{"id":277,"date":"2006-05-24T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2006-05-24T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T18:20:00","slug":"id-like-to-thank-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/id-like-to-thank-sony\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d like to thank Sony&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/newsitem.php?id=1053\">this item<\/a> over at the MCV site, it seems to me that Sony are unconsciously helping me to achieve my goal of selling my games directly to the public.  Not content with putting the price of the PS3 at a point that will discourage general sales of the console, they plan to take away one of the only other incentives to game players who have limited budgets.  For some of these gamers, selling their older titles is the only way of affording the newer ones.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this goes to show what I&#8217;ve felt for a long time &#8211; that the big companies within the games industry are increasingly out of touch with the gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just read this item over at the MCV site, it seems to me that Sony are unconsciously helping me to achieve my goal of selling my games directly to the public. Not content with putting the price of the PS3 at a point that will discourage general sales of the console, they plan to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/id-like-to-thank-sony\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank Sony&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}