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Activision CEO Hoping For $200 PS3, 360 By ‘09
Gamespot reports on comments made by Activision CEO Bobby Kotick at this week’s Reuters Media Summit in NYC; the publishing veteran feels strongly that deep price cuts are needed in the next two years to ensure that this generation of consoles reaches a truly mass market audience. For comparison: “The original Xbox dropped to the sub-$200 range six months after debuting at $299 in November 2001. The PlayStation 2, which also retailed for $299 when it launched in 2000, fell below $200 in May 2002, and subsequently has sold more than 120 million units as of its seventh anniversary in October. Nintendo’s ill-fated last-generation console, the GameCube, was originally listed at $199 when it first went on sale in November 2001, though that price was cut to $150 by May 2002.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

FreeWRL VRML/X3D Viewer 1.19.9
VRML and X3D viewer for OS X, including Safari Plugin.

A Chat With the Voice of Mario
An anonymous reader writes “CNETTV.co.uk has up a video interview with Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario. Charles talks about flying out to Japan to record five games, including Super Mario Galaxy, and about his gaming experiences pre-Mario, which were made up of Pong, Pac-Man and Tank. The most interesting part of the video has to be when Charles discusses how he came up with the voice of Mario, which didn’t exactly start off sounding like the Mario we know and love today.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Yahoo Adds Flash to Widget Platform
Yahoo upgrades its Yahoo Widgets platform that accommodates Adobe’s Flash multimedia display technology.

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