Sony has announced on Oct 15th that a new PS3 system with a 250GB HDD will be available on November 3 for $349.99 (Vgchartz). With this expanded storage people can download more TV shows, movies and games from Playstation Network as well as for storing personal music, video or pictures.
PS3 Slim certainly has brought Sony success. Its september sales is projected around 410,000 units (a 76% improvement year-over-year) compared with 390,000 Wii units (down 45% from last year) and 350,000 Xbox 360 units (up 1% year-over-year)(Vgchartz).Good news for Sony, and certainly bad news for Microsoft.
And today, in an interview with Game informer, Microsoft Xbox 360 director of product management Aaron Greenberg calls Sony's anticipated leading September PS3 sales "a short term bump."
"It is not a real concern to us," said Greenberg, acknowledging the likelihood of Sony's top slot sales numbers and adding "This is frankly not a real surprise to us or the analysts that follow this industry."
Will Microsoft come up with XBOX360 250GB to compete with Sony, or they will adopt other stategies? As a Sony fan, I am really glad to see the success of PS3 Slim and it is a really rare victory for Sony in these years. With Ar Tonelico 3rd revealed on PS3, I am hoping to get a new one before it releases. Hoping Sony will seize this success and get more...
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If they got more games for PS3, I would bought it already.
ReplyDeletesigh, price is always the freezing water killed the fire of my entertainment life.