Tag archive: Deering

“At a press event attended by more than 400 journalists from all over the world in Bordeaux yesterday, the president of Sony Europe Chris Deering made it clear that Sony is moving to leverage its various interests in the worlds of computers, gaming, audio and vision technology as well as its interests in the music and movies industries to move away from being a dominant entertainment powerhouse. Moving on to the television segment of… Read More

Although less enlightening than Deering's fascinating keynote at the ELSPA Games Summit in London last month, this interview did include a few interesting morsels of information – most notably a comment on the price point which the PSP will launch at. According to Deering, “it will certainly be less than portable DVD players and likely more comparable to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance” – suggesting a price point… Read More

Peter Moore, the one-time head of Sega of America who is now a Microsoft corporate VP for retail sales and marketing, has launched a scathing attack on Nintendo's strategy in the console market and on handheld gaming as a whole. Speaking at yesterday's ELSPA Games Summit in London, Moore told his audience that Microsoft has no intentions of following Sony and Nokia into the handheld gaming business, commenting that… Read More

Games for the device will be released on Sony's new Universal Media Disc (UMD) format, rather than on memory sticks as some had predicted, and Deering hinted that the pricing system for the titles would be flexible, allowing some to be priced significantly lower than others. Some games, he revealed, could be priced “as high as