In the "obvious" column, Meida Molecule's Alex Evans and analyst Mike Hickey talk about what is needed for the PS3 to succeed. His answer? Price cut.
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The knell for PlayStation 3 price cuts is getting louder. Both Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey and Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans -- whose LittleBigPlanet has been a major driver for the platform -- feel the price of Sony's console should go down soon.
Talking to Gamasutra as part of an in-depth feature interview, Media Molecule's Evans says he has "absolutely no regrets" in developing LittleBigPlanet as a PS3 exclusive.
"A lot of people say, 'You've missed out on X million install base if you'd gone here or here or Wii or whatever,'" says Evans. "To be honest, yes."
But he says the star treatment from Sony made it all worth it: "It's the fact that Sony put us up on a pedestal, that we were bigger fish in their kind of messy pod at the time. It meant that we wouldn't have succeeded as well without that nurturing."
