Comments on: Revisiting E3’s biggest press conferences, including the Sony “price cut”

By: Q&A: Microsoft game exec John Schappert talks about Xbox Live, Netflix deal, and Blu-ray » VentureBeat

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:10:56 +0000

[...] social experiences, a new user interface, and games for the core and games for the masses. VB: With the recent price moves, there is less of a price spread between your mainstay unit and Sony’s mainstay unit. JS: In [...]

By: Q&A: Microsoft game exec John Schappert talks about Xbox Live, Netflix deal, and Blu-ray » VentureBeat

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:10:56 +0000

By: E3 perspective: An interview with John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts » VentureBeat

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:27:20 +0000

[...] I didn’t go to their event because I was busy with investors. And this is an industry where “non-pricing pricing events” are what happen before “pricing events.” It’s up to them. In terms of the long arc of the [...]

By: Monthly NPD video game sales: Sony overtakes Microsoft, Nintendo keeps rocking » VentureBeat

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:21:43 +0000

[...] introduced a new model and discounted its models with smaller hard drives on Sunday, while Sony announced a plan on Tuesday to rejigger its own PS 3 offering. Nintendo, meanwhile, is selling out its machines still and has no plans to prices, said Cammie [...]

By: This is Your Console PlayGround » A closer look at E3 press conferences and the so-called price cuts

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:27:32 +0000

[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt“I don’t think Microsoft has to do anything with its current prices,” said Billy Pidgeon, an analyst at International Data Corp. Nintendo, of course, could care less as it still sells out just about every Wii console it makes for $249. … [...]

By: Microsoft’s New Wow « It May Even Be In Our Time

Microsoft’s New Wow « It May Even Be In Our Time — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:38:40 +0000

[...] I feel this being more or less a confirmation of Microsoft’s less-than-honorable payoff to Square. It also details some of Sony’s [...]

By: A closer look at E3 press conferences and the so-called price cuts

A closer look at E3 press conferences and the so-called price cuts — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:42:02 +0000

[...] venturebeat.com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Yesterday I wrote about how Sony finally got serious about the console war by cutting its price by $100. Well, it wasn’t true. To word it that way makes it seem like consumers are getting a great deal. They’re not. Rather, Sony is unloading an expensive albatross around its neck. To his credit, Jack Tretton, president of Sony’s game division, didn’t call it a price cut. That would be true if Sony cut its price on the 80-gigabyte machine it now sells for $499 down to $399. At first glance, that [...]