Sony PS3 Not Selling As Well As Expected – CFO Prefers To Focus On The Positive

Last Thursday Sony’s Game Division posted an operating loss of $237 million. The company’s CFO, Nobuyuki Oneda, had the following to say:

“Sales of the PS3 have risen but we booked losses due to our strategic decision to price it below the (production) cost. Actually, because the number of units sold was not as high as we hoped, the loss was better than our original expectation”.

Not since “So you’re saying I’ve got a chance” courtesy of Dumb and Dumber, have we heard such an optimistic and yet ridiculously far fetched response.

That is like saying “Sargent, we are getting our asses kicked out there, but since most of our soldiers are getting killed before they get a chance to fire off a round we are saving a ton of money on ammo!” Completely absurd.

Source: CVG