Kotaku: Ray Maguire

Can Kids Actually Learn Math And Science With LittleBigPlanet?

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:30:00 EDT

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PlayStation 3 platformer LittleBigPlanet 2 is expert at doing many things—imitating other video games, imitating classic movies, imitating operating systems—but can it actually be a good learning tool? Sony thinks so and plans to release downloadable content for the game that's designed to aid schoolteachers. More »

Sony Says "Nothing Is Ever Exclusive"

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:40:42 EDT

Sony Computer Entertainment UK director Ray Maguire gives fans of Grand Theft Auto IV, Fallout 3 and Tomb Raider: Underworld hope for the future of "exclusive" downloadable content on the PlayStation 3 platform. Each has promised DLC only for Microsoft's Xbox 360, but Maguire tells VideoGamer that "One thing to remember, nothing is ever exclusive." More »

Why No PS3 Holiday Price Cut? Sony Running A Business, Thinking of Shareholders

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

What better way to say Happy Holiday than with a console price cut. This year, Sony won't be saying it that way. The company, states Sony Computer Entertainment exec Ray Maguire, "has a business to run" and must "do the right thing" for Sony shareholders. Forget holiday consumer charity! Oh, the brutal honesty, so brutal, so honest. The full Maguire quote: More »

Sony UK Boss Says E3 Was Like A Plumber's Convention

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:40:00 EDT

More E3 navel-gazing! Can you stand any more? Do try, because this has got to be the last one. Asked for his thoughts on the validity of E3's "new" format, SCE UK's Ray Maguire said: More »

Sony: By 2018, 90% Of Games Will Be Downloaded

Mark Wilson — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:40:00 EDT

Sony Computer Entertainment UK's Ray Maguire, amidst a discussion on the Byron Report (chastising it for not keeping up with a growing internet-based industry), made a prediction about the future of games:

...ten years from now the ratio of games sales will have gone from 90 per cent in-store to 90 per cent online.

And while that certainly doesn't sound wrong, I think that I speak for everyone here by saying, we know that we'll be downloading games in ten years. We're wondering more about the next five. More »

Sony Teases Firmware 2.4 and New Chat Functionality

Mark Wilson — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:20:22 EST

While Sony just took the time to confirm that 1 million PS3s had sold in the UK, it was a quote from SCEE managing director Ray Maguire that got us all hot and bothered:

Our momentum will continue with the introduction of in-game communication in the summer, firmware update 2.4 and the strongest line-up of games through our third party partners and our own studios.

Let's start the semantics minigame. Does Maguire mean that we'll see the 2.4 update in the summer? And does that mean we'll see in-game XMB? More »

Europe Loves PS3, Buys 600,000

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:20:35 EDT

After record breaking sales figures were announced in the UK for Sony's latest PlayStation, it should come as little surprise that the rest of Europe so ravenously snapped up PLAYSTATION 3s. True, at 599, moving some 600,000 PS3s into gamers hands is a little surprising, but Europe loves them some PlayStations. More »

Why's That Euro PS3 So Damn Pricey?

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:20:02 EST

When the PLAYSTATION 3 launch details were announced for the European territories, our 'PAL's across the Atlantic didn't have kind things to say about the pricing. A retail price of 425 is pretty hard to swallow, especially when you figure that the currency conversion equates to about $830 in the US or 101,000 in Japan. The 60GB model retails for $599 US and 59,980 in those territories, respectively, for the record. More »