Archive for August, 2007

Lair Continues to get Bad Press + I Go Off

Friday, August 31st, 2007

"For two years, everyone has been talking about how great this game looks" That says it all to me. Sony is one of the mass-appeal gaming groups. So what's wrong with that you ask? The masses are a constantly changing group of im-pleasable impulse shoppers. The quick version: PC gamers have been ...

Sony Connect Falls at the Hands of… Napster?

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Uh oh! I smell problems for ATRAC! Sony has until March to figure out how to keep the format running in the long term as their iTunes online store rival venture "Connect" is going away permanently. According to Arstechnica, from which you'll be reading more below, "the writing has been ...

Sony Confirms Internal Supply Depletion of 60GB PS3’s

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

"We no longer have any inventory in SCEA warehouses. All inventory has been purchased and shipped to retailers," Sonys Dave Karraker said in an email. "We dont have visibility as to if that is on their store shelves or in their warehouses at this time. However, based on inventory reports from ...

Holy Grail of Sony/PS3 Hate Quotes? EA says PS3 “just sucks”

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Read for yourself. There were no names named, so I'm suspicious, but I wouldn't want my name published if I had said this. But then I'd also be a coward. A coward trying to keep my job, but still a coward. EA representative: “The truth is the PS3’s tools and the way ...

PlayStation Home beta: Sony Being Sony

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

PS3's Home Beta not doing so well? Sony's not really giving us signs either way, but they're leaning towards the "not doing well" side. Why would I say that? Well, read below and check out the link to see. Sony set out a timeline of updates for home, saying at E3 that ...

PlayStation2 Still Dominating PS3 and Xbox 360

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

'nuff said! source @ GamePro.com

Sony Secretly Stingy with Warhawk

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Nothing big here - just Sony doing their normal "who cares what the consumer thinks" thing. Documentation man. This website may be my ranting place for all 5 of you that read, but more than anything it's a record of Sony's inability to have any business sense/integrity/tact. Herein we see ...

Sony: We should have had more original PSP games

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Grats Sony! Per usual - sarcasm sarcasm sarcasm. Sony sarcastic remark, hate statement, statement of disbelief but acknowledgment of Sony's public idiocy, read the below! "Honestly... we should have had more original PSP games," David Reeves told GamesIndustry.biz when asked about the upcoming extended services for PSP. "We took this decision maybe ...

Sony Execs Don’t Know Their Market, Don’t Know Their Company

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I have said it before, of course. It evidences it's self in so many aspects of Sony's public speaking/presenting life, but here's a GRAND example of Sony's unending idiocy (pay attention to the asterisk): At Sony’s Games Convention press conference David Reeves, head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, revealed the latest ...

Sony’s Envy Grows By Leaps and Bounds with “new” Eye Toy

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Sensing it's loss of a large portion of the market, Sony lashes out at Nintendo in hopes that their words will outshine Nintendo's actions. The PS3s ability to track the position of an object in 3D space using the new Eye Toy offers up more potential for motion-sensing gaming than the ...