Top Games Industry Blunders of 2007

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Originally Posted by gamingtoday

Doing a top 10 list of blunders from the past year automatically means you’re going to omit countless incidents that are very worthy of being discussed in the conversation, but Next Gen has narrowed down the list to their top 10 blunders of 2007.
Crowd favorites like Nintendo’s apparent disbelief that the Wii would pull an Energizer Bunny and keep on selling and selling, the horrible bargain that was the Xbox 360 Elite, and Jack Tretton’s claim that he would give $1,200 to anyone who could find a PS3 sitting on store shelves in North America for more than five minutes. [Only registered users can see links. ] was quick to set up a retirement fund based purely on Tretton’s claim.
Of the ten finalists, my personal favorite came in at #8, which was regarding Sony’s many different PlayStation 3 SKUs, just barely edging out Shane Kim’s disbelief that RE5 for 360 was announced prior to E3 ‘07. All those PS3 SKUs have been released in spite of the fact that Phil Harrison once stated, “I think we wouldn’t take that [multiple SKU] strategy. We wouldn’t’ want to create confusion,” in response to the 360’s (at the time) two SKU setup.
As the image above outlines, that didn’t exactly pan out.
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