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Sony's Tokyo Games Show Keynote Highlights
There was lots of little announcements over the course of Sony's TGS keynote ... but nothing earth shattering. For example, the only time a price drop was mentioned was to say there wouldn't be one soon. They're going to be expanding on the remote play capabilities of the PS3, something they've discussed previously. They did confirm the rumble controller, something the blogs were carrying yesterday. They're also going to delay the rollout of Home until next year, to give it a nice long Beta test period. You could say the 'big news' from their keynote was that they plan to work more closely with developers. Woo. "Hirai pointed to Crisis Core, a Square Enix collaboration on the PSP, as a recent example. 'Some of these collaborative endeavors are going on behind the scenes already,' Hirai said, 'largely in terms of development assistance courtesy of Sony Worldwide Studios. Sony is also listening to the opinions of developers whose games are already out.'" Of course, 'work more closely' may be a euphemism for 'buy out third parties'; the company just announced they've acquired the developer of MotorStorm . For further details, both 1up and Kotaku have liveblogs of the event.
In all fairness, it wouldn't make much sense for Sony to come out and say they were going to cut the price. If you know for sure that a PS3 will be $100 cheaper next week, why the heck would you go buy one today?
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It's common business sense to not tell people you're dropping prices until you do it. How much notice did we get on the PSP price drops? The same goes for releasing an enhanced revision of a product. It's way too early for a slim PS3, but I think this November (in time for Christmas), the price will be at most $500. If they didn't, then I'd shudder to think what they're actually losing on each console sale.