If you like racing games, you’re going to love Burnout Paradise. Check out their trailer:
It is going to hit stores in Jan 22 of 2008 so be prepared. Console of choice is, yet again the XBox 360. Geez, the XBox360 is churning out a lot of good games lately. Sony better pick up their pace – it’s pointless to be all egoistical about their blu-ray if it won’t sell. I know Burnout Paradise is coming out on PS3 too but I am talking about generally. XBox360 beats PS3 in popularity, hands down. Okay, maybe I am bit harsh – but maybe Sony PS3 came out a little too early. I am glad they lowered their price for a start though.
Just as I was writing about how Sony was giving a little incentives, today I got wind that the console i sold out! Well, since they hacked $100 off the original price of $599 for the 60Gg, i guess it made it all more appealing to the mass. Hey, you can buy a lot of things with $100 bucks – you can have at least 2 more games to play on your PS3 :)
On the eve of this year’s E3 Media and Business Summit, Sony announced that it would be dropping the price on its flagship 60GB PlayStation 3 to $499, a $100 break over the console’s original $599 price point. Initially heralded as a positive and necessary step in spurring lackluster sales of the console, the price cut received one significant caveat several days later. Speaking to a Norwegian gaming news site, Sony Computer Entertainment America president Kaz Harai noted that a $499 PS3 would only be temporary, as once the current supply of 60GB PS3s had run its course, Sony would be offering only its $599 80GB PS3.
The price drop was quickly interpreted as a fire sale of sorts, as Sony cleared out its inventory of 60GB PlayStation 3s to make room for its new line of larger hard drive consoles. The strategy has also proved to be successful for Sony in North America. In July, the first month after announcing the price drop, the PS3 for the first time outsold archrival Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console by 2,000 units in Canada and nearly doubled its preceding month’s performance in the US, spiking to 159,000 units sold from 98,000 the month before.
A very important tool in marketing strategy is how you make your customers think that their buy is worth while. Why, throw in a few Blu-Ray movies in for free!
That’s exactly what PS3 is offering. Buying a set of new PS3 and you will get 8 Blu-Ray movies for free. So i guess they are not selling just games now, they’re selling the PS3 as a DVD player.
Now if you buy a 60 GB Sony PS3 or 80GB Sony PS3 on Amazon.com you get all-in-all 8 Blu-ray movies for free!. This is a nice and quick start on your Blu-ray movie collection.
The 8 free Blu-ray movies are comprised of the already running mail-in promotion of 5 Blu-ray movies and between August 28, 2007 and September 23rd Amazon throws in three more Blu-ray movies.
In July Amazon offered 6 Blu-ray movies and a Blu-ray remote with the $499.99 60GB Sony PS3. I thought that was a great deal.
Oh No…i am sure some of you fans out there must be disappointed. The game, Grand Theft Auto IV has been delayed to 2008 due to some technical improvements they’re doing to the game.
The overcrowded monkey house that was the 2007 holiday release schedule lost one of its 800-pound gorillas today. Without warning, this afternoon Take-Two Interactive stunned the game industry by announcing it was delaying Grand Theft Auto IV to the second quarter of its 2008 fiscal year, which begins on February 1, 2008. Published by Take-Two subsidiary Rockstar Games, the crime-action title had been slated to ship for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America on October 16, 2007.
“Certain elements of development proved to be more time-intensive than expected, especially given the commitment for a simultaneous release on two very different platforms,” said Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick in a statement.
Unsurprisingly, not having GTA IV in its 2007 fiscal-year lineup has put a serious dent in Take-Two’s earnings expectations. The company’s guidance is now for net revenue of $950 million to $1.0 billion for the 12 months ending October 31, and a loss of $1.25 to $1.35 per share. That figure is over $200 million lower than prior estimates of $1.2 billion to $1.25 billion in annual revenue–which would have been “break even results” according to the company’s second-quarter earnings statement. With the AO-rated Manhunt 2 on indefinite hold, Take-Two now expects net revenue between $275 million to $300 million for its fourth fiscal quarter, with a net loss of $0.05 to $0.10 per share.
Resident Evil 5, the forthcoming installment that is set to be out in 2009 has it official trailer out! OMG OMG, it’s just that i have been playing Resident Evil SINCE the first one came out in PS! And now it’s going to be on XBOX360 too..that is like out of the world!
But only in 2009. 2 years from now is rather nuts. If I have to wait so long for that game, it better come out good.
Let’s check out the trailer now:
Does it look it it’s somewhere in the middle east or along the Mediterranean coast line? Cos that scene just looks like somewhere in Morocco or something.
Soul CaliburIV is set to be developed for PS3 and XBox 360 platforms. I cannot contain my happiness because Soul Caliber is the best fighting game ever!
After the announcement of Soul Calibur Legends coming to the Wii, some Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 fighting game fans might have felt a little left out. Namco Bandai today confirmed that it too will be able to rejoin the weapons-based fighting franchise’s fray, as Soul Calibur IV is in development for the latest systems from Sony and Microsoft.
The next game is being developed by Project Soul, the studio behind previous entries in the series and will include new modes, characters, and a new battle system. Namco Bandai is saying the game will “propel the fighting genre into the next-gen era” and is also promising realistic, interactive environments and better artificial intelligence.
Harry Potter fans, you can watch the OFFICIAL trailer of The Order of Phoenix game on your PS3s now. BTW, the graphics looks very real, thanks to PS3’s awesome innards. :D
I am an OK fan of Harry Potters movie as I thought initially in the first and second installment of the movie, the acting was rather bad and woodlike. I guess it’s because Daniel Radcliff was young and inexperience. Anyway, i grew to like him after a few installments. One have to appreciate the books and the storyline to actually understand and like the movie. Otherwise, in the words of my partner, Harry Potter is AWFUL. And unfortunately, he may not be the only one who thinks so too.
But now, i think the Harry Potter installments are more mature and would appeal to the old crowd since Mr. Radcliffe has snagged himself a pretty fine following who thinks he’s awfully gorgeous. Who over here thinks Daniel is hot?
Ken Kutaragi is retiring from Sony at the age of 56. Ah i’d like to thank him for creating PS series for our enjoyment. I’m a fan of PS, there is no doubt about it.
Kutaragi commented, “I am happy to graduate from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. after introducing four platforms to the PlayStation family. It has been an exciting experience to change the world of computer entertainment by marrying cutting-edge technologies with creative minds from all over the world. I’m looking forward to building on this vision in my next endeavours.
To fullfil the sorely lacking games that involves ninja, Tecmo’s Ryu Hayabusa is slashing his way to the PS3 in Ninja Gaiden Sigma, a new take on the Xbox installments in the series, Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden Black. I have not played this game yet but it looks pretty interesting. If it’s anything like Shinobi, i’m in! Some people think that Ninja Gaiden Sigma is made just for PS3 but truth is, you can also play it on Xbox 360.
Check out the trailer here:
It looks very, very playable. Maybe after I am done with Shinobi, I’ll try this out. Hmm.
With software emulation, more than 1000 PS2 games can now be played in PS3. Good. I never could understand why can’t Sony just create a newer console that can play games from its predecessors. It’ll make life so much easier. I know, I know… the software is different, the laser reader is to, la la la la but a girl can bit*h, can’t she? :)
Sony Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison has now given out numbers–he told semiofficial blog Three Speech that more than 1,000 PS2 games will be playable on the new models at launch, with further updates over time adding more to the list.
What is a semi official blog anyway? Does that mean he can write about his personal life as well as his work life too? *shrugs* Anyway, according to Phil, Sony will be concentrating on making the “big” games from PS2 work on PS3. But he refuses to draw which ones are and not – i guess it will be up to us to play the russian roulette; pop it in and see if it works.
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Ken Kutaragi is retiring from Sony at the age of 56. Ah i’d like to thank him for creating PS series for our enjoyment. I’m a fan of PS, there is no doubt about it. 
