With a rumored $399 40GB Playstation 3 on the way, a cheaper device hitting shelves in Japan and UK, and announcements of an all-out price blitz this holiday season, is Sony really as desperate as it looks?
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Investing in the Cell, investing in the SPE gives you no long-term benefits. There's nothing there that you're going to apply to anything else. You're not going to gain anything except a hatred of the architecture they've created...
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Sony said it will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the HD DVD camp heats up.
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Q&A with Andrew House, President of SCEE... At E3, Sony impressed attendees with its new PSPgo and Motion Sensor hardware, plus a raft of new software. And now new SCEE boss Andrew House tells Michael French that he plans to back that all up with a renewed focus on network games…
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President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, David Reeves, has said that the priority for the PlayStation business in 2009 is to finally make a profit.
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" Sony Online Entertainment is working on massively multiplayer shooter The Agency for both PlayStation 3 and PC, and EP Matt Wilson talks to Gamasutra on SOE's wish to have players on both platforms interact -- also revealing the three major issues that might prevent it."
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Sony has said that to continue growing it's PlayStation business, the division will focus on non-game content and services, combined with further networking capabilities across all of it's key products. The focus is part of Sony's plan to be "the leading global provider of networked consumer electronics" by the end of the 2010 fiscal year, ending March 31, 2011.
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Today’s announcement sees Sony Ericsson putting gaming at the heart of its latest phone release. Targeted firmly at a youth audience, the F305 with Motion Gaming lets users control games with the flick of a wrist or the swing of an arm, and then see the results straightaway on the screen. Using advanced motion sensor technology, the phone can, for example, follow your actions to imitate bowling or casting a fishing line.
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Sony's latest effort is a package of hardware and software called PlayTV that will go on sale in Europe later this year -- and presumably the United States at some point, too. The system will let users record TV shows to their PS3s You can then either watch the shows and movies on your television connected to your PS3 or wirelessly broadcast the videos to your portable PlayStation Portable anywhere in the world that has a Wi-Fi hotspot.
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Twenty years ago, Harrison took early steps into the games business as a graphic artist and game designer, working for hire in the flourishing UK development scene. By the time he became one of the most public faces of the PlayStation, he was a seasoned executive - but Harrison's roots in development have always been evident, and have always made him into a distinctive part of the Sony machine.
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