PS3 sales double after price cutCorporate greed was killing salesBy Nick Farrell: Friday, 16 November 2007, 3:58 PMSONY has seen the sales of its PS3 console double after cutting the price of the machine.For months the console has been languishing behind Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii. Now since the company announced its price cut in mid-October and launched of a lower-priced version, that the machine is experiencing a change of fortune.Sony said it flogged 75,000 PS3 consoles in the week of October 29 in the United States, and more than 100,000 in the following week, compared with average weekly sales of 30,000 to 40,000 before.The price cut took the PS3 to just shy of $500 although it started selling a 40GB hard drive on November 2 for $399.According to the market research outfit NPD, Sony has a long way to go before it catches up to the second place running Microsoft.Microsoft sold 366,000 Xbox 360 consoles and Sony sold 121,000 PS3 machines. Nintendo is still top dog, selling 519,000 units of the Wii in the United States in October alone.The failure of the PS3 to gain much traction is one of the reasons Sony fears it is starting to lose the next-generation DVD war. The PS3 was supposed to put a Blu-ray player into customers' homes and give the technology a head start.Instead, with prices on HD-DVD so low it is possible to buy a separate player and still select one of the rival consoles.Sony is in many ways a victim of its own greed. It ignored the advice of analysts in attempting to flog the PS3 at a price much higher than its rivals and then insulted the early adopters by dropping the price when it was clear it had made a terrible mistake.
QuotePS3 sales double after price cutCorporate greed was killing salesBy Nick Farrell: Friday, 16 November 2007, 3:58 PMSONY has seen the sales of its PS3 console double after cutting the price of the machine.For months the console has been languishing behind Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii. Now since the company announced its price cut in mid-October and launched of a lower-priced version, that the machine is experiencing a change of fortune.Sony said it flogged 75,000 PS3 consoles in the week of October 29 in the United States, and more than 100,000 in the following week, compared with average weekly sales of 30,000 to 40,000 before.The price cut took the PS3 to just shy of $500 although it started selling a 40GB hard drive on November 2 for $399.According to the market research outfit NPD, Sony has a long way to go before it catches up to the second place running Microsoft.Microsoft sold 366,000 Xbox 360 consoles and Sony sold 121,000 PS3 machines. Nintendo is still top dog, selling 519,000 units of the Wii in the United States in October alone.The failure of the PS3 to gain much traction is one of the reasons Sony fears it is starting to lose the next-generation DVD war. The PS3 was supposed to put a Blu-ray player into customers' homes and give the technology a head start.Instead, with prices on HD-DVD so low it is possible to buy a separate player and still select one of the rival consoles.Sony is in many ways a victim of its own greed. It ignored the advice of analysts in attempting to flog the PS3 at a price much higher than its rivals and then insulted the early adopters by dropping the price when it was clear it had made a terrible mistake.
Hence the reason I'm getting one for my Birthday! WOO HOO!!
the seduction of the Dark Side is strong, now he must only make his sacrifice
LOL, the sacrifice will be all the victims in Assassins Creed! Hehehe, and of course Apprentice when I PWN him in Resistance....
Quote from: Redlum08 on November 16, 2007, 03:39:41 PMLOL, the sacrifice will be all the victims in Assassins Creed! Hehehe, and of course Apprentice when I PWN him in Resistance....OMG...Redlum went there.................We'll see...
Folks,The PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 has gone gold! We got news last night that Unreal Tournament 3 has been approved by SCEA and has been released to North American manufacturing. Midway has started talking to retailers to figure out exact timing and they will have a formal announcement early next week when everyone is back from the Thanksgiving holiday. My guess is that Midway will start shipping the title to North American retailers on Monday December 10th and it could show up in stores as early as December 11th but more likely toward the middle of that week. I think PS3 owners are going to really enjoy UT3 this holiday so make sure you get it on your shopping list! For PAL territories, specifically UK and Europe, we have a few localization-related tasks to complete and then we should be starting the certification process pretty soon. My best guess is early next year (January or February) for the game to ship over there.
In an interview earlier this year, Valve Software founder Gabe Newell referred to PlayStation 3 as "a waste of everybody's time." This attitude shows in the development structure of The Orange Box. While the PC and Xbox 360 versions were handled by Valve, the PS3 port was handed off to an internal team at EA. Originally scheduled to be released day and date with the PC and 360 versions, the PS3 Orange Box has been delayed until December. PS3 owners, forced to watch from the sidelines as their gaming kindred inundates them with tales of Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal, continue to wait patiently for their chance to take a stroll through Valve's universe.After spending a significant amount of time with a near final version of the PS3 game, it's apparent that this version suffers from a number of technical flaws, which at best merely hinder game play and at worst make the experience downright unplayable. Framerate is a consistent issue throughout the Half-Life series of games included in The Orange Box. One moment you'll be cruising through the game at 30 frames per second and the next you'll be enjoying a slideshow of series protagonist Gordon Freeman cruising down the river. However, Portal suffers from no such technical hiccups and is on its way to being a pitch-perfect port of the spatial reasoning exercise. Due to a server connection issue, we were unable to get any time with Team Fortress 2.With the clock ticking, EA has a limited amount of time to fix the glaring issues which plague this port of The Orange Box. Unfortunately, it seems that, once again, PlayStation 3 owners are doomed to suffer through another substandard version of a multiplatform game.
Quote from: greyfox on November 28, 2007, 12:33:26 AMwhy not? they decided to hand it over to the EA team just because they are against the ps3, isn't that enough.Actually, no, I do not believe that is enough. The responsibility rests with the developer, imo
why not? they decided to hand it over to the EA team just because they are against the ps3, isn't that enough.
Valve is a small company. EA isnt. EA have money.......give money to small company.....small company happy
