Japanese mag surveys development community on PS3
In the latest issue of the Japanese magazine Ge-Maga, which is also the longest running magazine in Japan, an anonymous survey was held regarding developers takes on Sony's slammin' console. Since most of us can't read kanji very well, IGN did the honors of translating the stats and they are summarized below:
Price:
90.29% -- think it's too pricey
9.71% -- think it's juuuuuuust right
Two Hardware Models Approach:
56.31% disagree with it
39.32% agree with it
4.37% have no opinion
Launch Titles?
55.82% don't think they'll help sell PS3
39.32% say they're fine and dandy like sour candy
4.86% are unsure how the launch titles will help
E3 Impressions?
48.54% unchanged
32.52% are less confident
3.39% felt relieved
15.55% have no impression to give
Sales Goal of 6M units by March '07?
62.13% say no way
35.43% say yes way
2.44% say maybe
This may seem dismal news to the PS3 fan, but remember -- there's still the Tokyo Game Show in September. Hopefully PS3 can pull out a few surprises like Devil May Cry 4 or Resident Evil 5. Those would help on its launch, but in Japan at least, Sony's main competition will be the Wii.
