Archive for December, 2008

Sony Can’t Get it Up: Home to remain indefinitely in BETA

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Jack Buser, director of the PS3's unfinished pet project that sold PS3's 2 years ago, yet just recently came out - Home, joined in on Kotaku's podcast this week. He let Fahey, Adam and I drop in to his surprisingly stark virtual home on the Playstation 3 were he talked about ...

Sony to not lose as much - PS3 production cost cut by 35%

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

The highlights, per usual. This 35% cut will still render Sony in the red, however not as much as before. But of course there's still no possibility (says Sony) of a price drop. Makes sense, right?!? Sony’s PS3 trails its rivals in shipments and remains a financial disaster for the ...

WSJ Doubts PS3 as a “Comeback Player”

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Here are snippets from the Wall Street Journal concerning Sony recently: For most of this year, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 videogame console seemed finally to be taking off after a slow start. The PS3, trailing Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 consoles, was closing in on the No. 2 ...

Sony - Nintendo done good. WTF?

Friday, December 19th, 2008

David Reeves is hitting the Egg Nog a little early... and a little HEAVY. Where the f(&^ did THIS come from? “On the competition, I will say Nintendo have only done good things. They have expanded geographically and dramatically extended demographically. They have never been afraid to try new products, be ...

Gizmodo Posts the Top 10 Things to Know About PSHome

Monday, December 15th, 2008

I'll leave you this snippet of #10 and the summary just to give you a taste of the writeup - it's not ALL negative, just expect some good thorough criticism. It's what has come to be expected of Sony - the mindless spiketv wannabe company that takes 5 year old concepts ...

Sonys PS3 A Sinking Ship ROFL - Read On (CNNMoney.com)

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Read! REEEEEEEEAD ROFL......../ ...sales of the PS3 are down about 19% from November 2007... And the problem for Sony isnt the recession, its the PS3. Microsoft MSFT put up respectable numbers with its Xbox 360, selling 836,000 units vs 777,000 in November 2007. And Nintendos NTDOY Wii continues to dominate the market, ...

PlayStation Home launching tomorrow. Thanks Sony?

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

So nice of Sony to let us know THE DAY BEFORE that something PS3'ers have been waiting for for 2 YEARS is just now coming out. Classy. We'd expect no less from you Sony. /finger We knew it was coming this month, now we have the day. Tomorrow Dec. 11 source @ ...

“Most Prominent Spike TV Advertisers” Awards

Monday, December 1st, 2008

I discovered the minus world here recently during the elections. Have a look at this piece - it speaks LOUDLY for me, and though it's not COMPLETELY Sony related, the VGA's stand for everything Sony seems to want: In a categorically unsurprising move by “xtreme 2 da core 4 men” TV ...