Michael Bunning of Gamer 2.0's SmashPad blog writes:
"Well, the truth is, Sony isn't losing so absolutely. For a start, Sony is denying that there's going to be any more major restructuring. Of course, Free Radical was insisting that everything was hunky-dory days before it went under, so you can't believe every press release you read. But even discounting Sony's denials, there's plenty of good news for SCE, if you go looking for it. The Christmas sales figures, for a start. Sony's console sales were up 130% over Christmas, and 40% for the calendar year. Couple that with SCEE's president David Reeves's comment that the PS3 is on-target to make a profit in 2009, and things aren't looking too bad."
UPDATE: This is not a duplicate story. It appears to be a response to another story that has appeared on N4G, but is a completely new story.
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.
They are going to stay right where they are from a business standpoint. People, like myself that don't have a PS3, are just waiting for the after Christmas sale or maybe the Presidents Day Sale. I just hope Sony adds backwards compatibility back into the PS3 before the sale. A great move would be to discount the existing PS3s, Drop the PS2 line, and come out with a new PS3 SKU that has the backwards compatibility built in. Sony also needs more advertising in the US. I haven't seen a single commercial since last year where they were pushing LBP.
A very good look at the current situation with the PS3 and the ridiculousness of proclamations that the system will "die" or is on the brink of dying. Plus, even if Sony did cut back staff and so forth, is that really surprising? It'd be shocking to see any company not cut back resources in today's economy.
@hitthegspot: Actually there are LBP commercials and I've seen them often. The only thing is they aren't very good. If I didn't know what LBP was, I would would still have no idea what it was after watching it.
What's with the attacks on this post in the reports section? The story has statistical backing and is merited. @SeanScythe in the reports: I've seen this site on Kotaku a few times actually.
Anyway, I gotta admit, I though the PS3's situation was more perilous than it actually is.
From the article:
"While it’s true that the PS3 is installed in less homes than the Wii or the Xbox 360, if you look at global year-on-year sales, the PS3 wasn’t too far behind the 360 in 2008. Microsoft sold just over 11 million consoles, and Sony sold 10,347,225 PlayStation 3’s. "
Of course it seems there are vgchartz, I haven't noticed vgchartz being THAT off in the past so it could be a good indicator.
It's only uneducated Teenagers that would make a claim such as "Ps3 is dead"
The very notion that the PS3 is dying is kind of dumb by pure common sense. Sony as a company has a lot of good things going for it. The PS3 is still competitive and sales have almost been even with the 360 as the article points out. Blu-ray is going to cause them to bank, and if they can get people to believe their HDTV's go perfectly with Blu-ray because they're both Sony tech's, then that could help their overall company health.
They'll be fine.