Did financial issues stop Sony from dropping the price of the Playstation 3? That’s what Epic Games’ vice president Mark Rein thinks, and he told everyone so in a mildly amusing interview with Eurogamer.
“Sony has had a difficult year and I think they had to do what they had to do to try to be profitable. They have their own financial issues to solve and lowering the price of the console would probably have made their situation worse.”
He did add that a price drop would happen at some point and that the media conglomerate would “be just fine,” which will no doubt come as a relief to Sony. Even if it doesn’t, they might find solace in the fact that the PS3 is enjoying strong sales in the Middle East, according to Emirates Business. In a touching, and frankly, suprising turn of events it also seems that Microsoft and Sony will team up to organise a series of gaming events through a new Middle Eastern gaming association.
Rein has obviously been getting about a bit recently, he told IndustryGamers that Epic would be standing by it’s policy of not developing for the Wii, and even accused adult-oriented games of being “huge financial flops” on Nintendo’s box.
