Greenberg really wants a ps3, just waiting for a price cut.

Aaron Greenberg...cant wait to see the show *pulls up a chair*

well this will reach the front page fast.

Right now ps3 is becoming the king in game consoles, cant argue that.
after tough 3 years its finally time and you really think they gonna do a price drop now? Im pretty sure there wont be one for a while, cause its simply stupid. a machine like ps3 is more than worth its price.
Iphones cost as much as ps3's, just compare ps3's price to any electronics and tell me its over priced even a bit. to me its a bargain.

so unless you are idiot you would already buy ps3 if all your reason was money.

Im sure when some games come out that people were waiting for so long for them it wont matter if ps3 cost 300 or 400bucks.

I can see 10000... of japanese runing off to buy the ps3 when ff13 comes out. for other people its games like gow3, mag... you name it. I got mine when mg4 came out and didnt really care about price then, cause i already knew its more than worth it.

This fat man is one of the reasons I reaaaally dislike the 360, aside from RRoD, paying to play online etc. It still makes me feel dirty thinking that I've actually owned one of those PoS consoles. They should've all been recalled, shoddy quality should NOT be supported!

He said a special limited edition bundle to celebrate the price drop will be available around September that is going to include Killzone 2, LBP, a second controller and an 80 system for 400 bucks.

It will be in extremely limited quanities.

OK I was BSing you.

My bet is that the price drop happens on 6/24
They will even offer a second color of PS3 this time
You say how did I pull this out?

Well I'm putting things together.
http://www.gamestop.com/Cat...

They aren't just going to offer a new color controller

I really dislike this guy. He seems to have no class whatsoever. Cant he just say things about Microsoft's gaming division and say nothing about the competition. Then maybe I can start to give some respect. When is Peter Moore coming back?

He is saying this ever couple of months, it's a tactic...

"don't buy a PS3 today because there's a price cut coming soon, just wait a little."

It's to put people off, otherwise do you think he'd actually bother to tell everyone all the time?

WHY DO PEOPLE APPROVE THIS?

yeha.. sony is with despair by cutting the price because of last place in generation..... :D

I think i'm gonna sell my PS3 & buy a 360 just to brag about sales like a little b!tch & be second place... :D

I mean really, who needs games when you got sales ? :D

he honestly has no place to comment about a PS3 price cut, but when people see this interview they will hold off on buying a PS3 waiting for a price cut, and he knows it lol.

I dont really care about him he's always been this way, I just hate when he brings the PS2 in the discussion. It just feels so out of place and arrogant and unusually pisses me off.

RROD+Er74=Repeat buyers inflating userbase!.

people listen to him because he is a douche bag who always bullshit about other system and everytime it make a drama. This guy has probably needed some attention from his mom and dad when he was younger. Thats why he alwasy talksh1t about other system, to get attention from us.

Good interview, not only is Halo Wars outselling Killzone 2 but Lost and the Damned dlc aswell. Nice to see some cummunity game devs are making some money.

Aaron Greenberg needs to be replaced by Good ole Peter Moore. Peter Moore makes most people feel excited not stupid and ignorance in the end.

["ag:The future lies in the growth of current generation consoles and for us in driving those PS2 owners to continue to buy Xbox 360 over a PS3. It is also a very difficult time economically to try and sell a product at twice the price of your competition. We’ve always managed our business focused on to deliver a great value and maintaining a price advantage over the PS3 was part of the original Xbox 360 strategy from the beginning. In many ways, we feel that dropping the price to $199 last fall has helped us fare better given the current economy but it is really just one component that adds up to Xbox being an overall better entertainment value for consumers. Xbox 360 simply gives you more for your money with double the games library of PS3."]

Lol, Do you expect me or anyone else to believe in that gullible nonsense. The xbox 360 does have a larger games library than the ps3 only because "a.r." fails to mention that xbox 360 came out a year before the ps3 so it is obviously understandable that the xbox360 has a larger game library than the ps3 at the moment. Granted the ps3 is initially twice the price than the xbox 360 but you are getting a lot more bang and value for your buck with the ps3 than with the xbox 360 and some people fail to realize that considering the though economic times in the U.S. . In other words if you were to get a bare bones xbox 360(which is the $199 arcade version, which by the way right out of the box has less than 1 gb hardrive space for game saves, movies, music etc...), and if possible to pay for all of the features that the ps3 already has for the xbox 360 I guarantee that over the system's life cycle that you would be paying a lot more than $400 dollars for the xbox360(including the xbox live online play fee vs. ps3 online play for free). Not to mention the more than likely chance of aggravation of having to send your xbox 360 back for repairs because of microsoft's inability for not spending enough money for better quality hardware and the lack of spending money for research to fix this problem. I mean come on give me a break, the rrod issue should have been fixed the first year the xbox360 came out and it has been 3 year's now and the situation still has barely improved. I am not a "fanboy" and am not the type of person to go on a rant like this, but I am sick and tired of seeing this type of garbage from "fanboys" and microsoft themselves polluting the internet and wasting mostly everyone's time. The thing is microsoft is way too obsessively concerned with the competition that their products suffer as a result. Unlike microsoft, nintendo and sony are not obsessed with the competition and as a result the over all quality is better from both companies. I do not own a wii but I do own a ps3 and am satisfied and happy with it, especially considering the games that are coming soon for the ps3. I could go on but I have better things to do like actual gaming.

Greenturd reminds me of the king bug in Starship troppers.

He is pretty hilarious though.
Even though he's not trying to be.

It seems that microsoft isn't sitting well knowing that the ps3 is selling above 200k in the u.s. with a high price tag.

Microsofts console costs half the price but doesn't sell twice as much, that is a sign, he would never admit it but microsoft is losing popularity fast with the 360 and the price cut only hides the problem for them. It's like puting a bandaid on a bullet wound, you won't see it anymore but the problem is very much there.

I don't know why more analysts don't look at the real issues, it's always whats happening RIGHT NOW! It's popular right now to talk about the ps3 being doomed, it's just plain worng.

I so wish that they would have asked what they are doing regarding their problems with customer service or the lifespan of their console, he's such a freakin' prick. You promote your own brand you don't try to cast another brand in a bad light.

I get it, we all love SONY. Even those of us with Xbox360's most likely have several SONY products. For example, i have a SONY Bravia, SONY Vaio, a PS1, and a PS2. The reason i got a 360 instead of a PS3 was for one simple reason. I like it better.

You must understand that consoles are different than race. By claiming you are somehow better than a 360 owner because you own a PS3, you are forgetting that any 360 owner who wants a PS3 CAN go BUY ONE WHENEVER THEY WANT.

As SONY fanboy's you SURELY must know that last generation the PS2 was the obvious champion. You also know that it had the weakest graphics out of the three consoles. Thus your constant rambling about how "you think" the graphics on the PS3 are better is stupid, or contradictory at best. In fact take this into consideration; The current best selling console is the Wii, which has the worst graphics. Last gen the PS2 was victor, which had worse graphics. In the handheld market, the DS is winning... which has worse graphics than the PSP.

I must say, i do not agree that the PS3 has better graphics, but i will humor you. According to the trends of the last 2 decades, and the current console sales: claiming your system has "better graphics" is almost synonymous with saying "My console is doing worse". In fact from a psychological standpoint this holds even more water. Your system is in last place, has a lackluster online experience, has a bad controller, has less features, less games, less movies, less TV shows, less desktopPC support, and costs more. So in light of all these flaws you, of course, say "well it has better graphics". Your impression that Graphics are paramount is a sign of obvious buyers remorse or a need to compensate.

The real question is why you must SPOUT OUT your insecurity on a gaming website. This man did an interview. Nothing he said was controversial, however he must have hit a RAW NERVE when he brought up the lack of PS3 features, and the PS3's price point. In accordance, this is what followed

"Killzone2, Uncharted, WTF is wrong with this guy"
"The PS3 is so much more powerful"
"etc etc etc etc etc etc"

The only way we can judge a consoles 'success' is based on how successfully it sells, how high it games are rated, and how many games it has sold. The fact of the matter is that the 360 has MORE HIGH rated games, and its games are rated higher. It has sold a SH#!TLOAD (nearly 130,000,000) more games. And as it currently stands, it has sold over 8,000,000 more consoles. Similarly the 360 is doing MUCH better NATIONALLY than the PS3. You may have all noticed that the PS3 has been most successful in Japan.... where SONY is located.... dot dot dot. While the 360 has been the console of choice In America, South America ETC.

So moral of the story is.. give up. You bought a PS3 congratulations. It looks fun and i might grab one if it ever drops to a reasonable price. However your console is doing worse than the 360 I T I S A M A T T E R O F F A C T .

Now that Jim Ryan is gone just need to remove Herman Hulst from his position! And maybe give Shuhei the position he deserved.

This gen hasn't been the best for games, last gen consoles are still out there and now there's been talk of the PS6 and Xbox Two for a year or so. Many games this gen will be ported to next gen and the cycle will continue. The re-release of the Neo Geo AES+, games on cartridge for £70 ($95), gaming is going back in time. Gaming has gone pricing mad with the high cost of games, consoles and controllers. The men and women at the top are clueless.

It’s always interesting to hear behind-the-scenes stories like this, especially involving veterans like Shuhei Yoshida and leadership figures like Jim Ryan. That said, there are usually multiple sides to decisions at that level. It could be less about not “listening” and more about differences in long-term vision for PlayStation. Yoshida played a huge role in shaping the brand, so whatever the reason, his impact is undeniable.

If true, and I'm inclined to believe it is, it goes to show that Sony lost their way when they became more western/didn't respect the PlayStation origin story. Andrew House and Jack Tretton did great work, but they also didn't try to fundamentally change the PlayStation DNA. Ryan oversaw the death of Japan Studio and a live service direction.

I already figured this, good lord imagine if Shuhei took over instead, would've been a platinum era 😩

I miss the first three generations of PlayStation. The way they turned PS3 around, we knew they meant business. We were all worried for a bit there around launch. Eventually from 2008 they started shifting slowly. But since Yoshida was fired, it's never been the same. Still enjoy my PS5 daily. I got a backlog dating back to PS2 lol So I'm fine but new games aren't as appealing anymore.

It seems like we were thrown on to the worst timeline possible where everything is too expensive and the wrong people were put in positions that makes the world a shitty place. We could have had Shu as the head of PS but we got the shitty alternative. Same goes for everyone in power around the world. Doesn’t matter the company or country the majority of us got the shitty picks and the world is declining like never before. I do think PS can come out of this because of their studios, talent and IP but they need someone more in touch with gamers leading things like Shu was. They’re still the best place for console gaming imo but it could be much better than it is especially without the massive live service failures. The rest of the world I have a lot less hope for right now. Hopefully the pendulum swings back towards the good ole days but I’m preparing for the worst.

There goes illuminati distraction story

So now there's certifiable proof that Ryan was in fact "fired", as opposed to when it was first announced that he "retired", in order to save face.

There's another guy who recently "retired" as CEO of another large gaming company, after doing a dismantling job as lead for well over a decade.

seems legit, the business man, fires the one who has ideas to move the business forward.

Jim Ryan is the reason why we are entering year 6 since the PS5 launch and many of us don't feel like the PS5 has gotten started as yet.

I hope going forward, we will see a return to form.