Gamers Evolved

Sony is happy this week after they were able to find a way of manufacturing the PS3 with less than half of what it usually takes. Sony usually spend $800 to build each PS3 – but they have worked things out to the point that they only need to spend $400.

Although most new consoles are sold at a loss in the initial months, companies are usually able to gradually reduce production costs as components become cheaper and manufacturing processes are streamlined. Nikko Citigroup’s Kota Ezawa has stated that thanks to the redesigned 40GB PS3 Sony has whittled down the amount it costs to manufacture its console from $800 to around $400.

Playstation’s new 2.1 firmware update was full of several upgrades – but none was more desirable and cooler than the brand new music visualizer. It isn’t often that we decide to just sit down and listen to our music on the PS3 and just stare at the screen. Usually the visualizers are bright and can annoy the heck out of us.

This new music visualizer has been given a space theme and will make you want to stare at it for hours. It lets you see the motion of music in a whole new way. Perhaps the days of the American public being obsessed with space travel are long gone, but that doesn’t mean the great black beyond isn’t beautiful and mysterious.

When Heroes of the Pacific was released back in 2005 for the PS2 and the Xbox it became such a great hit. Ever since then we have hoped that they would come out with another game that would be just as great. We were excited to hear that after two years we will be getting what we want. Red Mile Entertainment announced this week that they are creating a sequel called – Heroes Over Europe – and will be making it for the PS3 Xbox 360 and PC.

Many people have wondered why the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles have not out sold the Nintendo Wii and why they seem to always be struggling to stay ahead in the race. The two companies have been around for some time now and once upon a time they used to be the consoles to have. Now it seems that the prices they are asking for are too steep for most people to handle.

Many major game publishers beleive that the prices of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 must fall to $199 before the consoles will have any real mass market appeal. Cheaper hardware would increase sales even more dramatically and keep them both financially stable.

Christmas shopping has officially begun and the Playstation is starting off with a bang. After the hectic rush of Black Friday Sony was able to take a step back and evaluate exactly how much they had sold.

Sales showed that the PlayStation 3 shot up to 298 percent since Sony introduced the cheaper $399 40GB and most of the sales occurred on Black Friday. The news follows a similar positive week in Japan, where the PS3 outsold Nintendo’s Wii for the very first time.