By Eliza Gauger, 6:40 PM on Tue May 30 2006, 91 views (Edit post, Set to draft, Slurp)

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The console mudslinging has intensified, with top Xbox Europe executives Chris Lewis and Neil Thompson getting nippy about the next-gen DVD tech's inclusion in the PS3, and the resulting price spike. Sony has been hinging its defense of the PS3's insane price point ($500-$600) on the Blu-Ray, with the claim that you're not just buying a games platform, but a whole cutting-edge entertainment system.

Sony are now making people pay an extra few hundred pounds for a Blu-Ray DVD drive which we don't know is going to be the standard in the next-generation DVD formats. [...] This is the company that brought out Betamax.

Oh snap! I'm inclined to agree with these gentlemen. Between the PSP keyboard cancellation (not allowing Logic 3 to develop a third-party one, then canceling their first-party model), the $140 "PlayStation Signature" shirts, and the PS3's pricing, Sony seems to have completely lost its shit. I am curious to see how, and why, and if, they survive this one. Eliza Gauger

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