Figboy of Select/Start writes in a recent informative article about just this topic
"Over the past three years, we've seen what used to be a rather amicable ritual known as the "Console War", degenerate into a series of arguments fueled by review scores, sales data, back-biting, spite, sour grapes, and pretty much everything but a little thing called common sense and reasoning. You expect the fanboys to behave this way; it's in their nature, they're fanboys. Thing is, even the gaming media themselves have gotten swept up in this vitriol spewing debacle that is the current state of the "Console War."
One console over all others has been on the receiving end of so much of that media and gamer hate and bias, that it's no wonder when its sales numbers fail to match up to its nearest competition, let alone its predecessor! That console is, of course, the Playstation 3."
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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.
S2Killinit
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.
Sure it will get you hits
hits the nail on the head,360 has had so many passes from faulty hardware to broken games gettin ridicously high scores when will it end and people just be true honest gamers?
This site will get 50 people from N4G to visit it. Half of you aren't even reading it, but its saying the reality. There is no spin here. But as with newspapers, fabrications & truth stretching sells more papers than reporting that "well, there was really no news today"
Every point is true. People are still mad at sony for lying about kz2, in the face of KILLZONE2: The worlds most advanced gaming engine known to man, people would rather ignore that. And complain about the crouch button. And GG still has to mention the CGI trailer when interviewing.
Its too bad that more blogs dont dive into the history of the PS3 over its lifetime, and directly compared to the 360, its done well all-things-considered.
But yeah, enjoy this one guys.. but this is probably where it ends. The media has a hardon for the PS3 failing. Nothing you say or do is going to change this until SONY themselves actually decide to step up and speak for themselves, and start pointing these things out themselves. The Media is definitely not working in Sony's favor folks. But who's fault is that?
Definitely a well thought out article. The ps3 has been a laughing stock even before it saw it's release and the hate is still strong despite the fact that Sony and the ps3 have achieved alot since it's launch day. The 360 has gotten a ridiculous amount of passes when it come to hardware failure etc..etc but despite this fact the 360 has seen nothing but praise.
What sales whores refuse to take in is that in the same time frame the ps3 has sold more than the 360 in it's two years on the market. This of cause is not seen by the many American FUD filled articles. The days of Sony not having any games and 2007 arguments are long gone. The ps3 2009 line up is astonishing and PSN and HOME will continue to grow as will the PSN community.
Third party support is stronger than ever and will eventual stay that way the rest of this gen. Honestly i'm expecting to get another 8 years of unprecedented gaming entertainment from Sony and my ps3. Anyone who still doubts that the future is bright for the ps3 is in serious denial. I welcome all consoles and gaming platforms in general be cause without the competition, god knows what type of scummery these corporations will be dealing in.