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AAG Rumor: EA's unhappiness with PSN outage could lead to Sony reducing PS3 price

The Playstation Network being down so long is causing headaches for Sony left, right and center. With pressure coming from all angles whether it be the gamers or publishers and developers, could Sony be forced to reduce the price of the PS3? Find out what All Age Gaming have learned from an anonymous source.

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M-Easy4753d ago

IQ points were lost for the dozen or so people who read this dribble.

xTruthx4753d ago

lol at article, EA needs sony more than sony needs EA

Laxman2164753d ago

That is complete rubbish. Do you realise how much money EA would make if, for example they were console-exclusive entirely for Xbox? The PS3 would die out in a few years, there would be no more competition... Ever.

CraigGOA4753d ago

Agree Laxman216, pretty much what EA did with Sega and the Dreamcast. People forget quickly I guess.

xTruthx4753d ago

Who do you think gets more income? Sony from EA's games or EA from each sony platform they develop for ?

Adva4753d ago

Lol @ EA making more money from M$.

TenSteps4753d ago

@CraigGOA

and you seem to forget how dominant the PS2 was over it's competition. Even if EA decides to go exclusive now the fact that the install base of both 360 and PS3 are quite comparable the whole Sega situation is improbable to happen.

You're going under the assumptions that all the factors that led to the demise of Sega as a hardware manufacturer are and will be present with Sony.

tehpees34753d ago

if Sony reduce the price of PS3 only a sucker would pass it up

chadwarden4753d ago

It's funny how quickly people forget that Sony has a ton of first party studios where the majority of their games come from. Losing EA would hurt Sony, but the PS3 dieing out...please.

JackBNimble4753d ago (Edited 4753d ago )

Some one explain to me why EA would ditch 1/3 of it's revenue to leave the PS3, it makes no sence to me at all. PS3 and Xbox have pretty much the same install base, (give or take a few) wouldn't EA lose more money doing this?

EDIT: I guess it would be more like 1/4 with 3 consoles and PC. Still 25% of potential revenue from millions of costumers is huge.

radphil4753d ago

"Agree Laxman216, pretty much what EA did with Sega and the Dreamcast. People forget quickly I guess."

What the HELL are you talking about? EA didn't drive them to the ground. SEGA did that to themselves.

FishCake9T44752d ago

EA make FIFA and Madden.
Now i dont know where you come from but FIFA in England is HUGE. If EA was ever to go XBOX exclusive, thats it for the PS3, especially in Europe.

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mcsm4753d ago (Edited 4753d ago )

EA will never go exclusive they are bunch of bloodsuckers.

starcb264753d ago

EA makes their games for as many systems as possible.

xAlmostPro4753d ago

Articles like this are BS..

Developers know sony had a secure network, they know the hackers are to blame they also know anyone can be hacked.

Oldman1004752d ago (Edited 4752d ago )

Lol i guess you were one of the dozen who read it. The word you're looking for is drivel not dribble. XD

JUDALATION4752d ago

The truth is that the price of the PS3 needs to go down soon anyways... The Wii 2 is coming out and it will be better than the ps3 and xbox in graphics, online, and blockbuster exclusives. The Xbox is selling for 120 used. And the economy is very bad and will be for years... Why anyone would pay 400 for 5 year old tec and lacking online is beyond me.

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CraigGOA4753d ago

LOL mate, you don't know what you are talking about. It came from a reliable source.

jrisner4753d ago

allagegaming.com = reliable source? I've never heard of them. Could be a website you are running out of your garage for all we know and you are just making stories up.

CraigGOA4753d ago

Mate, I have been running allagegaming.com for over 2 years now and have been running gaming sites for over 4 and a half years. allagegaming.com has 2 "official" sponsors and has the support of publishers like EA, Namco Bandai (who supplies us with over 20 games for our 2nd birthday competition), Microsoft, Sony, Activision and Sega just to name a few. Next time if you want to comment do so when you know what you are talking about.

Max_Dissatisfaction4753d ago

Hey Craig, can jrisner come out and play? I'm asking you because you obviously now his owner after the massive OWNAGE you just put on him

awiseman4753d ago

son, if the site dont support sony, its not legit. End statement.

dktxx24753d ago

My anonymous source is telling me that Sony just bought the EA execs a few hookers and then they let bygones be bygones. You heard it here first. Stay tuned for more made up bullsh!t.

CraigGOA4753d ago

When you actually think about it, the PSN outage and all the pressure it is putting on Sony could make them drop the price of the PS3 to maintain sales in the long run.

Silly gameAr4753d ago

Or maybe they were going to drop the price this year anyway. Who knows? We can make up stories though.

TenSteps4753d ago

Maintaining sales isn't that much of a problem it seems

http://n4g.com/news/762850/...

JackBNimble4753d ago

lol, sales have been up for the PS3 despite psn being down.

@ craig... any one can start a rumor, lol.

QuodEratDemonstrandm4752d ago

Or Sony could cut the price of the PS3 because that's the sort of thing companies do. Especially as the components that go into them get cheaper to build. Doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the Playstation Nertwork being down.

Yes I noticed... you'd think a journalist would have a spell check.

Godchild10204753d ago (Edited 4753d ago )

They might lose more money by dropping the price, if the Hardware they use for the PS3 isn't cheaper than when they first came out with the slims. They were losing money on the Phats and then the slims came and that is when they started making money off of each console sold., but hey who knows other than Sony.

CraigGOA4753d ago

Yeah but the amount of money they are losing from the PSN outage through the lack of software sales and DLC sales would greatly outweigh that.

TenSteps4753d ago

Digital game spending only amounts to about 9% of where the customers spend their money across all platforms (source: IHS Screen Digest 2011) so DLC sales are growing but not to the point that it would force Sony to drop the price as hardware costs more to make than software it is more plausible that Sony would maintain the price of the PS3 and just holding their ground despite lack of digital sales.

I don't think Sony would drop the PS3 price because as in the link in my first comment, without any sign of the hardware failing in sales don't expect a price drop.

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Report: Sexual Misconduct Investigation Conducted at EA, Suspects Named and What They Did Revealed

EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.

isarai5d ago

Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.

Cacabunga5d ago

I wonder if it will be censored with some in game ads.

MrBaskerville2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.

Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.

InUrFoxHole2d ago

Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.

XiNatsuDragnel5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.

MrBaskerville2d ago

Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.

Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.

ravens525d ago

What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.

Extermin8or3_5d ago

I mean part of the issue is that things transpired outside of work....

MrBaskerville2d ago

That's the thing he mentioned about not being a creep at all.

KwietStorm_BLM5d ago

You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.

mudakoshaka4d ago

Nerds think they are Gods when they are making video games.

NotoriousWhiz5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."

Yep, EA is disgusting.

Extermin8or3_5d ago

I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.

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EA to Spend Billions Boosting Share Prices After Mass Layoffs

EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.

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Yi-Long8d ago

Well, anything to make those shareholders happy, I guess. They're all that matters in this industry nowadays.

badboyz098d ago (Edited 8d ago )

EA stocks haven't been profitable in over 5yrs. They better hope Take-two don't get the FIFA license lol.

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Sony Patents To Prevent You From In-Game Harassment By Reading Your Emotions

A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.

Profchaos22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.

I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons

I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.

exputers22d ago

Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.

Profchaos21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.

It's just backwards.

just_looken21d ago

What your talking about is called block list

In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback

Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.

But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.

z2g22d ago

Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.

phoenixwing22d ago

Cmon where's the pictures of your children. Don't hold out on them.

H922d ago

At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath

jambola21d ago

I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong

SegaSaturn66922d ago

I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.

Popsicle22d ago

Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.

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