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Sony Looks to 'Refine' PS3 Price

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-corpspeak-for-price-cut dept.

Via GameDaily a Financial Times interview with with Sir Howard Stringer, Sony's CEO, gives fans the first hope that price cuts may be coming soon. Lauding the Wii's performance in last month's NPD numbers, Stringer says that Sony is looking to 'refine' the PS3's pricepoint. "'Nintendo Wii has been a successful enterprise, and a very good business model, compared with ours . . . because it's cheaper,' Mr Stringer said in a video interview. 'That [price cuts] is what we are studying at the moment. That's what we are trying to refine.' Sir Howard said he expected 'energy [in PS3 sales] by Christmas, and then you will begin to see break-out games'. Sony is launching a virtual-world game called Home this year, and up to 30 other games."

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  1. Re:Games by Pluvius · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't give a wet hamster fart if the Wii was LITERALLY two Gamecubes duct-taped together like the wannabe web-comedians claim.

    You will in a couple of years.

    Rob

  2. Re:Games by DrXym · · Score: 0, Troll
    Even though The Godfather is a bad game on all platforms and Trauma Center is better on the DS?

    Seriously, every Wii game thinks it has to reinvent the control scheme even when it is gratuitous and tacked on. Gestures may work for simple actions that have a 1:1 mapping to real life. Gestures suck rocks for anything for anything more complex.

    And yes the Wii is last gen. Having a gimmicky controller does not change that fact.