News Blips: PS3 70% Less To Make, New Square Enix Countdown Site, Braid On PS3, and More

For all you complainers that think the PS3 is still expensive, well, you're wrong. It's actually cheaper to make now. So stop your complaining, cheapos!

News Blips:

â€¢ PS3 costs 70% less to make, still 100% expensive for you. Sony confirmed today that the manufacturing costs of the PS3 are down 70% since it launched three years ago. That means we can expect a price drop, right? Hahaha! Sigh... [Edge]

â€¢ Gasp: Tony Hawk: Ride will feature real life skateboarders? Wow! This must be a first for the series. No? Oh. Hmm. We, uh, knew that. [Eurogamer]

â€¢ Square Enix tests our patience with new countdown site. And we're failing miserably. But if you wanna take the annoyance test, go right on ahead! Oh, and let us know what the hell it is next Friday. Thanks! [GameSpot]

â€¢ If Braid could fast forward time, it'd possibly be on the PS3 right now. Looks like it's finally time for Xbox Live Arcade Game Braid to come to the PS3 as a German ratings board recently slapped a number on the game. You just know Cher is excited to hear this. [Kotaku]

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Aaron Thomas

July 31, 2009

Thank God there's another countdown clock going. I was worried after the last Sega one that we might have to go two or three weeks without one. That was a close call!

Tony Capri

I see what you did there...with your sarcasm and fancy words. :P

Seventy percent? Really? Yowza! That's huge change in manufacturing costs. So, basically they should be able to undersell Wii at this point. Of course, there are all those billions of dollars they lost in the first couple of years.

Toby Davis

I don't want braid and if I could sell braid for xbla games I would

Michael Pangelina

Of the skaters, apparently Christian Hosoi and Rodney Mullen are a big deal. But there are less well-known skaters too, like Mike Mo Capaldi and Steve Nesser.

That's pretty I'd say Mike Mo is one of the biggest names in skating right now. Kind of sad to see Mike Mo and Alex got swept up by the Hawk man's game, I would've liked to have seen them in the next Skate.

And god damnit, Sony better drop the price of the PS3 soon. Hopefully they'll drop the cost of fixing them too, my PS3's been dead for far too long now.

UUGH, goddamnit, I really need to learn how to proof read my comments better. That's like the 3rd time that's happened. I meant to say "That's pretty funny," I wish there was an edit function for the comments.

Andrew Hiscock

I have a countdown clock to when Aaron head explodes.

It's pretty nifty and features Hello Kitty