NeoPlayStation
07-19-2007, 05:48 PM
http://news.spong.com/detail/editorial.jsp?eid=10109618&cid=&tid=&pid=&plid=&page=1
PS3 price cut in Europe by Christmas?
I’m not going to answer your question, because that would get me into tremendous hot water. But we have a plan and we’re going to stick to it. We are confident but not arrogant about reaching a very, very good installed base on PS3, and having the same momentum that we had with the PS2.
We’re not putting our heads in the sand – we know it’s not selling that well, but we know that it’s selling according to the targets. Ray Maguire (managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment UK) has this graph and he tells me whether it’s half a per cent above or half a per cent below – and it’s actually spot-on the graph.
3rds party exclusives:
Well, Phil did the original deal for Tomb Raider back in 1995/96. I did the GTA deal in the Sunset Marquis Hotel. We did Pro Evo, but not Metal Gear Solid, because that was done in Japan – and others. We felt at the time that because we didn’t necessarily have good first-party software.
We could have gone the route of renewing, maybe with GTA and other things, and we have chosen to do it, for example, with Konami. With some of them, you do need to, for certain reasons, in Japan.
1st party:
They haven’t been announced, but I’ll give you the thought process. We have now every quarter something called Gameshow where we all get together globally and look at what Worldwide Studios are producing.
Now, we don’t see every game at every session, but every session, we see five or six new IPs which we can rate. I can, hand on heart, say that there are six or seven such games, coming in the next 18 months, which are absolutely spectacular.
There are some that are very emotional – one of the objectives we gave Phil (Harrison) is to make people cry. We know that in the middle and the back end of next year, these are going to come out and people will say: “I have never seen anything like that before”.
PS3 price cut in Europe by Christmas?
I’m not going to answer your question, because that would get me into tremendous hot water. But we have a plan and we’re going to stick to it. We are confident but not arrogant about reaching a very, very good installed base on PS3, and having the same momentum that we had with the PS2.
We’re not putting our heads in the sand – we know it’s not selling that well, but we know that it’s selling according to the targets. Ray Maguire (managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment UK) has this graph and he tells me whether it’s half a per cent above or half a per cent below – and it’s actually spot-on the graph.
3rds party exclusives:
Well, Phil did the original deal for Tomb Raider back in 1995/96. I did the GTA deal in the Sunset Marquis Hotel. We did Pro Evo, but not Metal Gear Solid, because that was done in Japan – and others. We felt at the time that because we didn’t necessarily have good first-party software.
We could have gone the route of renewing, maybe with GTA and other things, and we have chosen to do it, for example, with Konami. With some of them, you do need to, for certain reasons, in Japan.
1st party:
They haven’t been announced, but I’ll give you the thought process. We have now every quarter something called Gameshow where we all get together globally and look at what Worldwide Studios are producing.
Now, we don’t see every game at every session, but every session, we see five or six new IPs which we can rate. I can, hand on heart, say that there are six or seven such games, coming in the next 18 months, which are absolutely spectacular.
There are some that are very emotional – one of the objectives we gave Phil (Harrison) is to make people cry. We know that in the middle and the back end of next year, these are going to come out and people will say: “I have never seen anything like that before”.