In today's final installment, Harrison shares his thoughts on which aspects of SCE's culture need to adapt and evolve, the prospects of sanctioned homebrew development for PlayStation Portable, and the company's plans for what it has dubbed the "entertainment tool."
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.
i hate you phil a lot you should just shut up and this website should stop posting anything about you, he should just live in a cave and never leave
This guy is a true professional. He knows how to make Sony fans happy. No matter how you look at is he has been up against allot for the past year. Mainly because people expected Sony to come out and smash the 360. Even though that did not happen he still knows what to say to keep Sony enthusiast in the right mood about the PS3.
I totally see why he is where he is at Sony. Even though he still has yet to say anything that grabs me as a reason to buy a PS3 personally, I do respect the fact that he is the perfect example of a company man. Now he and Sony need to push the software and prove that the PS3 is worth it for every one.
Which is to have blogs by major execs within SCE and beta-style roadmaps of where they plan to take software aspects of the PS3, such as future XMB functions, in order to get constant feedback from users. Having a quick link to something like that as soon as you log into your PS3 account would be great; having a quick-access page that listed every Firmware update and all of its features would be sweet too. He knows that Sony Computer Entertainment needs to be more open with its customers, and it's obvious that he's pushing for that as much as possible.
Amplitude is still one of my favorite games of all time, but with the PS2's online network it wasn't laid out very well, and not many people were ever on. With the new PSN out now, if they brought back a sequel and made it a downloadable title (with a demo of course), it would probably catch on like wildfire. Playing against other users and playing other people's remixes was always fun, so I'm hoping they bring that back. Hell, they should even do ranking systems for remixes, or even contests (and not just for this particular title).