Comments on: Did Kotaku lie about being contacted by Sony? http://www.gamegazette.net/?p=273 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:28:51 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Viggo http://www.gamegazette.net/?p=273&cpage=1#comment-51 Viggo Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:32:55 +0000 http://www.gamegazette.net/?p=273#comment-51 As a gaming journalist, you needed to analyze what could be the possible resulting situations of a 'big' Sony announcement. Knowing that there couldn't be much more information released on the PSP2 or there being a price cut on the PS3 since Sony is already losing tons of money on that system of the future. My question to you 'darkpower' is this: how would you know if Kotaku actually was hinted to a particular announcement or not other than the article that was posted on their website last Friday? With firmware updates happening so often for the PS3, I doubt that Sony would have gone out of their way to make a big announcement for it. This limits the results down to two simple options: either an announcement for the PSP or the PS2. With the PS2 drawing in a large part of the income of Sony, it was smart to drop the price because then they would see more gamers going to buy old games that they never bought saving them money while making Sony money faster on the PS2 than they had before. Lastly, the PSP has been having a lot of rumors and news lately. I don't think it was in Sony's best decision to talk about the PSP or PSP2 at all right now. To conclude, it was very obvious that there was going to be this PS2 price drop. When pictures filtered online to different forum sites of KMart and Target pricing, it was officially confirmed. To comment on the 'early April Fool's Joke' matter. Its not even April yet; lets not get ridiculous. Secondly, teasing a reader about a possible big announcement could get readers wanting to make sure they are the first ones to find out about this. They probably knew it was a PS2 price drop, but teased us to possibly get more hits for their site in turn giving them more revenue. As a gaming journalist, you needed to analyze what could be the possible resulting situations of a ‘big’ Sony announcement. Knowing that there couldn’t be much more information released on the PSP2 or there being a price cut on the PS3 since Sony is already losing tons of money on that system of the future. My question to you ‘darkpower’ is this: how would you know if Kotaku actually was hinted to a particular announcement or not other than the article that was posted on their website last Friday? With firmware updates happening so often for the PS3, I doubt that Sony would have gone out of their way to make a big announcement for it. This limits the results down to two simple options: either an announcement for the PSP or the PS2. With the PS2 drawing in a large part of the income of Sony, it was smart to drop the price because then they would see more gamers going to buy old games that they never bought saving them money while making Sony money faster on the PS2 than they had before. Lastly, the PSP has been having a lot of rumors and news lately. I don’t think it was in Sony’s best decision to talk about the PSP or PSP2 at all right now. To conclude, it was very obvious that there was going to be this PS2 price drop. When pictures filtered online to different forum sites of KMart and Target pricing, it was officially confirmed.

To comment on the ‘early April Fool’s Joke’ matter. Its not even April yet; lets not get ridiculous. Secondly, teasing a reader about a possible big announcement could get readers wanting to make sure they are the first ones to find out about this. They probably knew it was a PS2 price drop, but teased us to possibly get more hits for their site in turn giving them more revenue.

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