Who gives a f*ck about what retailers think of the higher prices? It's the consumer who has to buy these games. And recession plus higher prices equal lower sales, increased piracy and ultimately lower profit. €70 is the highest price i'm willing to pay for a game, and that's even pushing it. I don't care if the game is the best that happened to humanity since sliced bread, if it's over €70, I'm not buying it.

I don't think that having a billion studios working on one game is going to deliver a top notch product. It often leads to a game that looks, feels and plays like a complete mess.

BioShock was a great game, but the story was complete (although the end was terrible). BioShock 2 looks exactly like the first game and while Rapture was great, after a couple of hours I was getting bored by its design.

Well, I think he has a point... if you only look at the American PSN. In Europe it's balls, the US got things like Qore, Pulse and the videostore (although they need to move away from a single update per week to daily updates). In Europe it's just one big fuck up, with countries that have certain features that others don't

Well, PS3 first party sales are horrible if you compare them to first party sales of Nintendo and Microsoft. I believe Gears 2 hit 3 million units sold worldwide within a month and Nintendo's titles continue to sell over a longer period of time. If the exclusive titles, reasons why people should choose a PS3 over other consoles struggle to reach even 10% of its installed base, something has gone wrong.

The words Dave Perry and a succesfull product don't go well together.