They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn. Sony better hope so. since Sony is still struggling to break even on the PS3, the seven-year-old PS2 remains by far the company's most successful console. That's certainly a testament to the PS2's capabilities and top-notch game library. But it's also an indictment of the PS3, and a painful reminder that Sony has, so far, managed to disregard every lesson it should have learned from its past two consoles.
Anyway, what's done is done.
Sony can't go back in time and unrelease the PS3 and wait another year to get the cost of the components down before putting the system on store shelves. And it can't reverse the migration of previously exclusive titles to other systems (notably the 360).
But the company does have two advantages heading into this year.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
LucasArts gave Jango Fett his own game in 2002, and it pulled Star Wars into a much dirtier, rougher, and more interesting corner of the galaxy.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Because all their lies will fail and people will realize that they believed in hype.
Quick statements of the day from me (former game developer).
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1. PS3's GPU holds multi platform games back. Cell will not help make graphics so much better because GFX-programming is single threaded, not parallel like Cell. So multiplatform games will always look better on XBOX. PS3 will have good games with great physics (LittleBigPlanet) but no with better GFX. Unified architecture of XBOX Xenos GPU is Nvidia 8800 level while PS3's RSX GFX is Nvidia last gen 7xxx series.
2. Sony know this. That is why they over hype and lie to their customers. But software sale shows us that customers didn't get fooled. More than expected amount of people buy PS3 for..for movies first and don't buy PS3 games.
3.SonyDefence forse is acting on this site and all over internet. That is a group of people that write great user reviews on SONY product all over internet. So be careful receiving information about SONY products. If product is bad SonyDefenceForce will make it look better than it is by posting reviews and their lying opinions at most popular internet sites.
LOL... one minute the PS3 is a success, the next its bombing...
eitherway, i dont think that Sony would mind their biggest compition being themselves.
the fact that sony is still very determined to support the ps2.. it does get in the way to usher the current userbase onto this gen. i'm pretty sure there are a lot of ps2 users wanting to make the transition but at the moment it isn't the right time for them because:
a) the price is still too steep
b) this gen is a little intimidating since it seems you need
an hdtv and 5.1 surround to get the full effect
c) the franchises that they loved on the ps2 aren't available yet or are available on other platforms.
the majority of the 120million ps2 owners WILL eventually make the transition to this current gen. but to which platform is still to be determined. but i can pretty much say that a lot of them will move on to get a ps3 if the IP's they love remain exclusives.
It's a fair enough article, a bit overly-critical and obviously US-centric, but does make a good point!
Keeping the PS2 buisness going for as long as they have, has hurt the PS3 early adoption levels. I rather suspect that having shown such support to the previous platform will pay dividends in the long run with the average consumer, who will trust the brand to be supportted for a while. This will likely show more when the price falls another level and the more casual audience of the PS2 will start to migrate to the newer platform.
@Imad. You are not, and never have been a developer, and that is blatently obvious from your purile inaccurate asertions and obvious bias. I AM a developer, and have been for 15 years - have worked for Sony, Microsoft, E.A and many many others. You are simply another hate filled troll my friend, so please don't play pretend games to try and give your fanboy lies some more credibility - its embaressing to see..
it is the GAMES!!!!! Im still holding on to my ps2, Im waiting on more varity of games. not everyone is hardcore gamer, so those of us not are waiting on companies to make different games to suit non-hardcore gamers as well. plus long as sony dont bring back b c its more undesirable to buy a ps3. not able to play your ps2 games on it. sony should have kept the 20 gb bc ps3. I believe most ps2 gamers will wait til the 80gb ps3 go down to 299.00 before making that move.