By now, everyone who is a fan of the PlayStation 3 knows Sony's confident prognosis of 11 million PS3 units sold by the end of their fiscal year. What comes as a surprise is that SCE's chief executive told the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper a while ago that PlayStation 3 "is starting afresh as a console to play games with." Say wha...?

So only now is Sony interested in the gaming part with the PS3, right...? Is that what they want us to understand? Does it resemble this scenario for instance? A bunch of guys playing basketball, everyone shows off their moves, slam-dunkin' and grabbing the rim with their teeth, while the guy who thinks he's special says to himself: "I'm a do that a bit later, alone, to stand out of the crowd, he he!" Eh...

Sony Computer Entertainment's chief executive, says that the company is confident in fulfilling that goal, "despite stiff competition from Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360. According to Yahoo News, the man's exact statement regarding the new focus with the PlayStation 3, sounds a little something like this: "The PlayStation3 'is starting afresh as a console to play games with. Although pricing strategy is important, now we would like to put our strength in the number of software games,'" he said.

Sure enough, the PlayStation 3 currently is just a big-ass playback machine, given that just a handful of games have launched for it in more than a year. What's interesting here is that Sony is finally admitting yes, it is just a heavy DVD player we've launched in November 2006 in Japan. Now that sales have tripled in The States, it is safe to say that the 11 million landmark doesn't sound like such a long shot anymore and that we can focus on delivering games for once - Not an actual Sony statement, just in case you were thinking to use it as a quote.

Kazuo Hirai was noted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry