Peter Dille – senior vice president of marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment America – has been talking to the Seattle Times regarding PlayStation Move and other Sony related goings on. It seems confidence is high when it comes to his view on Move vs. Kinect:
“”Our perspective has become much more bullish as we get closer to launch. We’ve had a chance to get people playing our system … The feedback we’ve gotten has been unanimous and tremendous. It’s, ‘I see what you mean about this precision thing.’ Our pre-orders continually are ramping up with consumers, retailers want to get more product.
We’re hopeful that it’s a hot product. Based on the retailer feedback, they’d like to get more than they have at this point. That’s a high-class problem to have.”
So does he have any words on the oft rumoured PlayStation branded Phone?
“No new mobile launches this year.”
Short and sweet – we like his style. So, no actual launch but we are hoping for at least an announcement – plus it will be interesting to see what Sony has planned to counter Apple’s rather swish new Game Center.
Source: Seattle Times
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Shame about the phone, the PSP platform has been flagging for a few years now and a new device (with & without a phone option like the iPhone & iPod touch) would have been a great way to re-invigorate the Sony brand.
bajere
it will come, maybe E3 will show us a design… Sony would be silly not to make a phone. as long as the phone part is made well (run on android) and the style is good people will buy it with or without wanting to play games on it. then the market is there ready for sony to convert into casual gamers.
dandan123
it will be most likely be shown at TGS. as thats wer sonys main HQ is and they always reveal all new playstation hardware there.
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They have reaffirmed the knowledge that the PlayStation brand will appear only on Sony devices… meaning a no-go for a SonyEricsson Android powered PSphone.
I don’t believe they are in a position (or allowed to under the joint venture with Ericsson) go it alone to release a Sony phone (obviously with PSP2 feature built in)
Shame because I’d either be directly interested in it itself, or a beneficiary of the competition it would provide to other devices .
Watchful
@dandan123 New hardware isn’t always revealed at TGS. PSPgo débuted at E3 last year, while the PS3 Slim was officially revealed at Gamescom in Cologne.
dandan123
yes ino that but they was just remakes of the orginals im talking about PSP phat and 3000 and also talking about playstation 3 phat! they where all shown in jpaan before anywhere else
Flash
I pre-ordered a Move a couple of weeks ago.
stonyk
me too. Swore i wasn’t going to get this but all the talk online (if you don’t include any xbox sites) has been how much better the move is than first anticipated. Actually looking forward to it now. even bought the EyePet from amazon for £2.99 +p&p so hopefully the missus will enjoy the camera thing too.
exellentgamer
i wish i did
dandan123
so what if it dosent launch this year. it doesnt mean they arnt going to announce or show it off does it? and obviously they are not going to tell us if it is a supprise.
Peter Rushton
a playstation phone is on the cards no doubt