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Read More »SONY: ‘We’re committed to PS2’
US PlayStation boss Jack Tretton has pledged another strong year of support for PlayStation 2 – and told E3 that over 100 new titles will be released on the platform this year. In a notably noisier conference than Nintendo’s presentation this morning, Tretton (pictured) kicked off proceedings by boasting that …
Read More »Tretton: E3 09 needs exciting floor show
Sony Computer Entertainment America president Jack Tretton has called for a return to the ‘exciting floor show’ of bygone E3 Expos. Tretton’s comments echo those of EA Sports’s Peter Moore and THQ’s Ian Curran, who have both demanded that the event regain some razzmatazz” and strut and swagger”. Last year’s …
Read More »E3 08: This is the year of PS3
Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Jack Tretton has kicked off today’s E3 press conference in LA by telling a packed auditorium: This is the year of the PS3” and boasting that PS3 has the biggest exclusives in the industry.” Tretton (pictured) promised the crowd that the company was just …
Read More »PS3 launch was a baptism under fire
SCEA president Jack Tretton has told MCV that the launch of PlayStation 3 was one of the toughest periods of his career so far. In the second of MCV’s new regular series of ‘MCV Legends’, the top Sony exec revealed that the media storm and weight of expectation surrounding the …
Read More »Sonys Tretton gloats over Blu-Ray victory
CEO of SCEA Jack Tretton has talked of Sony’s joy at seeing Blu-Ray win the next-gen DVD format war against HD-DVD. According to Eurogamer, Tretton said in a statement: "The emergence of Blu-ray as the de facto high definition standard is one more reason why PS3 is a great value …
Read More »Tretton: PS3 has become leading development platform
The boss of Sony America, Jack Tretton, has claimed in an interview with IGN that developers are increasingly adopting PS3 as their lead platform and then ‘porting down’ the titles from Sony’s machine to rival platforms. "We are now starting to see developers creating games on PS3 and then porting …
Read More »Tretton: We underestimated PS3 ‘education process’
CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America Jack Tretton has admitted that many consumers were still left in the dark about PS3’s capabilities following the console’s launch. In an interview with GameDaily , to celebrate his first full year as CEO, Tretton said: We are on our fourth platform introduction, and …
Read More »Tretton: We made PS3 missteps in year one
The CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, Jack Tretton, has admitted that the PS3 has failed to meet his company’s expectations in the first year of its life, but says that he is extremely confident as the industry heads toward Christmas. Speaking to MSNBC, Trettong stated: I don’t think there’s …
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