Sunday, August 26, 2007
More Sony PlayStation news
As Scott Adams once warned, in this day and age "Information is gushing at our brain(s) like a firehose aimed at a teacup."
Case in point here: The Clarion hardly finished posting what was ostensibly an update to an older post about the battle to be the dominant gaming system, when we discovered two fascinating new memes of information about Sony’s PlayStations.
When the Clarion noted that Sony's habit was to come from behind on sales and end up, eventually, the winner of total sales, we hardly appreciated just how long the sales period was. Then we encountered a Reuters article this evening that noted the PlayStation 2 is still outselling the PlayStation 3, by a ratio of 4 to 1 in the second quarter of 2007. Even more remarkably new games will continue to be developed for the PlayStation 2 for as long as two or three more years.
The other data was in an article from the Financial Times. They ran an article detailing some of the wow-zer multimedia add-ons Sony is making available on the European version of the PS 3. These add-ons are not yet available in the U.S. and Japan, but Sony has partnered with British Sky Broadcasting to introduce an add-on device to the PlayStation 3 that allows it to function as a digital video tuner/receiver and a digital video recorder. It will be possible to transfer recorded programs from the PS 3 to Sony’s hand held PlayStation Portable.
Sony also announced that it had separately partnered with BT Group (UK telecoms leader) to allow Sony’s hand held PSP units to make voice and video calls, as well as handle instant messaging, and function as satellite navigation devices. Now that’s futuristic convergence.
Case in point here: The Clarion hardly finished posting what was ostensibly an update to an older post about the battle to be the dominant gaming system, when we discovered two fascinating new memes of information about Sony’s PlayStations.
When the Clarion noted that Sony's habit was to come from behind on sales and end up, eventually, the winner of total sales, we hardly appreciated just how long the sales period was. Then we encountered a Reuters article this evening that noted the PlayStation 2 is still outselling the PlayStation 3, by a ratio of 4 to 1 in the second quarter of 2007. Even more remarkably new games will continue to be developed for the PlayStation 2 for as long as two or three more years.
The other data was in an article from the Financial Times. They ran an article detailing some of the wow-zer multimedia add-ons Sony is making available on the European version of the PS 3. These add-ons are not yet available in the U.S. and Japan, but Sony has partnered with British Sky Broadcasting to introduce an add-on device to the PlayStation 3 that allows it to function as a digital video tuner/receiver and a digital video recorder. It will be possible to transfer recorded programs from the PS 3 to Sony’s hand held PlayStation Portable.
Sony also announced that it had separately partnered with BT Group (UK telecoms leader) to allow Sony’s hand held PSP units to make voice and video calls, as well as handle instant messaging, and function as satellite navigation devices. Now that’s futuristic convergence.
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