used games?

Analyst parties like it's 2006

I seriously thought my RSS feeds were screwy this afternoon. I mean, another analyst saying that this is going to be the year for the PS3? But no, a few double takes and a face palm later, there is OTX’s Nick Williams being a total douche. When he’s completely wrong and we look back at this in 2010 from atop the mountain of discarded PS3s, will we at least be able to say he was fired? Probably not. He’ll probably have “senior analyst” status by that time because, you know, in this industry we actually reward video game analysts who are wrong more than they’re right.