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Sony at the IFA expo in Germany just annouced its new walkman line. Plays videos, supports windows media player 11, mp3 and more. Details are lite now but more as news hits

Talk about rip the gaming consumer a new one. first sony announces a price cut which will last a month then the take it away from you. good lord help us from all these tech gaint who feel they can drain us out of all our cash.

SCEE president David Reeves has told GamesIndustry.biz that the 60GB PlayStation 3 will no longer be available in the US after stock sells out - which he predicts will occur by the end of the month.

Reeves was speaking at an E3 event to announce the introduction of a new PS3 bundle in Europe. When asked about possible criticisms over whether SCEE should have given consumers the option to pay a lower price, as SCEA has done, he replied, “Well, they’re not really are they, because what the US are offering from the 1st of August is a USD 599 version with one game.

I call for all games out there to boy cut  sony and stoy themfrom doing such rubbish to its consumers. this is totally ridiculous why. So that sony can have another price cut in the fall in time for thanksgiving and christmas and justify to us and shareholders than their system is cheap and affordable.

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Wired article

“Thumb candy for dummies.”

That’s how, in 2003, Time magazine described Nintendo President Satoru Iwata’s conviction that what consumers really wanted out of video games was simpler, more accessible entertainment — not the photorealistic graphics and massive online worlds that the company’s competitors were chasing.

Less than four years later, the machine that Iwata built around his controversial strategy is the world’s top-selling game console. In the United States, Nintendo’s $250 Wii sold 360,000 units in April, while Sony’s $600, graphically intense, Blu-ray-powered PlayStation 3 props up the bottom of the sales chart like a doorstop, with 82,000 units sold. Read the rest of this entry »

Screw the console wars, Fortune says they are over! The entire article has talk from Ubisoft, EA, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, and even Miyamoto himself. There’s a bit of info concerning how much money Nintendo makes on each console sold, how expensive it is to make a Wiimote, and more. I’ll have to pick up a copy of this issue to get a better look at the details. You can read a quick summary at the link below.

Link. ( via gonintendo)

This rumor has been lingering around the web for a while, also over the last couple of days Sony announced it would introduce the PS3 to South-Korea with a 80 gig model with some sort of IPTV service. So the introduction of the 80 gig to the US market will be welcome info to PlayStation fans. Hopeful we get a price drop of the 60 gig version.

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