Let us be the first to welcome Brazil into the year 2000. The world’s gamers have been enjoying Sony
’s PlayStation 2 since that year, but it is just now arriving in Brazil. Sure it’s been available to Brazilians by unofficial means, but not in any legit way.
If you live in Brazil, you can now enjoy last-generation’s game console champion for just 799 BRL, which translates to roughly $461 in US coin. We don’t see this flying off of Brazilian shelves. Do you?
Now instead of paying outrageous black market prices, they can pay Sony an outrageous price directly.
If you’re an Xbox 360 owner who was pouring your eyes over that Link recreation in the PlayStation 3 title 3D Dot Game Heroes with wistful desire, here’s some good news: It may well be that an Xbox 360 port of the game could be released in the future.
Speaking to a Japanese website that recently visited Silicon Studios’ offices (via Andriasang), producer Hiroyuki Misawa explained that a port is absolutely possible. “We can do it. Our libraries are multiplatform, so it would be possible to make it for 360.” Whether it will happen, though, appears to depend on the game’s publisher, From Software. “It’s up to From. We’re a developer, so if there’s a call to make it, I believe we can do it,” Misawa said.
There’s still no specific North American date for the PlayStation 3 version, though, so it may be a while before we find out for sure whether a 360 port lies in Silicon Studios’ future.
Sony’s games division has reportedly suffered almost $5 billion in losses since the company launched the PS3 in November 2006.
According to VG247, figures from Sony’s investor relations website show that total PlayStation division losses since the console’s release stand at $4.7 billion.
The report points out that the figure includes losses incurred by Sony’s VAIO business over the past two quarters. VAIO has been grouped with the PlayStation unit under the company’s Networked Products & Services division since the beginning of the platform holder’s current financial year a little over six months ago.
In comparison, the site claims that Microsoft’s Xbox division suffered losses of $4.2 billion in the four business years following the original Xbox’s November 2001 launch.
Earlier this week as part of its second quarter financial results, Sony said that its Networked Products & Services division had recorded a drop in sales and increased losses on a year-on-year basis. Declines within its games business were attributed primarily to “the impact of the appreciation of the yen as well as a decrease in unit sales of PlayStation 2 hardware and software”.
