Tuesday
Jun022009
Two Hundred and Forty-Nine Dollars
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 6:27PM
Once again, its that time of the year where the collective video game industry converges on La-La Land in efforts to win the hearts and minds of the gaming press and by proxy the hard earned credits of gamers everywhere [E3Insider.com]
Since this site takes its name from an infamously disasterous presentation by Sony Computer Entertainment of America at E3 2006, I thought I'd comment on the well being of everyone's favorite Japanese video game hardware maker (that isn't Nintnedo).
Sony's had a much better time of it at E3 this year - what with the introduction of new hardware, some sure-to-be hit software titles and promises that Gran Turismo 5 will actually be shipping sometime in the near future (for reals - no joke).
That said, I kind of feel sorry for the folks at Sony - particularly their marketing department who had their thunder stolen days before their big dog-n-pony show as just about every major announcement they had cooked up was leaked onto the Internet. [Engadget.com]
I'm rather amazed that the Web itself hasn't made the advent of E3 completely obsolete (but then again, E3 would have to exist in the first place in order for people to blog about it, wouldn't it?).
I attended E3 in 2006 and thanks to that event, along with Twitter and a few assorted blogs I read, I will never need to attend another E3 as long as I live.
In closing, I predict that $249.99 is going to be a price point too steep for a lot of gamers (especially given the current economy) to be convinced to pick up Sony's reboot of their popular hand-held system. At least they're not asking $599 for it though.
Since this site takes its name from an infamously disasterous presentation by Sony Computer Entertainment of America at E3 2006, I thought I'd comment on the well being of everyone's favorite Japanese video game hardware maker (that isn't Nintnedo).
Sony's had a much better time of it at E3 this year - what with the introduction of new hardware, some sure-to-be hit software titles and promises that Gran Turismo 5 will actually be shipping sometime in the near future (for reals - no joke).
That said, I kind of feel sorry for the folks at Sony - particularly their marketing department who had their thunder stolen days before their big dog-n-pony show as just about every major announcement they had cooked up was leaked onto the Internet. [Engadget.com]
I'm rather amazed that the Web itself hasn't made the advent of E3 completely obsolete (but then again, E3 would have to exist in the first place in order for people to blog about it, wouldn't it?).
I attended E3 in 2006 and thanks to that event, along with Twitter and a few assorted blogs I read, I will never need to attend another E3 as long as I live.
In closing, I predict that $249.99 is going to be a price point too steep for a lot of gamers (especially given the current economy) to be convinced to pick up Sony's reboot of their popular hand-held system. At least they're not asking $599 for it though.
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