It’s been a long, hard day of trashing Sony’s PlayStation 3 announcements, but the hardest adjustment for us PS3week staffers is communicating in person — in spoken words — now that we’re in the same city for a week. We’re so used to our long-distance AIM relationship, that we’ve been IMing each other across the [...]
Sony made two huge announcements today — a new controller and an official launch scheme. Too bad neither one was their idea.
THE PRICE
The two-tier pricing system, pioneered in the console world by the Xbox 360, is a dubious plan at best. Does Sony really need to lure deep-pocketed gamers to a $600 system with the [...]
Japan: November 11
• 20 GB – 58,900 Yen (US $536)
• 60 GB – Priced by retailers
North America: November 17
• 20 GB – US $499, CN $549
$bull; 60 GB – US $599, CN $659
Europe/Australia: November 19 No date yet?
• 20 GB – 499 Euros (US $633)
• 60 GB – 599 Europs (US $760)
Got that? The only [...]
We’re not there, but we’re liveblogging from a nearby couch!
Kaz Hirai defends the delay in a roundabout way, and adds, “The next generation doesn’t start until we say it does.” Or until we get bored and buy an Xbox 360.
Bunch of stuff about PS2 sales, yada yada yada. Sony will be making new PS2 games [...]
Much like the new console whose secrets it will eventually reveal, the Sony E3 press conference is running a little late. We hear the event is overflowing with eager journalists and fanboys, and it’s been pushed back an hour to accomodate them all.
We, on the other hand, will be watching from the comfort of David’s [...]
We’re hittin’ the clear blue skies this morning on the way to E3 in Los Angeles, so watch this spot for updates throughout the week, and hopefully some debauchery totally unrelated to the giant gaming expo. Stay tuned!
TDK is shipping its first 25- and 50-gig Blu-ray discs, in both writeable and rewriteable formats.
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The Blu-ray disc format, which will be used for all PlayStation 3 games, is slowly but surely hitting the market on the PC side, today with an announcement from TDK that it is shipping its first cartridge-free 50- and [...]
From the rumor mill: PS3 is too big to fit in its case, Sony’s still bidding on parts, and the OS might take up tons of memory.
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Thanks to reports from a few different sources, things aren’t looking any better for PS3 development today than they have been for the last few months. The [...]
We already know there’s going to be a PS3 shortage when the system launches worldwide in November. Is there any answer?
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Joystiq has posted an insightful — and depressing — conversation with a mom & pop gaming retailer on the economics of a console shortage. When the Xbox 360 was in extraordinarily scarce supply last [...]
Rumor has it that playable PS3 kiosks will be in limited supply at the biggest gaming expo of the year.
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In news that matters way more for members of the media than for the average gamer, Spong has been reporting that numerous sources say that Sony will have very few playable PS3’s on the [...]
