PlayStation

2013 is starting to feel like other gold-rush eras of videogame history... like the CD-ROM scramble of the early 1990s, when every consumer electronics company on Earth tried to jimmy their way into the console market... most of the new consoles crashed and burned. The thing is, the one that didn’t was called PlayStation.

The new systems for Xbox and PlayStation may be "locked down" to combat piracy and blocked used games.

Sony posted a $2.9 billion loss for October-December 2011 making this the forth year in a row the company has faced significant financial loss¹. Kazuo Hirai will be promoted to CEO of Sony Corporation², moving up from his current role as President of the Consumer Products & Services Group (as well as other executive roles within the company). Hirai will be replacing current CEO Howard Stringer on April 1, 2012 and will be charged with bringing the company back into the black. Read on

Notes

1. Reuters ↩

2. Gamasutra ↩

BlogThe more I think about it, the more it bothers. That is, the more people say "graphics don't matter" the more I think they're full of it. Actually, the more I think about it, I find the graphics are incredibly important to me. But maybe I'm being too loose with my definitions. Because whenever I think, "graphics," I automatically lump in art direction. Talking about how good the graphics are is pointless if what is being animated is boring to begin with.

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