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sony
Sony's Motion Control Might Work On Old Games Too
Sony's new PS3 motion controller - whatever it's called and whatever it ends up looking like - won't just be for new games. It might be for old games too! More »
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Comment by runandgun: well technically can't any type of controller work with any game on any platform? 9 Responses | Other threads
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sony
Sony Boss: "People Don't Respect Confidentiality In This Industry"
Sony's E3 keynote was good, but not great. Why? Because the three biggest reveals - for a motion controller, a new PSP and a new Team Ico game - had all been leaked weeks earlier. More »
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Comment by BritBloke916: "And when was the last time a major Nintendo reveal was leaked?" When was the last time anyone was bothered enough... 33 Responses | Other threads
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playstation 3
PS3, PSP Sales Up 30% On Estimates, Says Jack Tretton
According to Sony's Jack Tretton, PS3 sales are 100% higher than they were this time last year. And 30% higher than Sony were expecting for this financial year, meaning that if "something" were to happen to PS3 sales - let's say, hypothetically, like a recession - the console should still hit its target of 10 million sold for the year. Tretton says PSP sales are also "20-30 percent ahead of plan", and goes on to warn that the PS3 may be in short supply this Christmas, with the company only "able to meet somewhere between 80-90 percent demand". More »
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Comment by homernoy: Man, they must have a positively grim attitude about their prospects with the PS3. Myself? I thought the system would... 15 Responses | Other threads
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corporate gloating
Sony Responds To July NPD Sales, Seems Pleased
The PlayStation brand had a pretty darn good month, as it continues to cool off from strong Metal Gear Solid 4 sales, with over 600,000 things named PlayStation sold in the U.S. last month. Sony Computer Entertainment America responded to those NPD figures today, citing "strong momentum" — one of our favorite intangibles — and flooding us with growth percentages. More »
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jack tretton
Tretton Talks About Kaz's Influence on the Playstation Universe
Speaking with a group of game writers earlier this week SCEA head Jack Tretton talked briefly about how Sony Computer Entertainment has benefited under the shift from Ken Kutaragi to Kaz Hirai. More »
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Comment by fuchikoma: I still like Kutaragi. When it came to the PS1, he was the kind of the guy with the brains... more » | Other threads
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oddities
PS3 Press Conference Rehearsal Crashed By Mystery Blogger
Shrine auditorium security grabbed an overly eager blogger from his third-floor balcony perch during a recent Sony E3 press conference dress rehearsal, SCEA head Jack Tretton said.
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Tretton: Sony Considering PSP with Harddrive
Sony has thought about and continues to play around with the idea of building a Playstation Portable with a built in hard drive or internal memory, Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, said this morning at a gather of game writers.
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Comment by gstatty: i just bought a psp, and if they pull some apple type shit and come out with a new sku... more » | Other threads
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corporate gloating
Sony Responds To April NPD Sales, Seems Pleased
The PlayStation 3 may have finished (well) behind the Wii and (a smidge) lower than the Xbox 360 for the month of April, but that doesn't mean that we'll bat an eyelash when Sony sends us a statement that kicks off with "PS3 Continues Blockbuster Year." Fortunately for SCEA, it has triple the hardware representation, letting it flex carefully chosen figures like "total PlayStation hardware sales" topping 505,363 units sold in April. More »
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Comment by rob2112: The spin... the SPIN!... Woah... Gettin' dizzy... I gotta' go lie down... Holy shit... more » | Other threads
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sony
SCEA Boss Understandably Chuffed Over Blu-Ray Triumph
While consumer-level stakeholders on the Blu-Ray side of the great format wars of 06-08 (ie the pawns) are happy enough, imagine how the Sony top brass are feeling right now. They're so excited they just can't hide it. Take SCEA boss Jack Tretton, for example:The emergence of Blu-ray as the de facto high definition standard is one more reason why PS3 is a great value to consumers...The combination of strong sales, Blu-ray dominance and widely-anticipated games all point to 2008 as a breakthrough year for PS3.
Don't know about the games just yet (anyone who thinks MGS4 can carry 2008 on its own is dreaming), but the strong sales and Blu-Ray dominance bits both check out. More »
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Comment by Deathalo: @astrixzero: True, but you can't base a systems success on Uber big titles alone, you have to have a mix... more » | Other threads
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corporate gloating
Sony Responds To January NPD Sales, Seems Pleased
Microsoft may have suffered heavily on the hardware side this January due to stock shortages, but Sony isn't going to put an asterisk by its win over Microsoft. It starts off its corporate statement on last month's U.S. sales by pointing out that the PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 by 17%, boasting of "continued momentum" for the console. Increased PlayStation Network downloads and nearly 3 million PSN accounts, corporate says, illustrate that momentum. More »
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Comment by Ninja_Dood: @Moonshadow101: I don't see how Microsoft would be able to count Windows the way Sony counted the Playstation Brand. 3... more » | Other threads
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best of 2007
Next-Gen Picks Top Ten Blunders Of 2007
"Best of" awards are fun, sure, but it's the screw ups that give us the most joy during the depressing holidays, not the accolades. Watching others fail so spectacularly makes our own lack of accomplishment that much less memorable. Fortunately, Next-Gen knows what we like and have rounded up the year's biggest blunders in its latest list, which not only includes the familiar Sony blackballing incident from March, but also touches on other fun and interesting topics like the dismissal of Jeff Gerstmann and the whirlwind of confusion surrounding this year's PlayStation 3 SKU confusion. Even better are trips down memory lane with execs Shane Kim and Jack Tretton. More »
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Comment by Levoduction: Couple days late, but... I've always wondered why people kicked up such a big fuss over the mono sound thing.... more » | Other threads
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console wars
Sony Pleading To Keep Third Parties On PS3
Following another unspectacular month of PlayStation 3 sales in the U.S., showing another month-to-month decline, you might start thinking that Sony was in a bad way. Sony's spin on the 119,000 PS3s sold in September was glossed over in its statement regarding yesterday's monthly NPD sales data, with the company instead choosing to underscore the recently announced 40GB model and the 80GB model's price drop. Worse news for Sony comes from San Jose Mercury News' Dean Takahashi who writes that Sony recently "pleaded with third-party developers not to abandon its struggling platform", attempting to make the argument that the PS3 is filled with untapped hardware potential. More »
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Comment by zanzibarlegend: yawn..... cant believe i read all this talk of "they hate us, good for them" news flash this is a business,... more » | Other threads
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Jack Tretton Says Dropping BC Wasn't For Cost Measures
The feature-gimped PlayStation 3 with a 40 GB hard drive is coming to North America at a reduced price, but without the ability to play PlayStation 2 games. If you thought Sony was removing the PS2 guts out of the system, saving them gobs of cash and passing the savings on to you, late adopters, maybe you should think again. According to the Wall Street Journal's paraphrasing of SCEA boss Jack Tretton, the removal of PS2 backward compatibility and other components isn't "dramatically reducing Sony's cost of manufacturing" on Sony's behemoth console. More »
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Comment by brello: Talk about desperation. Make some good games, and people will buy them. Addressing the problem at hand, well that would... more » | Other threads
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pillow talk
Tretton Says Follow Heart, Not Trends
I thought I'd had my fill of Sony's Jack Tretton after cutting all of Kotaku's interview clips, but Dean Takahashi has just posted his interview from E3 which has some interesting finds. I especially enjoyed Tretton's take on innovation and trends, and how that relates to Sony's strategies at the moment. More »
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By Mark WilsonComment by xINTRINSICALLY_PWNINGx: NEXT-GEN WISE: Nintendo's flower was given up with little left to give other then handjobs from first party developers. Despite... more » | Other threads
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we're number 1!
Sony Says PS3 Sales Up 135% On Price Drop
Responding to recently released NPD hardware sales data for June, Sony Computer Entertainment America reps praised itself for $393 million in sales, with PLAYSTATION 3 unit sales up 21% over the previous month. The company's PSP saw a 31% sales increase, year over year. The entire PlayStation family of products saw a 21% boost in total dollars year over year. God, my head is spinning from all the carefully chosen percentages! More » -
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Tretton: Wii Is To Lollipop As PS3 Is To Surf 'N' Turf
GamePro sat down with SCEA president Jack Tretton at last week's E3 to pick the PlayStation honcho's brain on just about every subject under the sun. Most of it's the standard stuff, including thoughts on the incremental PSP redesign and the pluses of the PLAYSTATION 3 as an all-in-one entertainment device. But GamePro wisely used the surefire "food analogy" tactic. Obviously Jack thinks the PS3 is the king of meals, but what about the competition? Tretton speaks! More »
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Comment by Big Ups To Atlus: @deviantCharles: deviant it's still not being force by you simply b/c they aren't making you buya blu-ray movie or the... more » | Other threads
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By Mark WilsonComment by dacresni × Ö°×—Ö¶×žÖ°×™Ö¸×”: nice to see all the original content these days. more » | Other threads
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Comment by Irenicus: @Irenicus: I mean, I do like my PSP and I do use it. BUT!! not outside, why? because it is... more » | Other threads
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By Mark WilsonComment by Papa Midnight: Playable code? Whats a guy gotta do to get a debug unit around here! more » | Other threads
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clips
Tretton Gets Grilled On PS3 Price Drop
Man, SCEA president Jack Tretton has a much easier time of it when his interviewer is a cue card. Unfortunately for Mr. Tretton, his interview on CNBC with host Bill Griffeth was a much different affair from the Sony produced explanation of today's price drop announcement. Griffeth takes Jack to task, asking fairly bluntly and with extremely windy "Why?"s just what we're supposed to infer from the price cut. It's probably the most exciting 3 minutes and 43 seconds worth of CNBC you'll watch today.
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Comment by taidan19: EnigmaNemesis: [news.com.com] I like how you always come into comment sections like you are a breath of fresh air in a... more » | Other threads
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ps3
Sony's Other PS3 Announcement
While confirmation of the Playstation 3 price drop and news of a new 80GB PS3 pack with Motorstorm included sucked up most of the attention this morning, there was one other thing mentioned by Sony today. More »
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Comment by Kazuomi-dono: I'm going to be honest as someone who owns all three console of this generation that just came through the... more » | Other threads
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clips
Tretton Talks PS3 Price Drop
At least Jack Tretton knew what his company was doing. I do think that the price cut makes a lot of sense for Sony right now, and the idea of an even larger hard drive for a PS3 is great, though I think it would be neat if Sony also came out with a new hard drive or perhaps a kit to help you upgrade your PS3 yourself. More »
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Comment by nxp3: What the heck do you need a ps3 hard drive upgrade kit for? This ain't an xbox360. You... more » | Other threads
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gag order
SCEA Prez: "We Don't Buy Exclusivity"
With a recent batch of exclusives that were traditionally on the PlayStation family of platforms making for greener Xbox 360 pastures—Fatal Inertia, Beautiful Katamari, Ace Combat 6, Devil May Cry 4, et al.—some might wonder how Microsoft is pulling it off. The answer? Money and lots of it. From the funding of development to co-marketing dollars to advances on future episodic content, it may be costing Microsoft a pretty penny to secure titles from the Sony stable. How will SCEA counter? We're not... sure. But according to SCEA president Jack Tretton, we can sleep soundly knowing that Sony will never lower themselves to outright paying for exclusivity like some kind of desperate john. More »
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Comment by bradonis: That was a huge mistake from that PR guy to publically admit that they are basically doomed as a consequence... more » | Other threads
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sony
More SIXAXIS Rumble Rumblings
Sony's decision to remove force feedback vibration from the SIXAXIS controller for the PLAYSTATION 3 was called a "strategic choice" for which the company has "no regrets." Following Sony's settlement with Immersion on patent disputes, talk of rumble returning to the PlayStation became much more positive. More »
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Comment by Sloopydrew: Gawd, the Wiimote battery life is pathetic. I've went through boxes of batteries. Being that Nintendo is only claiming "cutting... more » | Other threads
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tretton types
Sony Prez: "Past Success Is No Guarantee Of Future Success"
Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO and president Jack Tretton has published his first PlayStation.Blog entry, adding a bit of PLAYSTATION 3 promise and a dash of Sony humility. Tretton does his blogger best to explain the PlayStation philosophy, pointing out the company's expectations for a console's lifecycle, expanding the market beyond teenage boys and not-too-bluntly saying "hey, we've been criticized before." More »
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Comment by theflux: I'd like to believe Sony is starting to turn its PR train wreck around. This is just another step... more » | Other threads
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sharing is caring!
Sony :( at Microsoft Thinking About Folding@Home
Emoticons really are a visual language, aren't they? Microsoft hasn't even gotten their mitts on the Folding@Home project (though they have hinted at having little daydreams about it), but Sony, forever the jealous type, is already whining about it. When Jack Tretton of SCEA was interviewed by GamePro, he had this to say about the rumor: More » -
money matters
Tretton's All About Justifying PS3 Cost
Last year was about the hardware, the shootings and the gray market. This year, Sony's all about the games. With exclusives like Warhawk and Lair in the pipeline, big PS3 titles are coming. Points out Sony Computer Entertainment of America head Jack Tretton: More »
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Comment by Elyoshi: You know, that guy looks alot like The Voice of Britain from V for Vendetta. more » | Other threads
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waiting is awesome
PS3: 10 More Years!
SCEA president, Jack Tretton, is standing by his console as a story in the LA Times reported that Sony confidently sold only about half as many units of PS3s in 2007 as the Nintendo Wii. Apparently, it doesn't matter if a million units weren't sold here or there because, as Tretton puts it, "We're into this for the next 10 years and beyond", implying that their commitment to the console is going to win out in the end. More » -
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Sony Says PS3 "Shortages" Fixed By May (Eh?)
For our one reader unable to purchase a PS3, good news. Sony says shortages will let up by May, and the company is on track to ship 2 million PLAYSTATION 3s to North America by March's end. Says Sony Computer Entertainment America honcho Jack Tretton:
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Jack Tretton Owes Penny Arcade $13,200
In a recent interview with EGM, SCEA President Jack Tretton claimed he would pay $1200 for any PS3s found on store shelves that had been there longer than five minutes. In classic style, Penny Arcade's Gabe and Tycho decided to take him up on his offer and put Jack's money where his mouth is. In a short hour of traveling around their local area to various major retail outlets, the boys managed to turn up no less than ten PS3s sitting on store shelves. If you're reading this, Mr. Tretton, you better pull out your pen and get ready to start writing some checks. I'm on my way out now to Best Buy to start photographing PS3s to fund my trip to Hawaii. More »
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kotaku magu
Kotaku Magu: Tretton Offers To Buy Unsold PS3s For $1,200
Get ready to put your money where your mouth is, Jack Tretton. Just listen to the generous offer Sony Computer Entertainment of America's honcho makes in game mag EGM: More » -
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Sony: Backward Compatability = Flying Breakfast Car
Nintendo's Chris Kohler... sorry, Wired's Chris Kohler got a chance to ask SCEA VP Jack Tretton a handful of burning questions one day prior to the launch of the PlayStation 3. From line-sitting dangers to backward compatability problems, Jack had much to say. More » -
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Sony May Not Meet PS3 Shipment Targets
After cutting shipment targets and delaying the European launch, combined with the kick in the nuts price drop for Japan only, Sony has some more potentially distressing PlayStation 3 launch news: they may not actually ship those 2 million intended PS3's by year's end.
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Comment by Buuuudddy: They did have alot of time to manufacture PS3's. They shouldn't of chosen the Blu Ray drive, and went with... more » | Other threads
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