Engadget has a poll on its website asking which is the best blu-ray player out there? Unsurprisingly the PS3 is currently in the lead. Way, way in the lead. For what it’s worth, I don’t think I’d ever consider anything else for playing blu-ray disks. With the bluetooth remote the PS3 does an amazing job, has fantastic picture quality and is a pretty good media centre too boot. Oh, and apparently it also plays games.
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I haven’t really been keeping up on the games world too much lately but I came across this in my news reader this morning. It’s a new game for the PS3 that looks simply gorgeous. It’s an old fashioned platform style fantasy game, only with modern 3d graphics and a pretty good physics engine. Think ghosts and goblins meets little big planet.
Europe Finally Gets its own Playstation Blog
The New Playstation Europe Blog:
Hello and welcome to the brand new official PlayStation.Blog from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE). For the loyal PlayStation fans, the title of this post echoes what Patrick Seybold said when the US blog launched back in 2007. Yes, it’s taken us a while to get here and we know that many of you have been asking for a European blog for a long time now. We’ve been listening and thank you all for your patience and support whilst we’ve been getting everything ready for today’s launch. Now that we’re here, it’s our hope that this blog will grow to become a one-stop-shop for your daily fix of PlayStation news from across the SCEE region.
[Read PlayStation.Blog.Europe : Your daily fix of PlayStation news from across the SCEE region]
An Interesting Opportunity for Sony to Reboot The Walkman Brand
It’s been a while since the launch of a Sony Walkman made headlines but its latest offering, the new x-series Walkman has reviewers somewhat excited. The new Walkman, despite its OLED screen, and despite its internet access, wifi and youtube, may be attempting to compete against Apple’s iPod touch, but its biggest strength is as a music player. It’s unclear if that is deliberate but it does present is an interesting point. As Apple moves it’s iPod line to be more of a multimedia handheld computing and gaming device, the market is opening up once again for a premium audio product that caters for those who want high quality audio in a portable device. Something, unfortunately Apple seems to no longer be interested in.
Before I go any further her, let me get one thing straight. Just because Apple makes the iPod, that doesn’t preclude anyone else from ever making a portable music player, and just because I’m an apple fan, it doesn’t mean I or you have to bash everything every other company makes. And just because I may say good things about a competitor doesn’t mean I’m bashing the iPod or Apple. If you can’t accept any of those simple concepts then please, don’t read any further, you won’t like it.
PS3 Sales Figures in 2008 might surprise you.
So the PS3 is going no where right? It’s failed to compete with Microsoft and Nintendo, Right? I mean that’s what you would believe from reading the writings of numerous analysts and technology blogs. So you might be a little surprised to read that the PS3 sold almost as many units 10.77 million as the xbox 360 did last year (10.8 million). If Sony managed to pull that off considering that Microsoft are practically giving the damn things away, then I think the future of Sony’s console is far rosier that some people want you to think.
Which bares another important question… why do so many people want you to think the PS3 is doing badly? Are people just that anti Sony ? Is it just lazy journalism? I just don’t get where this is coming from. It’s like all those people who keep trying to tell you that the iPod is over the hill and done for, and Apple keeps posting record quarter after record quarter.
Sony’s PlayStation 3 up 60% in sales from last year
For all those people out there predicting the demise of the PS3, your predictions and musings are about as accurate as those predicting the demise of blu-ray. From PlayStation Universe (PSU):
With the Wall Street Journal and other media outlets reporting doom and gloom for the black behemoth, sales data has indicated that PS3 sales are actually up 60 percent in comparison to 2008. That’s quite the feat considering the system is often considers a little too pricey for the average consumer.
The tech industry, particularly the north american technology industry is so blinkered by the way the computer industry works, the only merit of success they understand is market share. They compare the sale of the Nintendo Wii, which never really competed with the PS3, and the xbox 360, which is nearing the end of it’s life, so Microsoft are able to sell them for a song, and have re-positioned the console against the wii. They’re selling them for next to nothing and the so called pundits are saying this is a sign of Sony’s failure. This new data shows that the 360 price drop has not taken sales away from the PS3 and probably impacted Wii growth more than anything.
[Read Sony's PlayStation 3 up 60% in sales from last year :: PlayStation Universe (PSU)]
PS3 Numbers aren’t that bad
Like the” blu-ray is dying” myth, there’s another one that seems to be doing the rounds at the moment, and that is that the PS3 is dying, going no where and doomed to failure. Except, like with the blu-ray myth the numbers just don’t add up. First of all, if you consider that the main competitor for the PS3 is the Xbox 360, and look at the total sales to dat you might be surprised.
According to VGChartz.com the Xbox 360 has sold 25 million units and the PS3 has sold 18 million units. If you consider the fact that the PS3 is a year younger than the 360 then this puts them on pretty even footing on a per year basis. (In fact vgcharts has a handy graph that shows sales from launch, and from that respect the PS3 is actually selling faster than the 360)It’s even more impressive when you consider the price difference. Of course the numbers in North America give the 360 a strong advantage, but then, despite what some pundits might like to think, there is a world outside the USA and Canada.
Another thing to consider is, what is the measure of success. For some of the pundits out there, the only measure of success is market share, and only if you’re in first position can you consider yourself successful. But we’ve been down this road before with Apple. No one considerers the mac a failure any more despite its market share compared to Windows. For years people called on Apple to lower their prices to gain market share, but Apple instead chose a more quantifiable measure of success – actual revenue, which when you think about it is what a company is there for.
Blu-ray Sales Off The Charts
From IGN:
The holiday shopping season is at full intensity and consumers have made it clear that above all else they want a Blu-ray player in their stocking. Numerous reports have shown a dramatic increase in Blu-ray sales this year, with experts estimating that many more thousands of units will be cleared from the shelves before the New Year.
So much for the whole “blu-ray is dead” bull that’s been doing the rounds. But wait…there’s more….
Early today, the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) in conjunction with Greenfield Online, announced the findings of their survey data that show that HDTV users have named the Blu-ray as their most sought after holiday wish list item for 2008. In addition, stats from NPD Group and DisplaySearch show that 147,000 Blu-ray players were purchased during Thanksgiving week, a figure up by 300% over last year’s sales. Black Friday Blu-ray sales were also off the chart according to an independent DEG analysis, with sales more than quadrupled that of what was sold in 2007.
There’s lots more goodness for blu-ray supporters in the article, and it’s well worth a read.
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