Japanese mag surveys development community on PS3

In the latest issue of the Japanese magazine Ge-Maga, which is also the longest running magazine in Japan, an anonymous survey was held regarding developers takes on Sony's slammin' console. Since most of us can't read kanji very well, IGN did the honors of translating the stats and they are summarized below:

Price:

• 90.29% -- think it's too pricey
• 9.71% -- think it's juuuuuuust right

Two Hardware Models Approach:

• 56.31% disagree with it
• 39.32% agree with it
• 4.37% have no opinion

Launch Titles?

• 55.82% don't think they'll help sell PS3
• 39.32% say they're fine and dandy like sour candy
• 4.86% are unsure how the launch titles will help

E3 Impressions?

• 48.54% unchanged
• 32.52% are less confident
• 3.39% felt relieved
• 15.55% have no impression to give

Sales Goal of 6M units by March '07?

• 62.13% say no way
• 35.43% say yes way
• 2.44% say maybe

This may seem dismal news to the PS3 fan, but remember -- there's still the Tokyo Game Show in September. Hopefully PS3 can pull out a few surprises like Devil May Cry 4 or Resident Evil 5. Those would help on its launch, but in Japan at least, Sony's main competition will be the Wii.