You’d think that being $50 cheaper than a Wii now would boost Microsoft’s expectations and hopes for its system’s success sky high. Apparently not, as Microsoft’s Senior Vice President of Interactive Enterainment Business, Don Mattrick, told BusinessWeek:

“I’m not at a point where I can say we’re going to beat Nintendo,” Mattrick said, followed closely by a big BUT “We will sell more consoles this generation than Sony.”

Settling for second place? Might it just be a clever rouse to lower expectations and be pleasantly surprised if the system takes over Nintendo’s current lead? While it seems unlikely…who knows what kind of damage the $199 Xbox 360 Arcade unit will do when holiday shoppers this year can’t find themselves a Wii of their own.

Via BusinessWeek

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Chris Kohler, over at Wired.com, chatted up the PlayStation Network’s Senior Director, Susan Panico, recently who said that the PS3’s social networking app will be available by the end of the year as an “open, working beta.”

Panico goes on to say that the “rollout will be similar to Gmail,” which is still in beta, as many news outlets have pointed out. It seems that the Senior Director was alluding to the fact that Gmail is fully functional, though, even in its “beta” stage. Gamers should, presumably, expect a working product when they fire up Home when its released later this year with incremental updates and changes as the beta continues.

Via Wired.com

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