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- Ken Kutaragi mentioned that Sony does not plan to lower the retail price of PS3 in North America and Europe. The reason is that people in both regions were very well accepted the prices, but in Japan the feedback was not supportive, so Sony lowered the price by 20% in Japan. Besides, Americans vastly prefer the 60GB model, which sells for US$599.

- Phil Harrison said PlayStation 3 is still region-free for games, but not for movies.

- Downloadable PSone, PS2, Mega Drive and PC-Engine games will not be available right at launch, they will be available at some point after launch.

- Enterbrain president Hirokazu Hamamura said the lower price of PS3 will drive PS3's unit sales. Although it is still more expensive than its rivals, but the new price put PS3 within allowable range of game machine prices. Koei's CEO Kenji Matsubara said the new price means speedier PS3 sales and lower per-game development costs quickly.

- Namco Bandai announced its racing game Ridge Racer will be available in PS3's e-distribution service, players can download the game from PS3 to PSP, and play on PSP.

- Here are some new images of Sony / Factor 5's PlayStation 3 dragon battle game LAIR, the game will be released in Japan in Spring 2007.

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- Here are some new images of Capcom's PlayStation 3 action game Devil May Cry 4.

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- Here are some new images of Koei's PS3 action battle game Blade Storm: Hundred Years War, the story is about the hundred years war between English and French in Europethere will be 10 initially playable characters, you can issue commands to individual unit to tell them what to do.

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- Genki announced Wangan Midnight for PlayStation 3, a racing battle game based on the anime of the same name. In the game you can race in the Shutoku and Wangan area in Japan.

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- Genki is also bringing Wangan Midnight Portable to PSP, the PSP version will be able to exchange data with the PS3 version.

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W i i

- Here are some new images of Marvelous Interactive's Wii farming / life simulation game Bokujou Monogatari [Harvest Moon], you can perform a lot of tasks by simply moving the controller, such as shaking the controller to water the plants.

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