Sony Computer Entertainment UK director Ray Maguire gives fans of Grand Theft Auto IV, Fallout 3 and Tomb Raider: Underworld hope for the future of “exclusive” downloadable content on the PlayStation 3 platform. Each has promised DLC only for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, but Maguire tells VideoGamer that “One thing to remember, nothing is ever exclusive.”
What better way to say Happy Holiday than with a console price cut. This year, Sony won’t be saying it that way. The company, states Sony Computer Entertainment exec Ray Maguire, “has a business to run” and must “do the right thing” for Sony shareholders. Forget holiday consumer charity! Oh, the brutal honesty, so brutal, so honest. The full Maguire quote: Well the pressure comes from the consumers obviously and so therefore there’s always pressure on price, but you know we have a business to run, and we have to make sure we’re doing the right thing for the shareholders as well… At the moment there’s a marketplace for PS3 and I think for this particular Christmas, with the kind of quality of games we’re seeing coming out this Christmas, I don’t think the price of the console is going to be an issue at all.
More E3 navel-gazing! Can you stand any more? Do try, because this has got to be the last one. Asked for his thoughts on the validity of E3′s “new” format, SCE UK’s Ray Maguire said:
I think we felt that E3 suffered by not having that grandeur and the theatrical shows that demonstrate this is a business that generates billions of Euros. It was more like a convention for plumbers. But behind closed doors, there was a decent amount of business going on.
If that’s a comment on the amount of visible ass-crack on show, Ray, I can assure you, it’s all the rage with the kids these days. Interview: Ray Maguire, MD of SCE UK [TechRadar]
Sony Computer Entertainment UK’s Ray Maguire, amidst a discussion on the Byron Report (chastising it for not keeping up with a growing internet-based industry), made a prediction about the future of games: …ten years from now the ratio of games sales will have gone from 90 per cent in-store to 90 per cent online.
And while that certainly doesn’t sound wrong, I think that I speak for everyone here by saying, we know that we’ll be downloading games in ten years. We’re wondering more about the next five. Sony: Web sales will rule by 2018 [MCVUK]
While Sony just took the time to confirm that 1 million PS3s had sold in the UK, it was a quote from SCEE managing director Ray Maguire that got us all hot and bothered: Our momentum will continue with the introduction of in-game communication in the summer, firmware update 2.4 and the strongest line-up of games through our third party partners and our own studios.
Let’s start the semantics minigame. Does Maguire mean that we’ll see the 2.4 update in the summer? And does that mean we’ll see in-game XMB?
Let the arguments commence! UPDATE: It looks like he may have been talking about this.
We love Ray Maguire. PS3 problems may be old hat by now (ie booooooring), but we will never get tired of hearing Ray tell us all about them. Take today, for example. That 40GB PS3 isn’t Sony flying by the seat of their pants. No, it’s all part of their grand, master plan! We’ve been considering this since launch – this is all part of a very carefully thought-out plan.
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting where they planned the past twelve months. Maguire: New PS3 can change attitudes [MCV] More »
