Hello

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Sony charged with fair-trade violation  (Read 1104 times)

Offline Black Samurai
  • RAMEN, BITCHES!!!
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5073
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://www.zombo.com
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« on: August 04, 2001, 10:53:53 PM »
Quote
By Reuters
August 2, 2001, 4:25 a.m. PT
TOKYO--Japan\'s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said on Thursday that Sony broke fair-trade rules by pressuring retailers to sell software for its PlayStation video game machines at set prices and through predetermined channels.

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), wholly owned by the electronics giant, also hampered free distribution by directing wholesalers to sell only to retail outlets and for retailers to only sell to consumers, the FTC said.

It told the company to immediately halt the practice.
Sony Computer accepted the ruling. ``We respect the FTC\'s stance and will make sure that our policy of not setting resale conditions on wholesalers for PlayStation hardware and software is observed,\'\' it said.

Sony, facing the launch of rival game consoles later this year, recently cut the domestic recommended retail price of its PlayStation 2 game console to $282 from $320.

Last year, 17,040 software titles for PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 were released. Sony expects the same number of titles to come out this year.

Before the FTC\'s announcement, shares in Sony rose 4.84 percent, in line with other high-tech shares that ended higher in the Tokyo Stock Market.

The high-tech recovery pushed the Nikkei 225 average up 3.68 percent


Thoughts?
Logged
[SIZE=\"4\"][COLOR=\"Red\"]I\'m sorry, That\'s not a hair question.[/COLOR][/SIZE]
Offline EmperorRob
  • Mr Sexual Harassment
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 3932
  • Karma: +10/-0
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2001, 07:57:44 AM »
Think that will have any affect on the U.S.?
Logged
This is America and I can still pay for sex with pennies
Offline Ashford
  • -=Short-Fuse Mod=-
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 3184
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2001, 09:12:58 AM »
PS1 and 2 combined last year to release more than 17,000 titles???

:confused:
Logged
July 2002: If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. Enron, $16.50 left. Worldcom, $5.00 left. If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser beer one year ago, drank it all and turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00. Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

Offline Living-In-Clip

  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 15131
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2001, 09:40:47 AM »
Quote
Originally posted by Ashford
PS1 and 2 combined last year to release more than 17,000 titles???

:confused:


That number has to be off. I didn\'t think they made that many Army Men games....
Logged
Offline Black Samurai
  • RAMEN, BITCHES!!!
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5073
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://www.zombo.com
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2001, 10:17:20 AM »
Quote
Originally posted by EmperorRob
Think that will have any affect on the U.S.?
Doubt it. Although they do like to keep their prices high in the states to make their products seem more valuable than they are.
Logged
[SIZE=\"4\"][COLOR=\"Red\"]I\'m sorry, That\'s not a hair question.[/COLOR][/SIZE]
Offline EmperorRob
  • Mr Sexual Harassment
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 3932
  • Karma: +10/-0
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2001, 12:38:24 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Living-In-Clip


That number has to be off. I didn\'t think they made that many Army Men games....
YEah you forgot about
[list=1]
  • Army Men: cross-dressing for war
  • Army Men: The VA Hospital adventures
  • Army Men: Project Hile Hitler
  • Army Men: Project green nutsac
  • Army Men: Attack of the Tans
  • Army Men: anus wars
  • Army Men: Hit the X button and you win
  • Army Men: Greatest Hits (which is a blank CD)
    • [/list=1]
Logged
This is America and I can still pay for sex with pennies

Offline Living-In-Clip

  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 15131
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2001, 12:52:38 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by EmperorRob
YEah you forgot about
[list=1]

  • Army Men: Greatest Hits (which is a blank CD)
    • [/list=1] [/B]


Hmm. It must be manufactored at the same place FFT was.
:D
Logged
Offline Ryu
  • Greatest Detective
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 3990
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://altimus-labs.com/hawk/
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2001, 01:17:07 PM »
Quote
Army Men: Hit the X button and you win


Hey, wasn\'t that manufactured by Nintendo? ;)
Logged
Don\'t you ever touch my cape.
-Ryu
Offline METALGEAR007
  • Member

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 616
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2001, 02:45:24 PM »
ha ha ha nice guys made me laugh:D
Logged
whats a blonde and the bermuda triangle got in common ? - they both swallow loads of seamen! ha ha ha
Offline Toxical
  • Evil Devil Master

  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 2061
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2001, 06:02:29 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by EmperorRob
YEah you forgot about
[list=1]
  • Army Men: cross-dressing for war
  • Army Men: The VA Hospital adventures
  • Army Men: Project Hile Hitler
  • Army Men: Project green nutsac
  • Army Men: Attack of the Tans
  • Army Men: anus wars
  • Army Men: Hit the X button and you win
  • Army Men: Greatest Hits (which is a blank CD)
    • [/list=1] [/B]


LOL  :bounce:
Logged
Offline AlteredBeast
  • Old Member
    \"Knows his stuff,
    and yours too!\"

  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 3241
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://www.sega.com
Sony charged with fair-trade violation
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2001, 06:06:21 PM »
why does this scream Nintendo Entertainment System to me?


Eric Jacob
Logged
A funny gesture.
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk