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The Great Chain Interview, Part 3: Sony Questions Sony, Who Questions Shane Kim

6:00AM Stephen Totilo | The cliffhanger at the end of yesterday’s Chain Interview had Xbox exec John Schappert wanting to know what a Sony exec thinks of Xbox Live. Let’s get past the halfway point with an answer. More »

Great Chain Interview, Pt 2: Metroid Guy To Xbox Guy To PS3 Guy

5:00AM Stephen Totilo | When last we left off, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto was asking me to ask Metroid designer Yoshio Sakamoto when he wants Miyamoto to retire… More »

Sony Explains Unnamed New PS3 Motion Controller A Little More

9:00AM Stephen Totilo | The head of marketing for the PlayStation brand told us at E3 that Sony’s new PlayStation 3 motion-control tech could be the thing to get hardcore players into “motion gaming.” More »

Sony Expects Metal Gear Solid Rising On PS3 At Launch

7:20AM Stephen Totilo | Sony’s head of marketing for the PS3 confirmed that the next console Metal Gear Solid is not an Xbox 360 exclusive or even a timed one. More »

Sony: PSP Piracy Levels Are ‘Sickening’

7:40AM Michael McWhertor | 2008 was not a banner year for the PSP in North America, with a software release list that could nicely be called thin. That was in part due to developers nearly abandoning the platform. More »

So, How Many People Have Used PlayStation Home?

1:00PM Luke Plunkett | Sony’s Home has weathered its fair share of insults since launch. But putting arguments over the service’s usefulness aside for a moment, lets today look at some numbers. More »

Sony Sound Fed Up With Calls For A Price Cut

11:00PM Luke Plunkett | You may have heard, the PlayStation 3 is expensive. Not “private jet” expensive, sure, but compared to the Wii and 360, it’s expensive. So people want it cheaper. Sony, however, are having none of it. More »

Peter Dille Talks FFXIII Exclusivity, Seems Confused

1:40PM Luke Plunkett | Sony’s Peter Dille has never been a man short on words. So when asked by MTV what he thought of Microsoft’s Final Fantasy XIII coup, he offered words: Consumers responded to “GTA” on the PS3 just as they did on the 360. And it becomes a bit of a jump ball. But it didn’t rise the tide for them. And I think if you fast forward to when “Final Fantasy XIII” comes out I think you’re going to have millions of people who grew up playing “Final Fantasy” on the PlayStation playing it on a PlayStation 3. They spent a lot of money, I’m sure, to get “Final Fantasy” onto the 360 but at the end of the day it’s on our platform as well. Which is why we focus on, “Let’s look at what happens when you have “Metal Gear Solid” on your platform … when the NPD numbers come out … I think you’ll see the value of what a real exclusive title does and how it raised the bar for PS3 versus 360. So…exclusives don’t really matter, yet exclusives like MGS4 bring “value” and “raise the bar” for the PS3? You seem confused, Peter. Sony: ‘Final Fantasy XIII’ Going To XBox 360 Creates ‘Jump Ball’ [MTV] More »