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Sony Drops the 60GB PS3: Brilliant Marketing Scheme, Or Are They Insane?
Note: This post is a semi-sequel to “Who the Heck is Going to Buy the $599 80GB PS3″
Perhaps the worst kept secret in recent console gaming history, we now know that the $499 60GB PS3 is soon-to-be extinct. The newly announced $599 80GB PS3 (with Motorstorm bundled) well then remain the only PS3 package in [...]
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Who the Heck is Going to Buy the $599 80GB Playstation 3?
Sony really needs to think a bit more about their pricing schemes. First, the PS3 was too expensive: The former $599 model which featured a 60GB hard drive has really been the only model worth owning since launch — so much so that Sony discontinued the $499 20GB model altogether. Now they’re dropping the 60GB [...]
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An Ode to Sprites, and Sprites Go High-Definition
I’m not sure if I can really express how much I love sprites. I attribute it mostly to growing up on the gorgeous 2D graphics on the SNES with the likes of Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, and of course the venerable Street Fighter 2 series. Even during the 32-bit console era, sprites always offered [...]
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The Connection Between Gaming and Violence
Contexts Magazine has an excellent article on why video games (and violent media in general) aren’t the harbingers of evil that politicians and the like make them out to be. Simply put, video games are now just the latest in a string of “folk devils”–things that adults have used as scapegoats for explaining why they [...]
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Blame Blu-Ray: How Sony’s Hubris is Killing the PS3
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It’s not hard to make fun of Sony–not anymore at least. Every day brings another PR debacle that any clear-headed company could easily have avoided. The recent Kotaku incident is just one example. While it’s easy to lambaste Sony for every stupid decision they make, I think we’re better off trying to understand the events [...]
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Why The Nintendo Wii Is A Glorified Board Game