{"id":1533,"date":"2009-07-13T19:16:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T23:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/13\/monday-news-notes-and-recycling\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T12:23:12","slug":"monday-news-notes-and-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/13\/monday-news-notes-and-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday news, notes, and recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other than wanting to get a cold one I do not have a lot of junk to spew about tonight.  Actually, before we get started I have to admit that I am a little bit pissed off that there is no update on the Sony site about the status of my PS3 repair.  The site says to \u201cplease allow 1-2 business days for your unit to be assigned to a Service Agent once received.\u201d  Hmmm \u2026 I guess there must be some sort of backlog of broken PS3. <\/p>\n<p><b><em>Price cuts by October?<\/em><\/b><br \/>\nThis article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2009\/07\/13\/pachter-sony-will-cut-ps3-price-before-october-1-if-console-sales-keep-crashing\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2009\/07\/13\/pachter-sony-will-cut-ps3-price-before-october-1-if-console-sales-keep-crashing\/', 'VG247');\" target=\"new\">VG247<\/a> shows that the price cuts are coming, just in time for your holiday shopping pleasure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wedbush Morgan super-analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Sony will cut PS3\u2019s price before October 1 if US hardware sales continue to slide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is likely both manufacturers [Sony and Nintendo] will cut by $50, with Sony making up any lack of increased demand with a software bundle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article basically states that hardware sales suck [stagnant is probably a more profession description] and that there will be price cuts all around.  Everyone is looking for a $100 PS3 price cut from Sony, but I guess $50 is more reasonable.  To be honest, once I saw the $249 price point for the PSP Go I figured Sony was going to go for a deep PS3 price cut and try to recoup PS3 losses on early PSP Go suckers [I mean adapters].<\/p>\n<p><b><em>PSP Homebrew Stuffs<\/em><\/b><br \/>\nIf I get a PSP Go, I am going to consider bricking my PSP-1000 into a homebrew system.  In anticipation of this event, I have been looking at different homebrew options.  <a href=\"http:\/\/pspupdates.qj.net\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/pspupdates.qj.net\/', 'QJ.net');\" target=\"new\">QJ.net<\/a> seems to be a decent news consolidation point for all things PSP homebrew related.<\/p>\n<p><b><em>PSP-3000 vs. PSP Go<\/em><\/b><br \/>\nClick here is an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newpspwallpapers.com\/2009\/07\/13\/psp-go-vs-psp-3000-specs\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.newpspwallpapers.com\/2009\/07\/13\/psp-go-vs-psp-3000-specs\/', 'article');\" target=\"new\">article<\/a> comparing the PSP-3000 specs to the PSP Go.<\/p>\n<p><b><em>NCAA Football 10<\/em><\/b><br \/>\nI have not budged.  Have not started checking for the \u201cI have it posts\u201d or looking to see how much the game \u201crules or sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other than wanting to get a cold one I do not have a lot of junk to spew about tonight. Actually, before we get started I have to admit that I am a little bit pissed off that there is no update on the Sony site about the status of my PS3 repair. The site &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/13\/monday-news-notes-and-recycling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday news, notes, and recycling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,9,51],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-ps3","tag-psp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}