Sony Gearing for Worldwide Announcement

News | March 30th, 2009 by Staggs

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Update: We bet wrong, Sony has officially announced the $99 Playstation 2. Fantastic. This news was well worth the anticipation. (Not.)

Sony is apparently in the midst of preparing some “big” announcement in the next 24 hours on the global scale. A mother of speculation, and a shroud of dust is forming around the blogosphere as people try to debunk exactly what Sony is going to announce. Truth be told, no one has a flipping clue. We’ve got some ideas and how likely each one is.

Price Drop (Likelihood, yeah right…): Not a chance. Sony has already stated that they don’t plan on dropping the price, and they don’t have to. They are looking for their console, the Playstation 3, to be the sort of machine that endures in the long run. And, I’ll say the plan is working considering the slew of competition (Xbox 360s) that have been breaking down since the day they came out. Sony will retain their price for a while yet. Don’t worry folks… sadly.
Netflix (Likelihood, very good!): Somehow Microsoft got to be the first with the Netflix deal, and has paid off because Netflix is now focusing on more streaming movie service. It would be completely appropriate for Sony to announce a similar partnership with Netflix. What makes this deal even better is the fact that Sony is a major motion picture producer — all of Sony movies are unviewable on the Xbox 360 for obvious reasons. These movies would expectedly be released for streaming on the PS3. This could be it.
Firmware Update (Likelihood, sure…): While firmware updates are great, for the amount of hype the announcement has brought up we don’t think that Sony would startle the whole gaming community just for some firmware. And no, they won’t make the PS3 play HD-DVDs as some speculators believe — wheres the damn point in that? Exactly what a firmware update would include, we’re not sure. Perhaps Sony needs to start charging for their online services? Who knows.
Game Announcement (Likelihood, globally who cares?): The idea of a global game announcement sounds stupid. Like a firmware update, reasons mentioned above, why would Sony waste time announcing a game? Globally, nonetheless. This is just silly.
PS2 Price Cut (Likelihood, maybe, probably not): Well this isn’t as exciting, but several sources from Joystiq and Kotaku have pointed out that a price cut could be announced for the Playstation 2. Nice. However, for the same reason that the PS3 won’t be cut, I thought that Sony had regional pricing… not global? Why would a PS2 price drop be global if its a regional thing? I don’t know, so I’ll say its not that likely. If it is, who really cares, the PS2 needs to die off already.

As fanboys try and figure it out, we’ll be waiting until tomorrow to hear official word from Sony themselves. We’re betting on a firmware update and/or Netflix availability. See you tomorrow!

Update: Sony has already chimed in with some rumor management, thanks to Joystiq, by issuing a statement saying that “we do not have plans for a PS3 price drop, and any rumors to that effect are false and are the result of speculation.” As we said, let it go folks.