It’s with enthusiasm, eagerness and, honestly, a little bit of relief that we lift the cover on our first official Sony Computer Entertainment America company blog – welcome and sorry for the wait.
PlayStation.Blog is a bit of work in progress, we see it as a place where we can share with you our company’s collective insights, opinions and perspectives on all things related to SCEA, PlayStation and the industry we play in.
At the moment, we’re thinking about sharing all sorts of things here, ranging from product news and title announcements to developer updates and industry opinion posts – all of which will come straight from the people here inside SCEA who are working, thinking and playing with this stuff every day. Look to the categories on the sidebar for some initial thoughts we have on future post themes.
Now, what we’ve learned, perhaps the hard way, is that a blog like this is really about you and the things you want to hear, share and discuss with us. With that in mind, you’ll notice that comments are enabled – and encouraged – so tell us what you want to see here and we’ll do our best to make it happen. And yes, like most blogs, we have a comment policy, please just keep this in mind when you’re leaving a comment.
We imagine it may take us a short while to find our pace with this, but bear with us as we get underway and we promise we’ll quickly make this blog a valuable stop in your daily info hunt for PlayStation news.
Like we’ve said, we’re excited to finally have a platform for conversation and connection. Much more is in the works too, so we hope you’ll consider sticking around, kicking the tires of our shiny new blog and sharing what you think.
Enjoy!
lmao@ the idiots naming themselves Ken Kutagari. you’re what we call extra lame. it doesn’t get any more pathetic. talk about a hater.
oh and to lego island 2…stop lying…it’s way too obvious you don’t own a PS3. lmao@ “i’ve played many PS3 games at the game shop.” man…shut the h3ll up. you WISH you had a PS3. tard.
Woman might not play, but they have children who do, PS1 & 2 used to appeal to children under 12, Xbox for the older ones, PS3 is going for the Xbox market, but in doing so have let down all the younger gamers by being to expensive, there is nothing left for them to do but go buy a Wii.
Well done Sony.
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Loving this design. Good job. :)
@SDkngsht
I INVENTED the Emotion Engine, you little jerk, so you should just shut up right now. I know what I’m talking about and you clearly don’t. The PS3’s poor sales, technological inferiority, and lack of exclusives have created a veritable “forest of failure” from which it cannot escape. This is not what I planned for and would not be happening if I still held a genuine leadership position at Sony.
@Ken_Kutaragi
Get a life. This is not what the blog was created for.
Instead of helping them you are just giving them more work, because they need to waste time reading your posts.
And to the other ones too.
Come on. Grow up.
Give us XMB support in games and Custom Music in GAMES!
I’ve been waiting for this since you showed in before the PS3 even came out. I don’t understand why it hasn’t been activated yet? Was that just for show? Come on we would really love this added very soon and would shut up a lot of the box supporters.
lmao@ the level of dedication you have to being a loser.
but it’s fine. since you want to spit nonsense. in its first 5 months on the market the PS3 sold more than the PS1, PS2, and even 50,000 more units than the the 360 did. poor sales? it’s already doing better in its first 6 months than the PS2 did. and we all know the PS2 is the king of all consoles in terms of units sold. and like you said…it’s done all this WITHOUT any huge big name exclusives. now that the game library is actually starting to grow and bluray is officially kicking HD DVD’s @ss…it’s a matter of time tard.
oh…
not to mention i’ve had a PS3 since launch and haven’t had to send it back twice because of some “red ring of death.” lol.
grow up. get your facts straight. get a life and if you can afford one get a PS3 to play while you mail in your 360 every year.
i’m done responding. idiot.
hey SDkngsht arent u from Gamespot. i recognize u from the ps3 forums, yea i personally am a huge sony fan and post usually only on that forum because system wars sucks. i agree with u about xboxlive king and adropacrich2.
wtf ken?
u arent the real ken, so dont act like u are.
u wouldnt be bashing sony like an xbot if u were. u would probably be more intelligent and more mature and actually join ms or just leave the game industry completely. im betting u get banned for acting as ken tbh
Good work Sony , we also would like to present this petition please take the time to read it sicn PD is part of Sony and we havn’t been able to get through to them :(
http://www.petitiononline.com/gt5GTP/petition.html
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We want an update.
@ adood84, gran turismo blows. and sony way to take screenshots of pgr3 and post them in an add for gran turismo. i was not embarassed to own sony products that day?! i fail to see the importance of your petition on most levels.
May I make a suggestion?
Add a report feature to be able to report users that are trying to ruin the experience for everyone or that are breaking the comment policy.
it would make it easier for the moderators as well since they wouldnt have to read through every single post to find the ones that are not appropiate.
@SDkngsht
False. The monthly sales for the PS3 only surpassed the 360’s during months three and five, leading to third place sales among the three consoles. The reasons for these sharp increases and decreases in sales were due to the “boom and bust” launches in territories like Europe, where the PS3 sold a record number of copies the first week, but had sales drop by over 84% the subsequent week. Real world knowledge of the videogame market is why I’m a respected industry figure and you are not.
Janos, excellent suggestion
when r they going 2 update the ps3 so you can play music and your game at the same time
come on nextgen
Congrats Sony for this blog! We’ve been anxiously waiting for something like this, and I look forward to using this blog with great anticipation!
@Janos2615
I second that
now, hopefuly we will get the real scoop about what’s going in the Sony camp for once! lets hope this is the begining of a long relationship!!!
:) Thanks for creating a Blog.
I for one think the PS3 sales are going about quite nicely, especially in the European territories. I realize the other consoles are selling a lot more, and in my eye there are 2 reasons for this:
1—The 360 is unreliable, and although it sells well, the main reason is due in fact to people needing to get replacements for their old worn down system.
2—The Wii is cheap, and more family friendly at first glance. And, it’s Nintendo, a lot of parents would be willing to buy one for their kids just so they can play it as well. That’s the power of Mario
And I also think there is one major reason that is holding the PS3 back:Software
In the next few months we are finally going to start seeing plenty of games coming out. Vauluable games too, not games like NBA or Def Jam that people wouldn’t pay 50 for, let alone the 60 dollar price. I can think of 3 games right now:
Warhawk
Drake’s Fortune
Heavenly Sword
And some one’s for the future:
GT5 (GT is my personal favorite series)
MGS4
Killzone 2
And of course another big game:
The Agency
I can’t WAIT for that last one to be released. I also feel that the release of Home will have an impact on PS3 sales.
Bottome line: Give it another 1 and maybe a few months, and the PS3 will be selling quite well, along with games. And remember that the PS Store will also be a big thing, give us demos for crying out loud! And thank you for making all these network downloadable games, those are what seperate the men from the boys.
Don’t know about you guys, but I’d take Warhawk over an XBL Arcade Pac-Man anyday. Thanks for reading!
P$3 fans !
You all seam to forget sonys best match to halo 3 is Killzone. Hahaha. Why would you want more of that crap it sucks. IGN gave the 1st one 7.1 haloCE got 9.2 so you guys have to wake up and face the fact like i do, that we wasted our own cash on a box, bigger that xbox 1. Some guy said live was laggy well whats his connection ? He’s prob cnt aford a good one as he had to take a loan out for his P$3 !
HA
Sony
Sucks
Email me at- j.-@hotmail.co.uk
Love ya
PS- Xbox 360 kicks the ps3’s ass,
Home= [DELETED]
ohh a rip offf of 2nd life
Cya im off to play forza motosport 2 for my 360
add my Gamer Tag – Mystic Chainsaw
love
XBox LiVe King
Who
Hates Sony PS3
I love my PS2 not my PS3
@ xbox live king
have fun, forza motorsport 2 is nothing compared to gran turismo. The build quality and reliability is far superior to the x360. People i know have gone trough 3 xbox 360’s in the time ive owned my ps3. PS home a brilliant and innovative idea.
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Everyone spam that guys email. It is:
j.-@hotmail.co.uk
Let’s all put him on mailing lists for shemale poon, ringtones, etc.
halo this halo that halo sucks
socom & warhawk thats whats up
I’m sure everyone and their mother has already posted questions that I have to ask, but I’ll throw one out their anyway.
… Team ICO? Game(s)? WHEN!?
I heard a little while ago that they might be working on two games at once. I assume at the very least they are working on one. SO, when do We (the stark raving mad fans of ICO/SotC) get to see their next game?
And good job on getting this blog up. I hope that it really does become a conduit through which we can glean info on all things Playstation and that you guys get a better idea of what the fans want out of Playstation.
Thats right Chase, SOCOM. Halo is a good game but i dont think its that fun compared to the Socom series. Socom: Confrontation is the game this year.
Like i would put my real email on here ! Spazs !
Just like to say over 100,000 still play halo 2 for xbox, so [DELETED]. Warhawk is good but it will come to 360, it cnt aford to stay with Sony as Sony are losing money and lots of it !
Halo is overated. A few of my friends play it and they wanted me to play it becasue I play RFOM. After playing both halos, and taking carefully into consideration these are both last gen games, I had to fairly compare them to games for the PS2. So I chose Killzone, and Socom. My take:
Halo has poor graphics
bad respawn system
dull and noncreative weapons
mundane and little-effort-put-into-levels
crappy vehicle mechanics
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and the list goes on and on. Yea Sony has a strong and loyal fanbase, but Microsoft’s XBL service is full of morons, and you CAN’T beat that. So in terms of online service Microsoft does better, apparently.
i just think halo is way overrated
i cant wait socom & warhawk already paid for
Don’t feed the trolls, they’ll go away/be banned.
Oh !! Thanx a Lot !
its time 2 watch an hd movie on my xbox360 my bay they dont have an hd playing my bad again i got 2 spend an extra 199 more damm what next
ok… an official blog…. good.
Now all you need is some decent content coming out this summer for the blog to talk about.
Shinblade- Lair, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, and the Darkness will do for a start. But yeah, things will really get going around August-September. Hopefully they’ll be able to fill us in on more games coming out this summer and fall.
There are a lot of good games out there. Halo is simply one of them.
It’s easy to hate a game that doesn’t feel right. It takes time. I usually try to spend the required time with a the game until I consider myself “good”.
That’s what happen with Halo (and ESPN 2k5)
I didn’t like either of these games until I MADE myself become good at them, and I’m glad I did.
So, no matter what game it is – get good at it before you judge it. That’s what the true gamers do.
I’d like some news…please!
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Finally, its good to see you guys embracing new technology. I look forward to checking out this site several times a day.
congrats on the blog, great to see sony starting to better interact with its customer base. i’ll be reading. [:
Very good idea to keep us updated with a weblog. I hope it will work out great.
I think now is the time to first celebrate this thing, and to ask questions later…
(things like: why does sony lose so many exclusive games? and: could the SCEE playstation store PLEASE have more things then now?
what up Shifty? yeah i also post on gamespot.
and i agree with the report feature to get people that have no business here out. like i said i’m done responding but people who are blatantly here just to cause problems and not contribute to the improvement of the PS brand and customer experience should be banned. not saying anyone who says they don’t like something or complains.
i’m talking about the people that are clearly immature and just here to start nonsense with people.
Has anyone played Resistance: Fall of Man? I love that game, I think it is a great FPS and in my opinion, way better than than the overrated Halo. Good Job Insomniac for making an amazing game.
p.s. Tell me what you guys think about Resistance.
[]^X0
Its strikes me a funny its just so stupid that posters like Kenkutaragi and XboxKing need to even post out there buts here.
If the Xbox is all that why arnt they playing it I dont spend my time looking for Xbox sites just to trash talk.
Just tells us that its just absolutely boring playing on Xbox so glad to hear your post makes me feel even better for never buying one.
I dotn even get why users like “Ken Kutaragi” & “xbox live king” are wasting their time trolling here.
They got sooo many quality games on the xbox 360 and YET they choose go here and create a crap atmosphere. Hilarious lol.
agreed SDkngsht :)
this is just a rant basically, since i found out that the PS3 has been hacked, got this from a ps3.qj.net. not sure if im alllowed to post links, so have mercy on me mods. lol. here goes:
I don’t see the reason to hack the PS3. The games are just to massive and in the long run, its not worth it. Considering I paid a whopping 0 for it, I don ‘t want it to be ruined and then my warranty void. And all the pirated games, that could possibly appear would just keep taking the money Sony needs to make all their games, so in turn the games would be *****. With the PSP though, that’s a different story, since its not AS expensive, and not as hard to hack and stuff. I support homebrew, and I think it’s great to have it, and in my opinion Sony should allow it on both the PSP and PS3, just not pirated games. The homebrew would encourage people to write their own games at early stages which in return could make better next-gen game developers so we would have even better games than now! Homebrew is a great future for home consoles and handhelds alike.
Just for the record, a few features I and I’m sure alot of other people would like to see, so Sony please consider the following:
1. In-game XMB access, for checking messages, surfing the net real quick for a guide or something, and turning music on/off.
2. An RSS Channel, I mean come on, the PSP has one, so shouldn’t the PS3?
3. Alot more games/ game demos for d/l on the American PSN. Along with some Final Fantasy PS1 games. =]
4. Option of password protecting the user accounts on your PS3.
5. A dynamic normalizer and an equalizer.
6. Ability to selct different screensavers.
7. WALLPAPER.
8. Ability to slect your own theme instead of i t changing month to month.
9. Sequential playing of video files.
10. Selecting an image from your harddrive for your online avatar.
11. Multiple chat sessions.
12. Date and time shown like on the PSP, along with the controllers battery charge.
13. A completely up to date flashplayer for the web browser, so that you arent as limited.
That about wraps it up, I know that it’s alot, but those are most of the features that im pretty sure a majority of the PS3 population would want. PLEASE WORK THESE INTO UPDATES SONY!
=]
what do you guys think?