I'm lazy, so no Newshound format bastardising for now. Might change it later.
"Michael Pachter has expressed regret for branding the PSP go as a rip-off earlier this week.
The industry analyst was particularly outspoken about the handheld's price point, saying that "$249 is too much. Period," in an interview with Geoff Keighley.
'I sincerely regret the choice of words,' Pachter said in a statement on Industry Gamers. 'I do NOT think that Sony is doing anything nefarious in choosing their pricing strategy... They are pricing at a point that positions the PSP Go competitively with the iPod Touch, and the PSP Go arguably has much more value than the Apple product.'
The retraction was made while Kaz Hirai crushed Pachter's particulars in a vice, a fact that we have just made up."
A bit of a double back, don't you think? Or was this expected?
Source: IGN [http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/994/994178p1.html]
"Michael Pachter has expressed regret for branding the PSP go as a rip-off earlier this week.
The industry analyst was particularly outspoken about the handheld's price point, saying that "$249 is too much. Period," in an interview with Geoff Keighley.
'I sincerely regret the choice of words,' Pachter said in a statement on Industry Gamers. 'I do NOT think that Sony is doing anything nefarious in choosing their pricing strategy... They are pricing at a point that positions the PSP Go competitively with the iPod Touch, and the PSP Go arguably has much more value than the Apple product.'
The retraction was made while Kaz Hirai crushed Pachter's particulars in a vice, a fact that we have just made up."
A bit of a double back, don't you think? Or was this expected?
Source: IGN [http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/994/994178p1.html]
