Archive for January, 2006

I’m getting a sense of deja-vu all over again. This Joystiq article talks of a survey Sony sent out asking about online features people might like. Didn’t they send this out ages ago? It sounds awefully familiar. Actually, it sounds familiar in two ways. One is that I think we’ve seen this list before, and talked about how Sony is polling gamers. The second way is that this list has lots of things on it that Xbox Live does, and does extremely well.

But anyway, this is certainly proof positive that Sony is thinking about their online strategy. If they want to add buddy lists, chat, avatars, etc, that’s all fine with me. Add as much as you want. Just please, don’t charge for it! (Yeah, right!)

Joystiq – Sony targets Xbox Live with questionnaire

Is an initial shipment of one million PlayStation 3 consoles enough? With rumours that Microsoft has sold only 600,000 Xbox 360 consoles so far, maybe it will be. But on the other hand, those 360 boxes are in such short supply who knows how many Microsoft could have sold?

My guess is that if Sony does indeed ship one million consoles for the North American launch, that we’ll still be seeing mucho problemos getting a console. Wow, I actually agree with the analyst! Though I don’t know where he gets the November launch date from. It’ll definitely be late October or early December.

GamesIndustry.biz – Analyst predicts US November launch for PS3, 1m initial shipment