John Taylor
John Taylor
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I think its safe to say that Sony is going for the broadest possible audience you can imagine, ... For the year 2000, PlayStation has a pretty big window of opportunity. It is unclear at this point if there is any serious competition.
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Opening price points are still where they were. In other words, you still launch at $49, but after a few weeks go by, demand dries up. So you're not seeing games hold the price point as long.
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The price point is certainly an impressive value statement, ... I think the going assumption is you have to pay about $10 a month to be involved in a gaming community like this, so to offer a one time fee of $49.99 is going to make it a lot less challenging for kids or teens to get permission to play. I think it's a key price point position.
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In the past, the perception that something has a premium price point has led to the demise of the platform. You can look at Sega as an example of that. You can look at 3DO as an example. Microsoft is going to be incredibly sensitive to that.
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I thought something else should have been done at the time. But I'm not a medical doctor.
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I think we ought to assume that $59.99 is going to be the place we start for game prices,
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It is one thing to say you're going to introduce online gaming, but it is another thing to say it's really fun to play with, ... Just because a console's Web-enabled doesn't mean it's fun to play with. Somebody's got to come up with an online game that people want to play.
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I think Sony will do a price cut in the fall. Now, if Xbox were to catch fire and look like it's going sell 5 or 6 million units, then Sony may change it's mind, but I don't think that's going to happen.
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Japan is probably becoming a bit more influential in the day-to-day management decisions at Nintendo of America. It seems that might have been going on for a little while.
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We are treating it like a big deal. We have fought hard to establish credibility in the enterprise so we're taking a very aggressive approach in addressing this.
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Our council needs to know what we are agreeing with down the road. I don't see how anybody can work with that agreement.
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It affected (network) traffic going to and coming from the West Coast and other Western parts of the U.S..
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