Game Publishers Pressure Sony to Slash Price of Playstation 3

Posted by | March 16, 2009

Who would have thought? Priced about $150 more than the incredibly fun and exciting Nintendo Wii, and a good $200 more than the entry level, yet highly social, version of the Xbox 360, Sony’s Playstation 3 makes for a hard sell. Costing something around two paychecks and a first-born son, the Playstation 3 has come up short in the console wars.

This has caused developers for the platform to consider if their money and time might be better spent courting a larger installed base, like, say, that Wii system that’s been flying off the shelves for the past two years. While the Playstation 3 is perhaps the most powerful of the current generation of machines, power alone doesn’t make for good games. Consumers have been teaching this lesson to Sony in the form of falling market share for a while now.

Developers have urged …

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