Over 90% of Japanese Developers Say the PS3 is Too Pricey
- June 30, 2006 00:00 AM PST
Translated by IGN, the latest issue of Japanese mag Ge-Maga polled Japan's development community on issues regarding Sony's PlayStation 3.
The key results are as follows:
Japanese developers: wary about the PS3
- 90.3 percent of the developers feel the PS3 is too pricey.
- 56.3 percent disagree with Sony's choice of releasing two SKUs.
- 55.8 percent feel that the PS3 will not sell with the current lineup of launch titles.
- 32.5 percent have become less confident in the PS3 platform as a whole.
- 62.1 percent feel the system will not reach its 6,000,000 sales goal by March of next year.
- And just 3.4 percent said they were relieved by Sony's announcements at E3 2006.
THE VERDICT by Chris Morell
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell us that the PS3 is expensive. And for the record, no one is going to come out and say this thing is cheap, because it's not.
So let's just get it out in the open: the PS3 is insanely expensive. But even though developers have doubts, they will continue to make games for the PlayStation brand because it is still, hands down, the strongest gaming brand in the world.
