[News – PS3] Sony’s PS3 Home: rewards, microtransactions, problems and Sony’s expectations

Here are some news about the new PS3 service, Home, which has begun last week.

• Now that Home has officially gone live, there are still some questions to be answered: full launch, Home’s economy, etc. Jack Buser, Home director, gave some hints about them. (source: 1UP)
• Let me share with you an article talking about the PS3 Home service, in its different dimensions, explaining how this world works. (source: Eurogamer)
• After public release, as expected, it came the problems. The main issue is the registration and login process since it’s almost impossible to enter Home sometimes. According to Sony, this is happening because there are many users trying to enter into Home for the very first time and the servers aren’t answering well to this demand. (source: Eurogamer)
• Sony’s expectations for Home are high. They want to turn Home into a system seller. Dan Hill, Home service manager for SCEE, talks more about Sony’s expectations. (source: CVG)

[News – PS3] PS3 world news: price cut, Sony’s jobs, John Kohler interview, user-generated content leadership, sales and PS3 2009

Here are some news of the last days around Sony PS3 world:

• David Reeves says again that PS3 will not suffer a price cut since it doesn’t fit on Sony’s strategy. The key, according David Reeves, is to add value to PS3 and not cut its price. In the last generations, with PSOne and PS2, they cut the price when they reduce production costs but they’re not doing this with PS3. They’re confident in industry growth and PS3 sales. (source: Gameover)
• Sony will close 10% of its manufacturing sites, including those who produce PS3. This results in a loss of 8000 jobs worldwide. (source: IGN)
• An interesting interview with Sony’s John Kohler about the burning questions about PS3. (source: GamePro)
• Sony says that they’re leading the user-generated content on consoles. With the release of games like LittleBigPlanet, Buzz and Singstar, user-generated content are growing up and these may increase the concept of game’s communities and, indeed, generate more sales. (source: GamesIndustry)
• Sony has announced that PS brand has began the holiday season with a strong growth, comparing with October. Sony’s affirmed that its consoles are in a strong holiday momentum with sales increasing from 51% to 150%, comparing with October. (source: Videogamer)
• An interesting article discussing the year 2009 for PS3, including PS3 portfolio, the best hopes, competition and the challenges that PS3 will have next year. (source: PSXExtreme)

[News – PS3] Square was interested in FF XI on PS3

You can play FF XI on X360, PS2 and PC but PS3 is not in the list. Why? This is the reason.

(source: 1UP)