Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008
I'm still moderately stunned at this quote:
He said: “One thing that's different is we typically figured out who the market leader was going to be before the start of the cycle and bet with our development resources on that platform.
“We made the wrong call there [by betting on the ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Indeed! Koller, of course is the PSP brand manager for Sony.
PSP has always faced fierce competition from Nintendo DS, yet Koller remains optimistic about Sony's prospects through 2009. Concerns over other competitors, such as iPhone, are virtually nonexistent according to the company's perspective.
Asked specifically about the recently-launched iPhone App Store, ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Sony has decided to add the Xross Media Bar (XMB) that has proved so successful in its PlayStation 3 to its new range of Vaio laptops.
Of course, this is the same UI as the PSP and some Bravia TV's as well. I hope it has staying power in a it'll-never-change ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Sony's mantra of not writing checks for exclusives—or much of anything—seems to be biting them in the ass a couple times this week. There are at least four cases where the PlayStation 3 has suffered because of Sony's lack of willingness to open up the purse strings.... backward compatibility and ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Kotaku said it best! Referring to the PSN version of the original PS's Wipeout:
...It was playable all the way back at TGS, and has been playable at various events since, and yet at E3 this year, it was nowhere. No mention of it, no mention of a release date. So ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Normally companies assign projects to a group or gathering of groups that communicate well, or at least stipulate and/or micro manage communications between whomevers. This is how you get things done properly. Specialists do their jobs, and each specialist tells others who will be directly affected by their work what ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Estranged Big Three execs Phil Harrison and Peter Moore spotted in the wild.
SOCOM is looking fun.
Tretton: "2008 is the year of the PS3, but as great as 2008 is, we're just getting started.
2 years after PS3's release: just getting started.
Really hitting hard on the long product lifecycle thing, saying their ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Yeah, I said penis envy. Whaddaboutit? Of course, we all know that the only reason to talk about the competition in a derogatory way is because they're beating your ass OR because they're talking sh*t about you, in which case, refer back to "the ONLY reason" earlier in this senetence.
Here's ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The last part of that "niche" comment (see last post) from Stringer has NOTHING to do with Nintendo (the subject matter at hand) and serves as more fuel for me to call howard stringer an idiot.
"We're selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it's still the best way to ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Ya see, the problem is two fold.
Upper management nowadays doesn't know a damn thing about their industry. What they know is simply what their lackies TELL THEM. So it could be spin, it could be B.S., it could be opinion - but that is ALL CEO's/COO's/etc... know. It's the sad ...
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