Speaking to VG247 at Games Convention last week, SCEE president David Reeves said that Sony’s announcement-heavy presentation at the show on Wednesday was thanks to only moving on service and product confirmations in Europe when “everything’s ironed out” on a global level.

“Well, I think that was the point,” said the exec when asked of the significance of making global product announcements in Europe.

“People say, ‘Well, why do we always get things last? Why can’t we say things?’ Well, I’ve said this many times before: sometimes it’s an advantage to be last in Europe, you know, when everything’s ironed out.

“This time, we do have things to say in the European [market]. We have the music service, and we’re doing great things on SingStar and there’s more to come. These are global announcements.

“They recognize that the show’s in Europe, whether it’s in Leipzig, Cologne or London: we can do the announcements wherever. So they said to us in Tokyo, ‘Do you want to do it here?’ And we said, ‘Yeah, we’d love to do it here.’”

Reeves led a sparkling presentation at Games Convention, during which Sony announced a 160Gb PS3 SKU, the PSP-3000, made the first showing of playable footage of Quantic’s Heavy Rain, announced the next SingStar and more.

http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/08/25/reeves-sometimes-its-an-advantage-to-be-last-in-europe/

 

SCEE sucks so bad. Now they are proud of being the idiots of the three regions.


AMAZING.

Time for a chill pill, Kyros

SCEE cracks me up. Apart from the fact that we got the PS3 6 months after the other regions. (Which was not soo bad because there was still not much to play for the first months)

- Europe got the semi-software BC version from the start for the same price in Euro
- We are the only region that ONLY has the 40Gb no-BC version
- Europe didn't see a Dualshock controller for months after the US and Japan had them
- PSN in continental Europe sucks just give us the possibility to buy things in the American store you assclowns.
- When the US and Japan got the MGS4 bundle with MGS4, a 80Gb PS3 and Dualshock we got a 40Gb PS3 with SIXAXIS and MGS4 for 20E discount. Yippieh
- Movie store? Forget it.
- And I don't have to talk about the "artistic" SCEE advertisements that were running for the PS3.


All in all SCEE is the zit on the butt of Sony. And Europeans are second-class citizens.

"And Europeans are second-class citizens."

I agree with you on that Kyros!

I only get a 360 because SONY delays in Europe!

Reeves is on a rampage these past few days...lol.

Mirror's Edge, PS2 b/c, now explaining why being treated like Sony's step child is a good thing.

"Its to eat the scraps that are left over after everyone else is done. That way you'll know if its poisoned or not."

Kyros said: Time for a chill pill, Kyros SCEE cracks me up. Apart from the fact that we got the PS3 6 months after the other regions. (Which was not soo bad because there was still not much to play for the first months) - Europe got the semi-software BC version from the start for the same price in Euro - We are the only region that ONLY has the 40Gb no-BC version - Europe didn't see a Dualshock controller for months after the US and Japan had them - PSN in continental Europe sucks just give us the possibility to buy things in the American store you assclowns. - When the US and Japan got the MGS4 bundle with MGS4, a 80Gb PS3 and Dualshock we got a 40Gb PS3 with SIXAXIS and MGS4 for 20E discount. Yippieh - Movie store? Forget it. - And I don't have to talk about the "artistic" SCEE advertisements that were running for the PS3. All in all SCEE is the zit on the butt of Sony. And Europeans are second-class citizens.

 

 Hey that is the first time I agree with you. As a European, you are f*cked. No matter which console you supoort.

Funny, I just said that in another thread, but i will repeat it.

MS with its VoD. 120 movies are offered here in Germany, compared to 540 in the USA (plus 480 TV shows). In Europe, the Video marketplace is just offered in Germany, UK and France.

Nintendo likes to release the games much later in Europe, (Brawl 6 months!)

Europe is already a very important market but it could be even greater as soon as the companies start to treat Europe like they treat Japan or NA.

the popularity of worldwide releases is growing, so it's only a matter of time before they remove their collective heads from their asses and release at the same time.
The problem a lot of the time is delays due to localization i think. (NA mainly needs English, Europe needs French, Italian, German, Finnish, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese etc.)

its the stupid EU laws that make getting games there take so long

Wow, Reeves is a real idiot. Sony isn't in last place in Europe, Microsoft is. The guy really doesnt pay attention does he >.>