{"id":933,"date":"2007-06-16T22:56:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T02:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/16\/more-ps3-doom-and-gloom\/"},"modified":"2007-06-16T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T02:56:21","slug":"more-ps3-doom-and-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/16\/more-ps3-doom-and-gloom\/","title":{"rendered":"More PS3 Doom and Gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/ent\/stories\/DN-gamer_0616gl.ART.State.Edition1.436f356.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/ent\/stories\/DN-gamer_0616gl.ART.State.Edition1.436f356.html', 'Dallas Morning News');\" target=\"new\">Dallas Morning News<\/a> article via N4G.com.  The author paints a pretty dire picture for Sony:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo Sony has two choices: slash the price (and a $100 discount may not be enough anymore) and hope that higher game sales can offset the hardware loss. Or get out of the home console business and focus on handhelds.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not see that happening.  I am not sure what Sony will do if things do not turn around by this time next year, but I assume they expect PS3 system and PS3 game sales to start improving as the holiday season rolls around.<\/p>\n<p>Now this bit is just ridiculous:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBut Sony\u2019s console isn\u2019t seen as the system for the hard-core gamer, as is the 360. It\u2019s seen as the system for rich people who already own a 360 and are looking for something frivolous to spend their cash on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  This is almost like troll bait on a message board.  Interesting read without that last part, and pretty much along the same lines as everyone else is reporting.  Sony looks like they are in serious trouble.<\/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>I ran across this Dallas Morning News article via N4G.com. The author paints a pretty dire picture for Sony: \u201cSo Sony has two choices: slash the price (and a $100 discount may not be enough anymore) and hope that higher game sales can offset the hardware loss. Or get out of the home console business &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/16\/more-ps3-doom-and-gloom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More PS3 Doom and Gloom<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}