{"id":30659,"date":"2012-01-12T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T13:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30659"},"modified":"2012-02-02T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:28:29","slug":"sony-unfazed-by-ps-vita-launch-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30659-sony-unfazed-by-ps-vita-launch-fears","title":{"rendered":"Sony unfazed by PS Vita launch fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\">PlayStation<\/a> EU boss, Jim Ryan, has dismissed the claims that the <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19922-Playstation-Vita-(PSVita)\">PS Vita<\/a>&#8216;s rocky start in the Japanese market spells gloom and doom for the portable&#8217;s success elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is dangerous to the point of impossible to take any experience from the Japanese market and try and extrapolate it, and propose upon what will happen in Europe or North America,&#8221; said Ryan in an interview with MCV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The markets are now just so different, I actually think they are diverging to a greater extent than they were different in the past \u2013 if that\u2019s even possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to emphasise that they&#8217;re more focused on stakeholder reactions over in the EU, and that there&#8217;s &#8220;considerable demand&#8221; &#8211; so they&#8217;ll be supplying to meet that demand come 22 February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>So you see, if it bombs, it&#8217;s actually <em>your<\/em> fault for being so demanding.<\/p>\n<p>Just saying.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"MCV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/read\/sony-dismisses-vita-launch-fears\/089676\" target=\"_blank\">MCV<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t compare the Japanese and European markets, bro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":26273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[31,903,1870,527,71],"class_list":["post-30659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-launch","tag-playstation","tag-ps-vita","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30661,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659\/revisions\/30661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}