David Reeves shatters the strong rumours that Sony plan to cut the price of the PlayStation 3 hardware in Europe this Spring and goes on to explain exactly why.
"No, we are not going to go down in price on PS3 – neither are we going to go down in price on PS3 in spring time either. Absolutely not, whatever you might have heard to the contrary. Our strategy is very much value added."
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
This looks like a great way to play.
Rocksmith+, the award winning music-learning app that teaches you guitar and piano with thousands of hit songs, is coming to PlayStation and Steam on June 6, and is available to wishlist now on both platforms.
"The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished.
This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Others across the Xbox organization have been told that more cuts are on the way.
Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said.
Game Pass has not seen the massive growth that Xbox boss Phil Spencer may have been hoping for."
"Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said"
So what you're saying is...you bought all these studios and you guys can't run them.
Jesus.
Reports are suggesting that Game Pass will be getting a price hike soon and that Call of Duty may not be added to the day one offering. I honestly have a hard time believing this but it does beg the question why exactly did GP fail? I think the answer is that it just didn't get the growth that it anticipated. Jim was right but I wish he wasn't because at the end of the day, its gamers, devs and other front-line workers who have to absorb the blow for Spencer and team's miscalculations.
For all the armchair executives who were calling for Sony to release its big-budget AAA games on PS+, the same exact thing would have happened at PlayStation. Game Pass has killed Xbox. Congrats.
Here's hoping he is not in the loop. The PS3 does need a price cut of some kind next year.
ok, ok but you better do it before 09 ends, otherwise war is over.
"We’re relying on the fact that the industry will keep growing and WHILE we might have A SMALLER SHARE of the market we will have an overall INCREASE in sales. So the value added strategy is to continue for some years to come."
So they are willing to lose market share this generation, knowing that increased competition will drive the market more universally causing a higher profit rate potentially. So even with a smaller market share, they could potentially profit alot more than last generation.
But wouldn't a lower price PS3 increase the rate of market adoption of next-gen consoles? And wouldn't that mean an even BIGGER increase of sales in comparison to a smaller market share?
It seems they want to profit ASAP, but that's assuming PS3 sales will go up in 2009. I hope the games will be enough to make that happen, because that price wont be attracting crowds. But here's hoping it will see a price cut later in 2009.
War was lost when Sony revealed that preposterously ugly looking ps3 to the Public.
then when the NPD gets released you look at each other in amazement as to why your not ahead of the wii and 360. news flash sony you have to offer a price cut even if its not on the high end models the lower spec ones atleast, your competitors are rutless and all these silly mistakes your making will only make it hard for you to become top this gen unless youve given up hope in achieving that goal
PS: Home will not sell console's so you can forget that idea