Misc Gaming Thread

All from MB:

RUMOR: Nintendo is planning to use DivX compression for Nintendo DS, for movie playback. It will be possible to fit a 2 hours long movie on a DS cartridge.

Sony announced they have postponed the launch of PlayStation Portable in Korea from March 2005 to May 2005, due to shortage of the system.

Yahoo and Sony has announced a partnership in Japan, to develop a music download service called Mora, which will offer over 73000 songs from 39 domestic labels. The music will be encoded on Sony's ATRAC3 codec, which is compatible with mobile phones, NetMD MiniDisc Plyers, ATRAC CD Player and PlayStation Portable.

Microsoft will release the Japanese version of Forza Motorsport for Xbox on May 12 in Japan.

Sony revealed new images of SOCOM 3: U.S. NAVY SEALS, the sequel to the successful PS2 online action game. The characters will can now swim, which allows them to submerge and hide themselves from being spotted.

Here are the latest Japanese game review scores:

Armored Core: Forumula Front (PS2, From Software) - 7, 7, 6, 8 - (28/40)
Fantasic Fortune 2: Tripolarize Star (PS2, Jinx) - 6, 6, 6, 6 - (24/40)
Guisard Revolution (PS2, Kid) - 6, 5, 6, 5 - (22/40)
Harvest Moon: Poem of Happiness (GC, Marvelous) - 8, 8, 7, 8 - (31/40)
Red Ninja: End of Honor (PS2, Vivendi Universal) - 7, 7, 6, 7 - (27/40)
Shark Tale (PS2, Taito) - 7, 8, 7, 7 - (29/40)
Tales of Eternia (PSP, Namco) - 8, 8, 9, 8 - (33/40)
- Falcom announced the development of Ys: The Oath in Felghana, the latest installment of the Ys series. The platform and release date is currently unknown.

- Here are the Top 10 most popular arcade games shown at the AOU Show in Japan on February 18-19.

Mario Kart Arcade GP (Namco, TriForce) - 764 votes
Sangokushi Taisen (Sega) - 753 votes
Ibara (RiverService) - 467 votes
Idol Master (Namco) - 422 votes
Mahjong Fight Club 4 (Konami) - 345 votes
Spectral vs. Generation (RiverService) - 297 votes
Raiden III (Taito, Type-X) - 275 votes
NeoGeo Battle Colisseum (SNK Playmore, Atomsiwave) - 252 votes
Senko no Ronde (G.Rev) - 220 votes
Initial D Arcade Stage Ver.3 for Cycraft (Sega, NAOMI2) - 210 votes
- Cave will release the horizontal scrolling arcade shooter Ibara in Japan in May.

- Here are the sales figures of all the Nintendo DS titles in Japan, between launch on December 2, 2004 to February 6, 2005.

Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo) - 651,103
Sawaru Made in Wario (Nintendo) - 642,271
Pokemon Dash (Pokemon) - 302,727
Daigasso! Band Brothers (Nintendo) - 148,774
Chokkan Hitofude (Nintendo) - 96,681
Kimi no tame nara Shineru (Sega) - 92,003
Catch! Touch! Yoshi! (Nintendo) - 91,070
Kenshui Tendo Dokuta (Spike) - 70,378
Puyo Puyo Fever (Sega) - 69.038
Mr.Driller Drill Spirits (Namco) - 44,013
Zoo Keeper (Success) - 38,230
Tennis no Oujisama 2005 Crystal Drive (Konami) - 35,674
Mahjong Taikai (Koei) - 29,763
The URBZ: Sims in the City (EA) - 21,872
Spider-Man 2 (Taito) - 17,898
Brain Games Vol.1 Cool 104 Joker & Setline (Aruze) - 8,309
 
Deepak said:
Has anyone played "Project Snowblind"? Seems to be a surprise package.
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All the people who played the Beta, not so long ago, said the game was pure trash.
And judging from the scores the game got, either Crystal Dynamics heard the complaints and fixed the problems, or Eidos send some, always warmly welcomed, money hats.
 
Vysez said:
Deepak said:
Has anyone played "Project Snowblind"? Seems to be a surprise package.
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All the people who played the Beta, not so long ago, said the game was pure trash.
And judging from the scores the game got, either Crystal Dynamics heard the complaints and fixed the problems, or Eidos send some, always warmly welcomed, money hats.
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I've seen some good reviews, I hope to play it some day and see for myself who's right and who's wrong in my opinion.

Btw, to continue this thread:

New release first day sales: 24 Feb

platform title publisher sales shipment sold
1 PS2 Shin Sangoku Musou 4 Koei 388,248 61.6%
2 GC Starfox Assault Nintendo 51,911 53.3%
3 GBA Rockman EXE 5 Team of Colonel Capcom 37,130 35.1%
4 DS Another Code: Two Memories Nintendo 33,901 52.7%
5 PS2 Jissen Pachislot: Fist of the North Star+ Sega 23,175 21.3%
6 PS2 Sakura Taisen 3 Sega 23,896 58%


Nintendo will run the first nationwide DS download service from 26 February to 21 March at major stores around the country. Users will be able to download demo versions of Chokkan Hitofude and Meteos, as well as extra songs for Band Brothers. The game demos will remain in memory until the machine is turned off, but the Band Brothers songs will remain on the software cartridge permanently.

The downloadable songs for Band Brothers are:
- Toko toko Yoshi (from Catch! Touch! Yoshi!)
- Jungle Beat
- Slider (from Mario 64)
- Ashley (from Sawaru Made in Wario)
- Parthena no Kagami: A Set
- Parthena no Kagami: B Set

The two sets of Parthena no Kagami are intended to be played together as a 16 part piece, each set containing 8 parts. The Band Brothers cartridge is needed to be able to download these additional songs.


Artoon have posted a recruitment page on their website, advertising positions for planners, designers and programmers for an RPG on next-generation consoles. Recently Artoon completed work on Swords of Destiny, an air combat game for PS2, and Yoshi's Universal Gravitation for the GBA, but are perhaps best known for their action game series, Blinx, on Xbox.


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Also some new movies confirmed for the Japanese market (perhaps also music video's/J-Pop). (the signs are Korean btw)

ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION - 영상작품집 1권, 2940엔, Ki/oon Records
SAYAKA - Dolls, 2940엔, 소니 뮤직 레코즈
Skoop On Somebody - S.O.SCLIPS Vol.1, 2415엔, SME레코즈
DOUL'd OUT - “Dream'd Liveâ€￾, 2940엔, SME레코즈
sowelu - VIDEO CLIPS Vol.1, 3465엔, 데후스타레코드
Nakashima Mika - FILM LOTUS IV, 4935엔, 소니 뮤직
RYTHEM - 와타타네노메 VIDEO CLIPS 1. 3990엔, 소니 뮤직
YUKI - 유키 비디오, 3465엔, 에픽레코드제팬 (4월 27일 발매)
 
Top management changes in Sony

"Ken Kutaragi, known as the father of the PlayStation game console and thought to have been a candidate for the top job at Sony, will resign his spot on the board and lose his position as executive in charge of semiconductors and home electronics.

Kutaragi will remain atop the game division and take on the new title of Group Executive Officer on April 1, Sony said."
 
Sony Corporation (SNE) BackPrint
AWSJ(3/7) Sony Sets Special Meeting To Discuss Exec Roles (Dow Jones News Service)
Updated: Sunday, March 06, 2005 04:31PM ET


(From THE ASIAN WALL STREET JOURNAL)
By Phred Dvorak

TOKYO -- Sony Corp. has called an urgent board meeting that could be held as early as today, in which a shuffling of top management responsibilities may be discussed, say several Sony executives and managers familiar with board members' thinking.

Exactly what those discussions will entail is unclear. But the meeting was called despite a scheduled board meeting at the end of March. Some executives have suggested there may be significant management changes to come at the electronics maker.

The meeting comes amid rising internal frustration with Sony's leaders and their ability to guide the company through a period of increasing turmoil and competition in the electronics industry. A big concern: Current management looks like it is falling short on a pledge to lift operating-profit margins -- a ratio of operating income to sales that is a core measure of profitability -- to 10% within the next two years. Instead they hover around 1.5%.

In particular, attention has focused on the Sony group's top executive, Chairman and Chief Executive Nobuyuki Idei. In private conversations, however, Sony managers have expressed differing opinions on what he should do. Some have suggested Mr. Idei should cede responsibilities, while others have said he should strengthen his grip on his underlings. Inside Sony, the 67-year-old Mr. Idei has been widely expected to stay in his current position until around 2007, when Sony is supposed to have completed a turnaround plan.

Mr. Idei and his second-in-command, Sony group President Kunitake Ando, weren't available for comment.

The stresses on Sony's executive suite increased sharply in April 2003, when the company slashed its profit outlook andsaid it had serious problems in its core electronics business, which sent its shares into a tailspin.

In the months following the so-called "Sony Shock," Mr. Idei came up with an ambitious turnaround plan that called for a drastic restructuring, creation of bold, new products and operating-profit margins of 10% by March 2007. He put Ken Kutaragi, creator of Sony's PlayStation videogame business, in charge of home electronics. Then Mr. Idei announced a change in strategy that called for heavy investment in semiconductors and other key devices used in its products, and oversaw an overhaul of business units and personnel that resulted in thousands of Japanese staffers opting for early retirement.

Yet after two years, Sony's electronics profits are weak and the organizational shuffles and personnel cuts have pummeled morale without much improvement in performance. Sony's flagship Walkman music player is losing ground to Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod, while profit has slipped at its television business amid intense price competition from a host of new rivals.

Now, after a disappointing Christmas quarter, Sony expects an operating-profit margin of just 1.5% in the fiscal year ending March 31. That puts the company far from its targeted 10% in 2007, and well behind peers such as Samsung Electronics Co. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which is expecting a margin of around 3.5%.

And although most Sony managers agree that a key challenge is keeping profitability up in an industry where standardized parts mean almost anyone can build a flat-panel TV or a portable music player, there is sharp disagreement on the best way to do that. The Walkman group has suffered from a split between those who believe Sony should make its gadgets compatible with a wide range of popular services and technologies -- like the MP3 music-encoding system -- and those who push Sony's proprietary technology -- such as minidiscs and the Atrac music-encoding system. The TV group has been shaken by Mr. Kutaragi's drive to replace programs and parts they had been using with software and microchips brought over from the videogame business.

Amid that confusion, Sony managers say Mr. Idei and Mr. Ando haven't been able to steer the feuding camps in one direction, or implement the visions they have for the company. In particular, many Sony engineers say privately that they are concerned about Mr. Idei's ability to articulate his strategy for Sony, and they worry about his capacity to keep on top of key organizational changes.

Mr. Idei has even started to redefine the way he describes Sony's operating-profit-margin target. He told a Japanese business magazine in an interview published in mid-February that it was "nonsense" to think he had given a firm commitment to hit 10% by 2007, and that he had only meant Sony should build a corporate structure capable of reaching 10%.

The article has circulated widely inside Sony, and some say it underscores their concerns about the company's leadership.

The man often cited as Sony's strongest leader and visionary is Mr. Kutaragi, now an executive deputy president. Nevertheless, although the PlayStation unit is one of Sony's most successful and profitable businesses, Mr. Kutaragi hasn't yet had a big success outside of videogames. And one of his flagship consumer-electronics products -- a hybrid DVD recorder and game console called the PSX -- hasn't sold well in the Japanese market.

Although engineers admire Mr. Kutaragi's bid to secure electronics earnings by creating a new, ultrapowerful processing chip, analysts warn that the strategy could be risky if the chip doesn't take off.

Mr. Kutaragi wasn't available for comment.

---

Merissa Marr contributed to this article.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

03-06-05 1631ET
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Sony, Lagging Behind Rivals, Hands Reins to a Foreigner

Stringer, Chief of U.S. Unit, Inherits Task of Reviving Core Electronics Business

How Welshman Wooed Tokyo

By PHRED DVORAK in Tokyo and MERISSA MARR in Los Angeles
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
March 7, 2005; Page A1

In the biggest management upheaval in Sony Corp.'s 59-year history, Chairman and Chief Executive Nobuyuki Idei resigned after a series of stumbles and handed the reins to Welsh-born American Howard Stringer, a former television executive who heads Sony's U.S. operations.

The move represents a recognition that Sony badly needs to change as it navigates a transformation in its core consumer-electronics business. The company that invented the Walkman and dominated the videogame market with its PlayStation machine has increasingly lagged behind in the Internet era. Nimbler rivals have beaten Sony to market with new products such as flat-panel television sets. The rapid rise of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod digital music player has given Sony fits.

Mr. Stringer hopes to revive Sony's dream of marrying cutting-edge electronics with entertainment content. At an emergency meeting in Tokyo this morning, Sony's board approved the transfer of power, making Mr. Stringer one of only a handful of foreigners ever to lead a top Japanese company. The board also approved the resignation of Mr. Idei's second-in-command, President Kunitake Ando, who will be succeeded by Executive Deputy President Ryoji Chubachi.

The naming of a foreigner recalls Nissan Motor Corp.'s appointment of Brazilian-born Carlos Ghosn in April 1999. Mr. Ghosn, who is also on Sony's board, is credited with bringing the auto maker back from the brink of bankruptcy, slashing costs while reviving its model lineup.

Sony's choice is unorthodox for reasons beyond the fact that Mr. Stringer isn't Japanese and doesn't speak the language. The gregarious Mr. Stringer, once Dan Rather's producer at CBS News, has no engineering background -- a significant challenge at a company that still relies mainly on hardware such as television sets and music players for most of its sales. Although Mr. Stringer runs Sony's U.S. operations out of New York, he has been spending more time recently in England, where his wife and children live.

Mr. Stringer's biggest challenge will be to revive Sony's electronics business, which last quarter accounted for around 70% of revenue but only 36% of its $1.32 billion in operating income.

The 63-year-old Mr. Stringer has made his name at Sony by leading a turnaround of its U.S. entertainment operations. A decade ago, Sony recorded a humbling $3.2 billion write-down related to its Hollywood movie studio, which it bought in 1988. Under Mr. Stringer, Sony has streamlined its movie and music businesses, slashing hundreds of jobs. And Sony Pictures Entertainment has delivered global hits including its "Spider-Man" franchise. During the October-December quarter, Sony's movie business recorded operating profit of $178 million, or 13% of Sony's total.

Mr. Stringer has convinced his bosses in Tokyo to bulk up on content. Sony last year led an investor group that has agreed to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., giving the company access to thousands more movie titles that it hopes to exploit on DVD. Also, Sony Music Entertainment has merged with Bertelsmann AG's BMG.

But Sony's 15-year quest for synergy between hardware and software remains largely unconsummated -- as symbolized by its failure to take the lead in digital-music players, which should have been an ideal arena for Sony to combine its electronics expertise with its ownership of entertainment content. Apple has succeeded not only with the iPod but also with its iTunes online service, the top way to download songs legally over the Internet. Sony's own online music service, Sony Connect, has attracted few shoppers so far.

Much of the criticism for these failures has been directed at Mr. Idei, 67, who has fought to increase the importance of entertainment and content in his decade at Sony's helm. Insiders say he has been searching for a way to shake up the company and instill a greater sense of urgency. Putting Mr. Stringer in the top post is the ultimate step in Sony's quest to bring together its media and hardware businesses.

As is typical at Japanese companies, Mr. Idei was given considerable leeway in choosing his own successor, and the naming of Mr. Stringer was Mr. Idei's idea, said a person familiar with the plan. Mr. Idei and his No. 2, Mr. Ando, will stay on at Sony as advisers.

In a written comment, Mr. Stringer said he hoped to use his experience in turning around the U.S. operations to help boost profitability group-wide. "I believe the entire global organization is hungry to make this same transition" to better returns, he said in a written comment. Mr Idei praised Mr. Stringer's "global perspective" and said the new management will "focus intensely on energizing the entire Sony Group."

Mr. Stringer has built strong relationships with Sony's top brass in Tokyo. Unlike some other Sony executives in the U.S., who steer clear of visiting Japan as much as possible, Mr. Stringer has put in regular visits to company headquarters. He is not expected to move to Tokyo but rather "live on a plane," as one insider put it. Sony said Mr. Stringer will be based in New York and Tokyo.

One goal of elevating Mr. Stringer is to emphasize that Sony is a sprawling global business that needs global leadership. Bringing in a non-Japanese chief executive will likely be a shock to a company that is still controlled on the whole by Japanese executives in Tokyo. Mr. Stringer's background as a media executive at CBS is another jolt to a company that prides itself on its engineering tradition going back to the development of the transistor radio in the 1950s.

The choice of Mr. Chubachi as president is designed to make up for Mr. Stringer's lack of experience with hardware. Mr. Chubachi, a career Sony engineer, is now in charge of the business division that makes batteries, optical pickups and other key devices that go into Sony products.

In elevating Messrs. Stringer and Chubachi, Sony is bypassing the man often cited as its top visionary: Ken Kutaragi, an executive deputy president who created Sony's PlayStation videogame business and is now in charge of home electronics. Although PlayStation is one of Sony's most successful and profitable businesses, Mr. Kutaragi hasn't yet had a big success outside of videogames. One of his flagship consumer-electronics products -- a hybrid DVD recorder and game console called the PSX -- has not sold well in Japan. He has been immersed in a project to build a new ultrapowerful processing chip slated for use in the next-generation PlayStation machine and other devices.

Mr. Kutaragi will lose his executive deputy president title after April 1 and be moved back to focusing on videogames, Sony said. His post as executive overseeing home electronics as well as the semiconductor business will be taken over by Mr. Chubachi. Mr. Kutaragi couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

Mr. Idei, a marketing whiz, was appointed to Sony's top post in 1995. Until then, Sony had been led by engineers and hardware men, including founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka. Mr. Idei's first task was to better integrate the movie and music operations Sony had bought in the late 1980s. He hired Mr. Stringer and brought the entertainment businesses back in control after a period under free-spending American executives.

Mr. Idei also presided over the successful launch of the Vaio personal computer, and later named the executive in charge of that business, Mr. Ando, to the president's post.

But Mr. Idei struggled to impose his will. He proposed to sell Sony's life-insurance company to a foreign buyer, only to have the deal torpedoed by fierce resistance from inside the company, Sony managers say. And some engineers say that under Mr. Idei's leadership, too many of Sony's resources were plowed into content and service development and not enough into development of key hardware devices and technologies. Sony has fallen behind other Asian makers in the fast-growing area of flat-panel television sets. Its efforts to make a competitor to Apple's iPod have been plagued by internal conflict over which division should lead the effort.

The stresses on Sony's executive suite grew in April 2003, when the company slashed its profit outlook and said it had serious problems in its electronics business. That sent its shares into a tailspin. In the months following the so-called Sony Shock, Mr. Idei came up with a turnaround plan that called for drastic restructuring, bold new products and 10% in operating-profit margins by March 2007. He put Mr. Kutaragi in charge of home electronics and invested heavily in the new processing chip for the next-generation PlayStation. As part of the overhaul, thousands of Japanese staffers opted for early retirement.

Nearly two years later, electronics profits are still weak and the constant organizational shuffles have pummeled morale, Sony insiders say. After a disappointing Christmas quarter, during which nearly all of Sony's key products saw profits decline amid cutthroat price-cutting, Sony expects an operating-profit margin of only 1.5% in the fiscal year ending March 31. That puts Sony far from its targeted 10% in 2007 and well behind peers such as Samsung Electronics Co. or even long-troubled Japanese rival Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., the maker of Panasonic products, which has revived in recent years and is expecting a margin of around 3.5%.

Sony managers complain that Messrs. Idei and Ando haven't been able to steer feuding camps of engineers or implement a vision for the company.

That is exactly what Sony is looking to Mr. Stringer for. When Mr. Stringer was first hired to head Sony Corp. of America in 1997, it was reeling from a series of disasters in its entertainment business that left Tokyo management highly skeptical about American executives.

Sony's Los Angeles-based Columbia Pictures division was still rocking from huge losses under the management of Peter Guber and Jon Peters, whose lavish spending on private chefs and other frills made Sony the laughingstock of Hollywood. The head of the New York-based music unit, Thomas D. Mottola, refused to attend meetings with his Japanese bosses in Tokyo. Mr. Stringer's nonconfrontational style and British charm were part of his appeal.

Mr. Stringer, a former TV reporter who became a U.S. citizen in 1985, spent nearly three decades at CBS News, first as a producer and eventually as head of its news, sports and entertainment divisions. During that time he developed a reputation for collaborating equally well with Hollywood talent and corporate management. Knighted by the British monarchy in 2000, he has broken bread with Prince Charles and in 1993 scored a coup for CBS by luring late-night comedian David Letterman from his longtime home at NBC.

When Mr. Idei contacted him, Mr. Stringer was leading a struggling interactive-TV venture and looking for a new job. Mr. Idei, however, played his cards close to his chest. Through a sweltering lunch -- the restaurant's air-conditioner was on the blink -- Mr. Idei chatted blandly about the broadcast and movie industries, at times lapsing into long silences. He didn't mention a job once. "I had no idea how the lunch went," Mr. Stringer recalled in a recent interview.

Mr. Stringer responded to the vagueness with a tolerance and patience that was to become a hallmark of his dealings with Sony's Japanese executives. Some months later, when Mr. Idei flew Mr. Stringer to Tokyo for dinner at a sushi restaurant with live shrimp leaping on a hot plate, Mr. Stringer recalled that Mr. Idei handed him a piece of paper with a few responsibilities listed on it and a salary figure lower than he had made in 15 years. Mr. Stringer took the job, despite the warnings of his friends. At his inaugural news conference, he claimed to be "fine" with Mr. Idei's comparison of his job to that of a computer operating system, since it's "difficult to define" what an operating system does.

Even after taking over Sony's U.S. operations, Mr. Stringer was given little to do by Mr. Idei, who was still wary of American executives. "I kept saying to him: 'You hired me but you haven't given me any responsibility,' " recalled Mr. Stringer in a recent interview. "I had had a real job...and now I was in charge of a bunch of movie theaters and a Metreon [shopping mall] that wasn't making any money," Mr. Stringer said.

Mr. Stringer began the slow process of wooing Sony brass. He traveled to Tokyo every month, making sure to have dinner with Japanese executives each time. He tried to learn Japanese -- until he realized most Sony executives spoke pretty good English.

Attempting to bond with Mr. Idei, Mr. Stringer invited him to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and Herbert Allen's exclusive media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. He invited Mr. Idei to a dinner party at his Manhattan townhouse, flanking him with TV anchor Barbara Walters, director Nora Ephron and New York gossip columnist Liz Smith.

Then Mr. Idei started giving Mr. Stringer some real responsibility: first Sony Canada, then Sony Electronics U.S. In December 1998, he was given oversight over the pictures and music business as well. Once in charge, Mr. Stringer moved to put his own people and strategies in place.

One of Mr. Stringer's first jobs was to get the entertainment assets in shape as stand-alone businesses. Among his key hires during that time, Mr. Stringer hired former Credit Suisse First Boston banker Rob Wiesenthal in 2000 as chief strategy officer. In 2003, Mr. Stringer then turned to an executive with no music experience, former NBC President Andrew Lack, to run Sony Music. Later, he installed an executive with limited movie experience, Michael Lynton, to oversee the studio.

On the movie side, the "Spider-Man" franchise went a long way toward soothing Tokyo's nerves over the entertainment business, spinning out billions of dollars of cash through movies, merchandise and other avenues. Still, some in Tokyo were having a hard time coming to terms with the newfound success of the entertainment business.

Before an analyst meeting in Tokyo in 2003, Mr. Stringer suggested to other Sony executives that Sony begin by touting the success of "Spider-Man." He was bluntly told that Japanese investors didn't care about the entertainment business. But Mr. Idei was sympathetic to the idea, and when Sony met analysts in New York he started by holding up a magazine with "Spider-Man" on the cover.

As the entertainment business stabilized, Messrs. Stringer and Wiesenthal plunged into deal-making mode with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and BMG deals. Nevertheless, Mr. Stringer got another rude awakening about Tokyo's appetite for the entertainment business at last year's annual shareholders meeting. Not a single investor asked a question about the movie or music business. Sensing Mr. Stringer's frustration, Mr. Idei asked him to say something. "It's a long way to come for five hours without answering a single question," Mr. Stringer told the shareholders. "Nobody buys a piece of hardware because they like hardware. They buy it to play movies or music content."

Sony is not expected to seek a replacement for Mr. Stringer in his role as head of Sony Corp. of America, say people close to the company.

Long an advocate for the convergence strategy that Sony initially envisaged, Mr. Stringer said in a recent interview he believes Sony's expanded entertainment assets "are at a level that gives us comfort to develop synergies more efficiently." He added: "The next level is to prepare for the truly digital revolution. We've got to get the relationship between content and devices seamlessly managed."
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From MagicBox:

"Nokia announced the worldwide shipment of N-Gage has reached 1.5 million units. The company is planning to launch a redesigned model of N-Gage QD in the next few months, which will run on the CDMA wireless network and feature new colors, look and feel.

Sega of America announced they will release a brand new Sonic the Hedgehog title for unspecified platform this holiday season, called Sonic Adventure 3: Shadow of Hedgehog. The game will have a darker theme and emphasis on action, and for the first time Sonic can shoot down opponents with his new gun."
 
From Magicbox.com:

" The Silent Hill series producer Akira Yamaoka mentioned that there is no plans to develop a PSP or DS version of Silent Hill, because he felt it is difficult to express fear and terror on handheld systems. However, he is interested in Microsoft's HD era concept and 16:9 rendition. Yamaoka said the Silent Hill development team is currently working on several new projects."
 
Deepak said:
" The Silent Hill series producer Akira Yamaoka mentioned that there is no plans to develop a PSP or DS version of Silent Hill, because he felt it is difficult to express fear and terror on handheld systems.
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They should make a game that's all about trying to make you drop the handheld. People are certainly terrified of breaking them! ;)
 
cthellis42 said:
Deepak said:
" The Silent Hill series producer Akira Yamaoka mentioned that there is no plans to develop a PSP or DS version of Silent Hill, because he felt it is difficult to express fear and terror on handheld systems.
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They should make a game that's all about trying to make you drop the handheld. People are certainly terrified of breaking them! ;)
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:LOL: :LOL: Now THAT would be scary.
 
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