Justin Kemppainen, Minnesota Games Examiner, writes:
Arguably the PS3 has taken more crap this generation than any other console. Complaints of various shapes and sizes, criticisms by those who use the system and those that simply want to make their own console look better have been coming up since the big black monolith came out.
Some of these have been at least a little legitimate; lack of solid exclusives, cutting the backwards compatibility, working too hard on the home entertainment center, blah, blah, blah. Yet there is one that keeps coming up. One that keeps coming up. For the life of me, I don't understand how people could consider this a legitimate criticism.
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.
Former Naughty Dog artist Gabriel Betancourt explains why the "sweet spot" for game teams is under 200 people and how AAA "factories" kill creativity.
There’s definitely some truth to this. When teams get too large, coordination starts to outweigh creativity—layers of approval, risk aversion, and tight deadlines can turn bold ideas into “safe” ones. Keeping a team under ~200 people sounds ideal for maintaining clear communication and a shared vision. That said, massive AAA projects also come with huge technical demands and expectations, so scaling up isn’t always avoidable. The real challenge is figuring out how to keep that small-team creativity alive inside big studio structures.
More than that, it's logistically untenable. Inevitably, when teams get too large, how do you keep tabs on accountability? I suspect this massive team size is a consequence of the perfectionism streak Naughty Dog has.
I wish we could have so many people working on something and it turns out great because I'm all for collaboration in spirit - the problem is too many people as part of the larger team and smaller units. Suppose for example that you have too many people in the art department; you will very often come up against fiercely competing visions for how things should look. That competitive vision will cause friction between team members, team doesn't work as a unit, the back and forth can further delay parts that the other departments are waiting for, etc etc.
A 200-person team says, to me, that we need to scale back game development. Even if it means we go back to PS2 era costs and scale, why not? Those games are still great fun, the budgets were in check, and you could literally break the 200-man team into like 10 20-man teams working on different projects.
not a big problem but then why ps3 gamers act like getting up to change a disc every 10 hours is a huge inconvenience.
I mean what do you do when you want to change games on your ps3 ???
Yeah I read the article :And I think Its more inconvenient to wait 10 minutes rather than taking 10 seconds to swap a disc every 10 hours cuz PS3 or 360 you WILL get up to change games.
What i mean is its no big problem.
A stupid PS3 criticism to me is about Killzone 2........People always talk about Killzone 2 only looks AMAZING because it took 3 1/2 years and 30 million dollars. Which is ridiculous because.....
Did you know Halo3 was in development for 3 years aswell and cost 30 million to make, plus 30 million for advertising. But you`ll rarely hear about that.
People also critize the hype behind Killzone2 and how it couldn`t live up to it, again...........do you have any idea how much hype was behind Halo3. Seriously.
It just goes to show you quick people are to criticize the PS3.
its because im black.lol
I'm not bothered by game installs, if theres a point that I need more room on my HDD, I'll delete them, simple as that or get a bigger HDD, if I feel its neccercary, (The PSN games are more likely for me to do this).
Like the guy says, its much better than installing a PC game, we need to type no codes, swap disc like I had to with Doom3 and numberous others. Not a problem.
PS3 has been plagued by many illegitimate complaints. It's all a part of the media's hatred for all things PS3 that used to exest. They seem to be coming around now however.