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Will you believe that mine is Sony persecution, but after seeing yesterday's conference of Microsoft and the time that was set, at about 19:30 Spanish time, it seems Sony disastrous. Not only are the past, but also showcase their latest products at 1 am Spanish time and only going to transmit on PlayStation Home. Instead of looking for the best time for Europeans and give greater facilities to view, take the opportunity to promote Home ... In short, they know

By the way, Nintendo is the 18:00 Spanish time. Do you know where to watch live? It seems to be confirming new Mario game. What Microsoft has been of fireworks and we must fight with all the arsenal to not end up as the big winners of this E3.

I recognize that many sticks to Sony, because they have committed many errors with PS3, but I try to be fair and when do things right, I admit . I have and I read out there that is imminent price drop as we ask all users and partners of Sony . If so (I say it is pretty safe) would be big news, but also make it the 26 or March 27, would already be the best, since these are the dates for which I bet in my article of January 13 . If I'm going to get hit happier than Michael Patcher with a pirated Xbox

In Akihabara say media related to Sony say that the rebate will be $ 100 and will occur on March 20. I, for they say that I'm anti-Sony, I buy a new PS3 (the first one cost me 500 euros) in lower, so that will contribute doubly to the cause (clarified that the policy is to give Sony games without problems, but no hardware). The "old" donate a relative's to record the tv with Play TV and see movies in HD.

Ah! And do not forget the value of a euro for Sony, Micro $ oft and Noentiendo!

Looking through the new catalog of Media Markt I see a range of PlayStation 3 80 GB with the new controller with vibration and games Little Big Planet and Fallout 3 (For me the game of the year) for 399 euros. We talk about when PS3 will drop in price, but it seems to me as a price drop fledged masked by the addition of two sets, one of the house.

One thing is clear: Sony needs to lower the price if you do not want to lose. The question is when and the answer is soon, very soon for many reasons. Following the price cut of Xbox 360 and no more room for maneuver. There are high hopes on the horizon except Killzone 2 and PlayStation Home is not the consoles sold-waiting. To compete and be no more than the global number one PlayStation 2 on the third and last in this generation can only play and with the price.
It's funny that the big plus that brought the PS3, the blu-ray, the big selling point, has become his great burden. Wii is the big winner ( winners are not Xbox 360 and Wii Mr. Greenberg, is Wii solo ) and the Xbox, which had all the papers back to be again the big loser appears to be consolidated in second place thanks to Microsoft's financial muscle, its wide acceptance in North America and its ability to cut parts faster than their competitors. PS3 is stuck in no man's land, with games that have no direct gameplay and Wii outstrip anything like the Xbox 360. Is that they have no choice but to lower the price.

At Christmas there was no point decrease. Purchases are also going to produce and not forget that Sony loses money on every PS3 sold, then try to recover money with games. I bet that the drop will occur in late March, just at the end of the first quarter and the doors of its fiscal year end.
More reasons to think that the fall is imminent: A) The console has been going since late 2007 at this price , it is not much time to play with this variable. B) People are waiting for further falls as rain in May and what people want is, after all, what counts. C) Sony has done a great job lowering components . Though outwardly as you see, inside the machine you buy today with mine, backwards compatible with PS3, seem very little. D) Sony will present the second worst financial results in its history . Its goal is profitability, but if its leaders are a little smart will not lead to the urgent short-term and see the need to increase sales now to avoid being last. Wii has had an excellent December, Xbox has increased its sales by 19% and PS3 has fallen around 10%. Something must be done gentlemen! E) We are in an acute economic crisis, with consequences as yet undiscovered and not let the oven to 400 euros as well.
My conclusion is that it will drop at the end of March. Gamble of all I would say around 26 or 27. You see I'm not like a typical football player, who does not get wet or hot tub ¿Will Succeed?

Update: I encourage you to take a look at Joystiq, which sums up the disastrous 2008 that Sony has.

Update 2: I was just in the center and there is an offer Game PlayStation 3 plus 2 blu-ray movies for 356 euros. As you see, is another price drop, but has not been officially announced via press release. Will be true what I heard about a month ago that sales were going very badly and after Christmas would not be forced to lower prices.

Larry Hryb, Director of Programming for Xbox Live at Microsoft, better known by his gamertag and Blog Major Nelson, has released the top 10 first tasks you should do about updating your console and receive the New Xbox Experience (NXE, in their acronym in English) which has just been released. If you know English, go directly to your article . If not, I'll quickly summarize:

1) The brikindance! Out of silicones, step 1 is logically create your avatar. After you create do not forget to take a picture that will appear in your profile.
2) Explore the new system a bit.
3) Check out the holidays and talk up to 7 friends at once. You can also organize your own party.
4) Topics: See if any of the new you like. Among other topics you will find Xbox 360, Spectrum, Day and night ...
5) Bazaar: Check out the new bazaar. Maybe there is some new demo available or movie that you like.
6) Netflix is ​​the new supplier of High Definition movies. Currently only available to U.S. users, so skip to step 7.
7) Try to install a game on the hard disk to see if you notice less load times. It can be done from My Xbox. While copying, you can keep browsing and even go to a party.
8) Delete the games you have not managed to score. Has occurred to me that I have started a game, I was hooked and just tried it. In this case you have not gotten gains or punctuation and you may want to delete from your list of games played. Now you can do.
9) If at any time you press the button on the remote Xbox 360, you'll go to a new menu with more options.
10) Check out the games created by the user community.

Well, NXE is now available. Now the ball is on the roof of Sony, which should counteract the NXE with PlayStation Home now, without further delay.

Update: What I liked most of all is the possibility of installing the entire game on the hard disk. With FIFA 09 is very noticeable difference and could go even faster if not for the logos of autopromo do not know why force me to watch again and again. The rest, including avatars, extra.

Like yesterday it worked great article by the news of the day, I return to the fray with those of today. The Sony still not back on track, somewhat disoriented and making statements such as "the main premise of PS3 games are." Kaz Hirai, global head of PlayStation and in this heady claim, has been at the level of footballing topics such as "Football is football," or "are 11 to 11". Of course the core of a console is the games! When do you lose the north? (The news in Meristation ). And if this were not enough, Sony PlayStation Home is expected to sell consoles. I admit that there are people who buy the PS3 Metal Gear Solid 4 or even the unfinished Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, but do not see anyone buying the PS3 to get into that virtual world. Do not get me wrong, you look great, but then to sell consoles ... (Source: Yahoo! Video Games )

And I'm lowering the morale of my valued users "fanboys" Sony (nobody is perfect) with the rumor that there will be Metal Gear Solid 4 on Xbox 360. Eye that is not news but a rumor, which is the eve of the news. As explained by my admired Dandel , Sony could soon lose its last great exclusive. It is a very persistent rumor, and when the river sounds ... (More on Yahoo! Games blog )

And near the end, one of hypocrisy that comes directly from U.S. politicians. While Obama, Democratic candidate for president of the United States is not in favor of video games for corrupting the youth and other crap, uses them to advertise. It's been concretely in my idolized Burnout Paradise where your advertising appears ( Photos on the blog of Yahoo! ).

Meanwhile, Activision is not ready to lose the fight for skateboarding video games. Following the success of the draft EA, a game inexplicably called "Skate" has no choice but to innovate and it is rumored that the next chapter in the saga see with peripheral light. The information comes from one of those analysts who then do not get one, but they must have seen what can be done with the Wii and the Wii Balance Board, have joined the Guitar Hero guitar and have attacked ends. What ports! ( The original story, in English ).

And finally, more obvious. From Sports Interactive British study draw our attention to the success of promotional campaigns on social networks like Facebook, MySpace or Youtube (I add Myspace). They say that does not require much financial effort and gives you direct contact with consumers. Good news for those who have interesting products, but bad for their own social networks, which have high traffic, but no clear business model and defined. The make up how to monetize it may be the next Bill Gates. Any ideas? ( More Gamesindustry ).

I say goodbye to remembering that you can win game Saints Row 2 and I have already asked comentándoos my Play TV on the Internet. I hope I get in a few days. Let me tell you my impressions.

After a long wait, bickering, delays, betas and speculation, Sony has decided to launch PlayStation Home, the "Second Life" for PS3, Nov. 19, a day that was already noted in the schedule due to the launch of NXE The new Xbox experience, or that sort of copy of Nintendo's Miis but with higher quality. On November 19 two trains collide head to head, we'll see who derailed, or if you do 2.

By this time you have been living in a cell, PlayStation 2 is a virtual world that lets you create an avatar on the PS3, with your own apartment you can decorate as you like and who does not have to be mortgaged, public spaces, living of Fame, communications, etc..

For its part, NXE (New Xbox Experience) is a total redesign of the Xbox-based operating system (what a novelty!) For avatars with great simplicity grando specially designed for casual gamers.

To me, as I am a "jarcore" I like and I think it has much more potential PlayStation Home.

What should I get first a means of communication: Hearing or benefits? I am a journalist and I can assure you that if you build an audience you will not sell a damn advertising unless deceive advertisers and Chinese (which may work once or twice, no more). All this I loose because it relates to a statement by David Reeves, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, I just read about the delay in consolas.es PlayStation Home (the kind of Second Life that Sony prepares PS3):

"We realized that maybe very ambitious PlayStation Home was not aimed at applications in Home players, how to get sponsors and stuff like that. In that sense, we forget about the players. Therefore, we have focused on launching the games in Home, attracting people to play first, and then attract Nike or Adidas, something not required to play. "

Do not forget the players, in the case of a console, or the hearing in the case of a medium. We must not lose focus. You have to work on what customers want and then when the audience is built, attracting advertiser. The benefits are vital, but the audience comes first. If you do the opposite, it is bread today and hunger tomorrow, is not the right strategy.

Finally finished the PlayStation Day. It was a great trip. There have been very good feeling among all who were covering the event, more than 40 journalists including all types of media and the Internet. Actually in the PSDay not revealed nothing really shocking, but it was a treat to see how to organize such an event, for about 500 journalists from across Europe. The organization has been wonderful, mind blowing compared to what is done here. Games do not hit me much, nor was a new web 2.0 approach is to give the games. If you work on the Internet, is a concept well known.

The presentation of the top brass of Sony was good, was clear, concise, despite presenting a million things, but both were very rigid and Reeves, not gestured at any time. It was weird because it kept all the while holding hands in front of the belly, which is very forced.

We must thank the people at Sony that we have invited and who have behaved so well with us. It was a little beat up, early mornings, etc.., But it was worth though he could not play much because there were very few jobs and many people at the event. I would have liked to stay longer in the party and then enjoy the DJ Paul Oakenfold, but at 9 pm was already ground and it was time to send some stuff for special mounted and I can already see .

Among the anecdotes of the trip, highlighting the joke with the pink shirt Kirai Beam because it is always the same in the presentations (we hope to have more of an equal or at least wash it thoroughly), the driver in London who gave us more Greenwich around in a spinning top, the return flight on Air Comet (a kind of Air Madrid could break and for me) it was a heap of nonsense ...

I was curious about how other competitors react to the announcement of PlayStation Home, a new system that will connect to the PlayStation 3 with each other in a world similiar to Second Life.

A Nintendo representative said that "this is an example of how Sony makes the approach Mii-too", a pun referring to Sony also adds to the Mii concept, introduced in the Wii console.

The guys at Xbox, meanwhile, think that they also copied to the topic of achievements and its weaknesses are that there is a unified system (not all games unlocked achievements) and it is a game in itself, more than anything else.

In my opinion, PlayStation Home has been a pleasant surprise. I seem to have simply erased the idea that Microsoft gives no lessons about the game online with Xbox Live. The Second Life for PS3 is a great pint, may make many things, meeting people, organizing parties ...

- Features video and PlayStation Home .
- More on the reactions of Nintendo and Microsoft on PlayStation Home .

The worst kept secret was revealed at the Game Developers Conference. Sony has been working in a virtual world with an air of Second Life where users can interact using avatars. The service is called PlayStation Home and in it you can create your own avatar, meet people in public rooms, having your own house you invite people to play multiplayer games, arcade games and try more.

When I say that has been the worst kept secret, I mean that PlayStation Home has already been anticipated by a blogger. Sony responded trying to withdraw the information, but was not removed and everyone gave some presentation given before the reaction of Sony.

I'm not going to explain what it is or anything when others have already done to perfection:

- What is PlayStation Home on Yahoo! Games .
- Video .