Mon, Mar 16, 2009 | 10:53 GMT
Sony US boss: Developers want PS3 to be free
Peter Dille, SCEA’s senior marketing VP, has told Bloomberg that developers apparently want Sony to sell PS3 for “free”.
“Everybody in the development community would love for the PS3 to be free, so they could just sell razor blades,” Dille said.
He added that Sony is concerned with profitability as well as PS3′s installed base.
Dille’s comments come as Sony faced mounting pressure to cut the price of PS3.
“Sony obviously still has a ways to go with their pricing,” said EA Sports’ Peter Moore.
Dille said that there were no immediate plans to cut PS3′s price.
Thanks, Xephon1970.
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Tags: Peter Dille, peter moore
10 comments
#1
G1GAHURTZ
16/03/09, 11:02 am
Yeah, I think it should be free too.
#2
Blerk
16/03/09, 11:07 am
I’m sure the developers would quite like all the machines to be free.
Anyway, he sounds frazzled – this isn’t the usual glossy PR statement we’ve come to expect. Poor chap.
#3
Soong
16/03/09, 11:08 am
I would even buy TWO PS3s if they were free!
#4
G1GAHURTZ
16/03/09, 11:25 am
I’ve previously thought about what it would be like if consoles were free, or if you only had to pay someone to come and ‘install’ them like with a Sky box, for example.
Then the games could be £100/£200 each, with a big chunk of that going to the manufacturers.
Alternatively, they could charge a subscription fee and all of the games could be ‘free’, with a percentage of the fee going to developers.
It’s the future of games, I tell ya!
#5
Freek
16/03/09, 11:33 am
A machine that’s already the most expensive console on the market, selling at a loss, and they want to give it away for free?
What plannet are they living on? What are they smoking there and how can I join them?
#6
Psychotext
16/03/09, 11:35 am
Oh dear… that’s not the snippy way to respond to developer concerns.
#7
Retroid
16/03/09, 12:04 pm
A nice strawman, there, Mr Sony.
#8
agk190
16/03/09, 12:36 pm
No wonder developers don’t want to develop for the ps3. I mean who would with ignorant a holes like this working over there. Don’t they know developers are what make a console great.
#9
lelik
16/03/09, 1:11 pm
you sound like a faggot. are you sir a faggot? don’t answer that question. you sir are a faggot.
#10
Psychotext
16/03/09, 1:25 pm
Is it half term already?