Koei Exec Keni Matsuhara on PS3 Pricing

When will it ever end…people commenting on Playstation3’s price? This time, it’s Koei executive Kenji Matsuhara who dishes out his opinion. Although unlike most of those who commented on the $499-$599 price tag of Sony’s next-gen console, Matsuhara thinks that the ‘expensive’ cost won’t bring the PS3 down. In an interview with Japan’s Impress Watch, Matsuhara noted that such a price is to be expected of a new console.

In the same interview, the Koei exec expressed his pleasure at the features Sony has put into the PS3. Even before E3, Matsuhara has been vocal about the things he want to see in the upcoming gaming console: common functionality required for online games (like billing system), quick adoption rate, and hard disk. Since a hard disk will be included in the PS3, Matsuhara says he cannot complain… Although he would still want to squeeze a DVR-style recording function into the console.

As for the common functionality, the exec only has a simple “this seems to be okay” comment. The quick adoption rate, he commented, will depend on how the market will receive the next-gen console from Sony.

With Matsuhara saying that there is “suffcient possibility” of Koei providing online games for the PS3, dare we hope for more of the company’s classics (*cough* Dynasty Warriors *cough*) to be ushered to the PS3? Hope so.

When will it ever end…people commenting on Playstation3’s price? This time, it’s Koei executive Kenji Matsuhara who dishes out his opinion. Although unlike most of those who commented on the $499-$599 price tag of Sony’s next-gen console, Matsuhara thinks that the ‘expensive’ cost won’t bring the PS3 down. In an interview with Japan’s Impress Watch, Matsuhara noted that such a price is to be expected of a new console.

In the same interview, the Koei exec expressed his pleasure at the features Sony has put into the PS3. Even before E3, Matsuhara has been vocal about the things he want to see in the upcoming gaming console: common functionality required for online games (like billing system), quick adoption rate, and hard disk. Since a hard disk will be included in the PS3, Matsuhara says he cannot complain… Although he would still want to squeeze a DVR-style recording function into the console.

As for the common functionality, the exec only has a simple “this seems to be okay” comment. The quick adoption rate, he commented, will depend on how the market will receive the next-gen console from Sony.

With Matsuhara saying that there is “suffcient possibility” of Koei providing online games for the PS3, dare we hope for more of the company’s classics (*cough* Dynasty Warriors *cough*) to be ushered to the PS3? Hope so.