January 27, 2010 - While 2009 was a great year for the PlayStation 3, 2010 is practically guaranteed to be its biggest yet. A simple look at the games library tells you that this'll be a banner year for the system. From God of War III to Gran Turismo 5 to The Last Guardian to Heavy Rain, the first-party lineup for this year is nothing short of incredible, but that's only the start of it. When you start adding in the third-party titles like Final Fantasy XIII, Max Payne 3, BioShock 2 and countless others, well, you should get started on some loan paperwork right now because your bank account will be hurting by year's end.
by IGN Staff - 1/27/2010
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.
And it's almost February! :P
I'm starting the year off with Bad Company 2. I am not interested in picking up any of the big PS3 titles this year shockingly enough.
Both Heavy Rain and God of War 3 are too short for my liking. Believe me, I want them, but I can't drop $70 bones for something that I can just rent... but I also like owning my games so I'll likely wait for massive price drops meaning I'll probably purchase them early 2011.
I'm not a racing fan so GT5 is unlikely, though I am open to it.
Mod Nation Racers seems to be one of the more forgotten PS3 games this year. After playing the beta I think it's nice, but I am still uncertain with this game. It is nowhere near LBP of course, and I find the mechanics to be a little too simple, but what the hell else should I expect from a kart racing game?
I am likely purchasing this game though-- split screen racing is actually one of my selling points.
I am also likely picking up Final Fantasy 13 though it will be admittedly the first FF game I own (but not played).
White Knight Chronicles is also seeming likely but I wish Level 5 just made Dark Cloud 3 instead. I'm not appealed by the premises of WKC at all. A boy that transforms into a giant knight? Dark Cloud games were the greatest thing on the PS2.
The Last Guardian is an insta-buy! I keep forgetting about this game and I feel like punching myself everytime I do.
On the 360 side of things I am dying and very anticipated for Halo Reach. Easily the biggest game for Bungie since #3 and easily the most anticipated game of 2010.
I may end up just backtracking and picking up games I've missed: inFamous, Valkyria Chronicles, etc. I need to still play those games-- also, Demon's Souls is still in my PS3.
Bioshock is a game I still need to play, and I do plan on playing #2 too.
As for Agent, I want to hear more news on it first, but R* are gods so that may end up being a purchase.
Too much! Looks like Sony is continuing on it's roll from 2009 into 2010.. Gotta give it up to Sony for their what seems like limitless exclusives coming to their system to mix in with all those multiplats.
My poor wallet.
Damn you sony.
If Sony wanted our money all along, they should of just done this in the first place. (That was meant to be a joke against Sony's bad marketing till last year, but...whatever. Not important.)
There's bound to be some games on this list that will be looked over just for the sheer amount of games that are coming out.
I've recently discovered extra money that I can spend, and am deciding between Star Ocean 4 and WKC (you may have noticed my forum posting). And I'm leaning towards Star Ocean. Something about it suits my taste, and I'm not appealed to WKC. Even though I'm renting WKC to try it out.
Final Fantasy XIII, Star Ocean The Last Hope International, Heavy Rain, God Of War 3. Those are my choices in the first 3 months. Nothing too shabby, eh?