Sony has moved to dispel Microsoft claims that Xbox is outselling the PS3 in Europe, revealing internal figures that say its console has sold 300,000 more units than Xbox 360 in PAL territories.
And the company doesn’t feel it has to follow Microsoft and further ignite consumer interest with a price cut of its own anytime soon.
SCEE president David Reeves told MCV that Sony will remain focused on the value offered by the PS3 and its extra functions and services – at its current £299 SRP.
“No we are not going to go down in price; neither are we going to go down in price on PS3 in spring time either. Absolutely not, whatever you might have heard to the contrary,” he said – referring to purported ‘leaks’ from a Sony meeting two weeks ago that claimed Sony had a price cut planned for March ‘09.
SCEE has now implemented their own PSN integration with EU.PlayStation.com, and based on community feedback thus far it actually appears better than the US version.
To quote: "My PlayStation Network" allows PS3 owners to login with their PSN ID and create a basic "Portable ID". While this is pretty bare right now, with only the ability to set your current mood, favorite game and change your background theme, the site promises that more features will be coming.
This includes online Trophy comparisons, a much-requested feature ever since they were first announced during the Summer. My PlayStation Network also lets you check your friends list and is much more user friendly that the US version, which splits your friends list into pages.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe launched a competition today where development studios are invited to submit prototypes for a chance to win 10,000 GBP awarded to the five selected, totaling £50,000.
To quote: Sony is to launch the Get in the Game project tonight, offering five developers the chance to receive GBP 10,000 to prototype new content for the PlayStation Network.
The company will be holding a free workshop in December to provide better insight into working with the format holder, with attendees invited to pitch ideas to a panel of Sony execs and producers.
The panel will then select five companies to receive the GBP 10,000 to prototype their ideas over the first three months of 2009. Prototypes will then be shown to Sony Europe with the possibility of going into full production.
The competition is in conjunction with Northwest Vision and Media and is designed to support the games industry in the Northwest region.
Courtesy of Sony's semi-official blog ThreeSpeech: Christmassy news from SCEE... you’ll be gathering round the PlayStation 3 to sing this Christmas.
Press Release: Treat yourself to a Festive Fun SongPack for SingStar® from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
Invite your friends around, hang out the mistletoe, serve up some Christmas treats and sing the night away with these five magical Christmas hits, all in one easily downloadable SongPack from SingStore™.
Arriving just in time for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) on November 27th - these five festive hits will be sure to spice up any holiday do!
Turn on the Christmas tree lights and switch on your PS3 for an evening of singing and merry-making. Which Festive Fun track will be your favourite on the SingStar mic these holidays? Will you join Babyface for a ‘Sleigh Ride’ through the snow, or belt out a true 80’s holiday classic with Shakin’ Stevens ‘Merry Christmas Everyone... More »
Home recently expanded adding in an additional 100,000 gamers. Although still in its closed BETA phase, Home is gearing up to soon be released in a public BETA phase in which (hopefully) anyone will have access to.
We have come across on YouTube a 20 minute PlayStation Home 1.0 walkthrough that shows off all the new spaces within Home. It even comes with commentary to answer so of the questions you may have while you're watching the video.
Multi-part video below, courtesy of DeltaHawk12 via YouTube!
In attendance at the Sony Computer Entertainment Staff Annual Briefing held yesterday in London, an anonymous source going by the alias of ‘Legends’ has just tipped us off on all manner of huge PlayStation news. We must make it clear that D+PAD weren’t in attendance, but we have no reason to doubt the validity of Legends’ claims.
Price cuts coming in March, PS3 performing better in Europe than 360
Our source tells us that SCEE President David Reeves took to the stage to discuss the current economic climate and how it shouldn’t affect PlayStation business, though was quick to mention that SCEE will be getting more competitive on price from March 2009 onwards. Our guess is that we’ll be seeing price cuts to PS3 around Easter to tie in with the release of Killzone 2…
Reeves then went on to say that the PS3 has a bigger install base than the 360 in PAL territories, and that the install base gap will significantly increase ... More »
If you're one of the lucky ones, in your inbox you should receive a PlayStation Home BETA invite to the much-anticipated PS3 Home BETA. This chap has recieved an e-mail as of 5:46 EST, and some should be receiving their invites as we speak, good luck!!!
To quote SCEE community team manager TedTheDog's announcement on the official PlayStation boards:
Last night v1.0 went live in the beta and our existing testers are now up and running with it.
Today, Friday 21st, over a hundred thousand invitations will be sent across the SCEE region and next Thursday the 27th another larger batch of invitations will be sent.
If you are lucky enough to get an invitation then please note there will be load test event on each of the two evenings.
For everyone else Open Beta will not be far behind.
Eight Days is cancelled. We know that. However, before it's cancellation, we've barley seen any footage on the game, leaving a lot of us wondering what it would have been like.
Jim Jagger, 3D animator for the game, has released a demo reel containing footage of Eight Days, and boy did it look good.
There's some footage of EyePet and Looney Toons in there, but most of it consists of Eight Days gameplay footage.
The cover manuvers looked fantastic and I could not see exactly why SCEE would stop production on this. Even if it lacked multiplayer, they could of just, you know, added it. So take a look see for yourself, what Eight Days could have been.
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