Well yes.. people do get paid "big money" to make important decisions. As a financial analyst, I get paid a lot of money to anaylze companies. I can tell you from the years that I have been tearing into various companies, conglomerates, and government agencies, that there is often times very little relationship between what someone gets paid and the validity of their decision making prowness. I have been continually amazed at the complete lack of communication and understanding between divisions that many large companies suffer from and the poor decisions that are the outcome from ignorance, arrogance, and/or indifference.
Granted, I'm not in the inner circle of Sony, nor am I privy to their internal management reports. However, I was speaking as a consumer... asking the question... not stating a "they should."
From my standpoint, the way I see it as a consumer... they have one of the best bd players available in the PS3. However... there's two buying segments that they are losing based on my own observations. The first are people like me, who may be more tradionalist in their purchases and don't want that style of equipement (we can argue about the reasonability of that in a different thread) and the other segment of those who simply do not grasp or make the connection that they need a gaming console to have the best player. To me, from where I stand, that's easily solved by simply packaging the same player in two versions. Companies do that literally all the time. Auto manufactures have done that for years with tremendous success as have many many others.
My question was simple... what is preventing Sony from doing the same and taking full advantage of economies of scale and shared resources. They're not because gaming and a/v electronics are basically treated as entirely seperate companies within Sony.
I'm not saying they're stupid... quite the contrary, my assumption was that they in fact do have good reason... I just wasn't aware of it and was looking for possible reasons.
If it turns out that the new players, the BD350 and 550 are not comparable with the PS3 in performance, I will look elsewhere for a player.
