Ryan shares his fear on Digital Distribution using PSN as an example. What happens when the service gets shut off? What happens to your digital library of games?
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
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.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
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live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
Physical all day everyday.
The only digital games i get are from PS plus. Nothing beats having a physical copy of your purchase to do with as you please.
"Remember the PSN network outage that happened a few years ago and it took about a month to get everything working again? Some people couldn’t play their games because their accounts weren’t being authenticated. I use this example again because I’m a member of PSN. Some games that you purchase might require DRM. This means that it needs to authenticate itself each time you play. What happens if you purchase a game, install it but can’t play it because your game can’t authenticate to the needed server? You’re stuck"
That's not how It works, if you downloaded something already, it's already activated, it does it right before it downloads, and that I belives is if ur acocunt isn't activated. So regardless, unless people went and deactivated their accounts (doubt there were even that many, if not a few), their digital games still worked perfctly fine.
Nonetheless though, it's still A valid point. I will never go full digital as long as physiclal copies and pricing of digital exists.
I am starting to find having a digital copy at ready right on the device or manageable from PC to be very handy. I share concerns like others over entirely cloud based content, but I am finding the convenience when it is working positive.
If my disk breaks, I am toast. If my internet or service goes down, it won't be forever and possible to get something out of it.
I really don't care if something happens to my digital library. I play a game until I get sick of it then move on. If I can't play a current game in 6 years it's no problem to me. There are already so many games I want to play that I can't imagine going back to play older stuff or play a second time. I am not a collector, I have no use for last gen systems once a new one comes out, in fact I'm looking to get rid of my ps3
I'm not keen on it as well. I buy something from time to time, but I rely on physical more.