Posts tagged Howard Stringer 
Howard Stringer looks into "refining" the cost of PS3
If you want someone to take machete in hand and slice through the vine-ridden jungle of PR spin and get to the heart of darkness (took about ten minutes to hack our own way to that dynamite metaphor), it would be Sony CEO Howard Stringer. He says that there is no question consumers want a price drop...
Record loss for Sony predicted by Bloomberg
Sony could be posting a net loss of ¥75.8 billion (US $630 million), its biggest in four years, in the fiscal quarter that ended March 31, according to Bloomberg. The financial publication took a median estimate culled from 11 surveyed analysts. Five of the analysts expect the games division, ho...
Stringer: Euro PlayStation 3 approaching 800,000 sold
Speaking to the Financial Times, Sony's chief executive, Sir Howard Stringer, says that PlayStation 3 sales are close to reaching 800,000 units in Europe after the system's March 23rd launch. Narrowing it down, Stringer says, "I think [in] the first two days in the UK, £100m ($199m) revenue ch...
Howard Stringer jumps for joy thanks to European launch
Unless Sir Howard Stringer recently woke up from some kind of coma, he should've been out and about proclaiming his hoorays a few weeks ago -- not now. That aside, he sat down to talk about his impressions on the European launch and most of it was glowing praise. Citing around 800,000 units sold in ...
Sir Howard Stringer speaks about Sony's profit... or loss
We know you secretly love the business side of things -- plus, there's absolutely nothing going on in the gaming side of the PS3 right now. Well, not nothing, but nothing that's really "liek OMG gotta blog 'bout 'dis yo". Exclamation point. It would be really weird if actual punctuation didn't exist...
Howard Stringer says: "PS3 = creative success!"
I just thought of something random. In the quote above, there is an equal sign in quotations... but what does an equal sign sound like? It's not "equal sign" because that's the name of the symbol. Wow, that's like, so totally way deep. Anyway, onto news. Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer (he's knighted,...
PS3 to make or break Sony forevermore
More recycled analysis brought to you by Bloomberg. A key point to keep in mind: Sony predicts a 5-year recoup for losses due to the PS3's manufacturing costs and price point. That's going to hurt, especially since the average console life is around five years (a few exceptions noted). Masafumi Oshi...
Sony gets double-taxed, PS3 sheds a tear
Sony, what's going on with all these tax issues? Friday, Japanese tax authorities commanded Sony Corp. to pay an additional 27.9 billion yen (about $243 million) relating to Sony's game consoles and other operations in the U.S. after finding mistakes in old tax files. Sony will write up a protest cl...
Stringer says PS3 is "future proof."
According to 1Up, Sony head honcho, Howard Stringer, claimed yesterday that the PS3 is "future-proof." Speaking of the 360, Stringer said that it was a "cheaper transitional" product. Stringer re-emphasizes the idea that PS3 is going to magically break the console cycle and last for d...
Stringer: The Xbox 360 is an "obsession"
Well, you know what they say about what to do when you have nothing nice to say ... erm, say that the competing gaming platform (in this case, the 360) is an "obsession"? That's exactly what Sony CEO Howard Stringer had to offer in an interview with Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal recently....
