• XTornado@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    To me it means what it says… They had some expectations and they didn’t reach it.

    At the end I guess is open to interpretation, but expectations sometimes are out of reality… some times they go higher either to sell it to inversors or they simply over estimate…

    I wouldn’t go as far as reading as them saying it didn’t sell well, more like they expected more…

    But Ok I admit it could be considered as such…

    • MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      As someone who deals with business analytics/ budgeting, “not meeting sales expectations” is a 1:1 translation to “bad sales.” Sony has R&D, manufacturing, and other “static” costs that need to be recouped with more unit sales–decent isn’t enough when you’re balancing everything around great.

      (This translates to much of peak-covid -> “post”-covid business decision backlash. So much short-term thinking based on the economy being temporarily on crack with everyone at home).