NEW YORK: A lot of the news about Sony over the last year has been - as its Welsh-born chairman, Howard Stringer, might say - rather dreary....
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.
What's really keeping Sony alive are cameras + HD TV. My tvs and cameras are both from Sony. Only problem I had with the camera is the flash light popped and I called Sony and they wanted to charge me $180 to replace it. I asked them to send me a replacement ($40) and I did it myself. Sony's very expensive when it comes to getting anything fix. Make you have have extended warranty for stuff that you don't want to have to give your new born for.
Sony sole over 100 million consoles but I guess that dosent matter not counting the software sales and handheld sales...I guess that dosent matter also blu ray and the movies they make...bladstar you are an idiot I bet your going to see spiderman three ( thats a sony film boi)
What is this; a gaming website or a young republican's website. Wallstreet can below me. Whats going on with Lair?
Even though they've struggled, I've said that Sony--like MS--is one of the few companies capable of surviving lean times. Yes, the PS3 is definitely having "issues," and the short-term outlook shows more struggles to come before things (maybe) get better.
But Bravia TVS, cameras, and the film division continue to do well (I hear some say that Spider-Man 3 movie might be a little, y'know, successful). Those divisions are keeping Sony afloat even while the game division is deep in debt. (Kinda like MS' profits from Windows and software versus the losses coming from the entertainment division, largely due to the uninspiring Zune. That's one thing that Sony and MS have in common: an inability to compete with the iPod).
We're less than six months into the current three-console lineup, and it's way too early to tell how things will be in a year, or two years, or longer. Even if the PS3 continues to struggle, Sony has many other profitable divisions to shore revenues up until (if) the system begins to show profitability.
The only way to beat apple is to copy, modify, adpt - get some immediate experience this way.
Apple has mastered producing User-friendly, fashionalble, future looking, performance hardware and software. Learn from them.
So just copy, modify, adapt the iPod, iPone, iMac, macPro, macBook, miniMac, Mac OsX. The experience they get from this policy will eventually translate into domination of the market with Apple quality hardware.
I would just love to see PSP with touch screen - wich can also bring up a keyboard - and dual shock, 6 axis where you can use it as a Ps3 controller and/or play a Ps3 game entirely from the hand held. This idea came about by copying, modifying adapting Apple's iPone. See, it works.
And just remember, if Apple ever chose to enter the game console industry, there's no doubt they would pawn both Sony & Micro$oft - hands down. I'd guarantee they'd also use Mac OsX on their console. So Sony......turn Game OS into a full OS or develop your own sleek, fast, optimized Linux or Unix OS for pete's sake.
Copy, modify, adapt. It works. C'mon Sony. Do it.
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