Although it's been predicted that Sony would have to lower the price of its new PlayStation3 game console to reap the benefit of mass adoption, the company may have to do that way before it was ever planned.
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.
Ofcourse.Sony's movie and electronic busineses are makin loads of cash
Before I get accused of being a sony fanboy ... I proudly own both the 360 and PS3 and like them both.
Now ... to this article. Who is Brian White and why should I care about his opinion/blog and why is this article making it to N4G? Is he Micheal Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities? If not, his opinion makes no difference.
Concerning his blog, its absolute nonsense about his point of the 4-to-1 and 5-to-1 sell ratio of Wii versus PS3. Different price points, different marketing demographics, different audience on who Sony caters to versus who Nintendo focuses on. Of course they are going to sell 4-to-1 or 5-to-1 or heck 10-to-1 if they are focuses on a large demographic. They should be selling these numbers!!!
What Sony needs to do ...
1. Drop PS3 price for both SKU(s) to 399.99 20GB or 499.99 60GB and focuse on software sales (increase softwaare attach ratio). if not a $100 decrease ... then $50. Any drop in price guarantees more systems sold even if its marginal. The key is to get the attach ratio up.
2. Deliver at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) before the Euro launch. X-mas 07 is critical for next gen systems so setup for success early. Also, time to stop looking at Europe as a third rate video game region. Just look at the success of the Nintendo DS.
3. Keep pushing Blu Ray. As much as you all curse Sony for pushing this format onto the PS3, its working. Blu Ray is Sony's Messiah at this point (from an article I read the other day). Stablize the production of this format and push it's positives(space, support, etc) (In case you are wondering ... I also own HD DVD but see Blu Ray as the future)
different marketing demographics...?
I guess it's kind of true but not really. Wii is marketing towards gamers and non-gamers while ps3 is marketing towards gamers. So it's the same just Wii has that extra non-gamer also.
Price point.. that's not really an issue it's still a game console it's not Nintendo's fault that they have a cheaper console it's just how it worked out. Just like 360 has a cheaper console than ps3 too.
A 50 dollar drop in price will NOT do anything other than make people laugh at it. GDC I think Sony will own that for sure ^^. The 3rd point yes they will most surely push Blue-ray without question.
Good post I liked it just can't help but point out that Nintendo and Sony are targeting the same people just Nintendo is also targeting others and if price is an issue well then PS3 should not of come with all them bells and whistles
Get rid of the blue ray and make it a video games system just like the 360...do a 200 USB blue ray additional just like Microsoft then maybe...just maybe, you too could have an install base of 10 million consoles...until then, I will continue to see them on the shelves.
The PS3's Blu-ray drive only costs $100 to manufacture. It's actually the motherboard that's costing them a lot of money ($500). You can thank the new XDR RAM, FlexI/O, HDMI, and bunch of other inputs/outputs for that.