Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Based on reports of what's circulating through the blogosphere, video consumers are mighty dissatisfied with Blu-ray and gamers are unhappy that PS3 has upped the price of the console by including Blu-ray. Then of course, there's all of those stories about how Sony couldn't meet its production targets. In 2007, when PS3 stocks are plentiful, they'll eat their words.
The few hundred thousand of console units Sony
has brought to market in the US and Japan so far have sold out within
minutes. The Japanese games market leader believes it will starting
biting huge chunks out of the new generation consoles market once it is
able to get sufficient supplies into stores.
Meanwhile, an under reported fact is that the biggest selling console
on the market last month was not the Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360 but the PS2.
According to research group Cymfony, consumers are turning away from
Blu-ray, based on research of the sentiments of chatter in thousands of
blogs. However, Sony appears unfazed by the Cymfony findings.
There is currently a huge campaign underway from HD DVD advocates to
push the standard ahead of Blu-ray. One group, calling itself HD Now
Online has created a website calling for petitions to pressure movie
studios to get behind HD DVD and move away from Blu-ray.
While hard core gamers may not be pleased that Sony has added to the
cost of PS3 consoles by including Blu-ray players, HD DVD advocates are
no doubt even more displeased. Sony has created a strategy for getting
more Blu-ray players into the hands of consumers within weeks than
standalone HD DVD purveyors could do in months to date.
What's more, by leveraging Blu-ray off the games console market, Sony
has been able to reduce the cost of Blu-ray players to equivalent
prices to that of HD DVD. It's almost a given that PS3 will be the
biggest selling Blu-ray player in 2007 and will quite likely outsell
all the standalone HD DVD players combined.
Whether Sony succeeds in meeting its target of 6 million PS3 units
shipped by March 2007 is really missing the point. As the continued
sales of PS2 attests, the consoles race is a long haul business and
Sony appears determined to stick it out to the end.
David Bass
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