N’Gai Croal’s Monday Morning Quarterback
N’Gai Croal comes out swinging with another great article discussing the current state of the next-gen console war. For a small taste, read this:
The current strategy–offsetting the high price and lack of exclusive killer apps with the ostensibly strong brand loyalty of the Playstation name–simply isn’t working. The only killer app in the near future is Ninja Gaiden Sigma, and that seems far more likely to appeal to the hardcore gamers who already own a PS3 than to persuade newer ones to buy in. That would suggest a strong need for a price cut, but having just declared a $2 billion loss within Sony Computer Entertainment, I’m not sure that newly-minted Playstation overlord Kaz Hirai and his boss Howard Stringer have an appetite for more red ink.
For the full course, follow this link:
Monday Morning Quarterback: An Armchair Analysis of Videogame Sales for April 2007
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May 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
The EGM Live podcast from yesterday nailed it – games like heavenly sword and warhawk need to be out NOW, not several months from now. The lack of consistency in first party output has been dreadful. Insomniac got the ball rolling with a good launch title, and nobody has followed it up too well. Motorstorm was good but not really feature complete.
If they don’t drop the price to $399.99 in the fall than it’s pretty clear that Stringer considers the game division to be a nuisance. It’s a shame they built up such a great brand over more than a decade and are flushing it down the toilet in record timing.
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:25 pm
$399.99 is too much to hope for, I think. If Sony plays it very aggressively, we might see $449.99, but I just can’t believe they’d be able to knock down to $399.99 in one year if their original build cost was truly over $800.