Technology Lifestyle I’ve played the PS3 and it’s INSANE! | I’ve played the PS3 and it’s INSANE! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Friday, 17 November 2006 | |
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Of course, Sony are no slouches when it comes to gaming, with the PS2 still flying off the shelves, especially thanks to their incredible range of ‘social games’, as Michael Ephraim, Chief of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia calls them. At the special pre-launch for gaming journalists in Australia, he spoke of the massive number of sales games like SingStar, Buzz and others have generated for Sony, and they’re all optimized for the PS2 platform. He also expressed Sony’s regret that there weren’t any PS3 consoles until next year for Australia, but explained that unfortunately production issues had caused the situation to happen.
It’s what had happened with the PS1, PS2 and PSP in Australia, said he, and while Sony really did want a global launch, these things were always a challenge for any company. So while the focus is on the PS3 in Japan and the US, with a special previews and other PS3 activities leading up to the March 2007 launch for us here in Australia, the PS2 is the Australian focus for Sony this Christmas
Couple this with the PS2 at a record low price of AUD $199 (and even cheaper in stores), it’s these social games which Ephraim explained that anyone in the family could play, from the youngsters to grandparents. Is Sony taking a leaf out of Nintendo’s playbook with the claim of gaming for anyone, or has Nintendo copied Sony? |
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