With the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Marketplace, Microsoft is taking the first steps toward that goal. But while gamers and technophiles watch Microsoft, Sony is quietly pursuing the same dreams -- and perhaps more effectively. Skeptics viewed the Xbox as Microsoft's Trojan horse into our living rooms, an analogy that may very well be true.
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"My first MMORPG was Star Wars Galaxies. Before SWG, I had stuck mostly to competitive First Person Shooter games because in my college days playing and working on fantasy based MUD's, I knew the MMORPG could be a dangerous thing when it comes to time investments."
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Sony's Phil Harrison, head of worldwide studios for Sony, has expressed his frustration that the company's Japanese division was too slow at accepting the ideas of social gaming – a market now dominated by rival manufacturer Nintendo and its Wii console.
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Make no mistakes about it, Sony is not joking around when it comes down to first party releases. Having come off a solid holiday line up, including blockbusters like Uncharted, Warhawk, and Ratchet and Clank, SCEA has wasted no time in announcing their early 2008 offerings
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Financial indicators and strategic plans show Sony selling off Cell processor production lines and cutting research budgets for the Cell's successor. Could this be an early sign that Sony is looking to leave the game console business?
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Another day another competing HD format. This is interesting only because they will be introducing HD discs with 30gb storage on players debuting at $150 on Amazon. Apparently as it uses Red lazer the prices are even cheaper than HD DVD. All this is great shame they came so late to the party because this would of made this format war very messy.
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Capcom expects Sony to cut the price of the PlayStation 3 again before the end of the year. Speaking to Reuters, the Japanese publisher's chief financial officer said he expected PS2 users to adopt the PS3 gradually. "The number of PS2 users is still growing and a shift to the PS3 is on the back burner," commented Kazuhiko Abe. "But, the price has been cut once and it is likely to be cut again towards the end of the year." "I expect the [PS3's] installed base to grow gradually," he said. Sony cut the price of the 60GB PS3 to USD 499 earlier this week, with SCEA boss Jack Tretton claiming double sales figures for the home console off the back of the move.
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The new line of PlayStation centric apparel will be sold through the website IVGear.com, apparently. The first games to be made available on the merchandise are as followed; SOCOM; Jak; Twisted Metal; Ratchet & Clank; Gran Turismo; God of War; Resistance; PaRappaTheRapper; LittleBigPlanet; Heavenly Sword; and Uncharted. There will also be apparel simply featuring the PlayStation logo.No release day has been set for the apparel's release.
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I think this is interesting for the statistics it throws out there.
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As the Blu-ray camp celebrates the sale of the millionth Blu-ray disc movie, Pocket-lint chats to Rachel Banin, product manager of the home video business group at Sony to get an industry insider's perspective of what this means for the format war as a whole, and her thoughts on the future for Blu-ray and HD DVD, including an interesting take on Paramount's current stance.
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