"Semi official" Sony UK blog ThreeSpeech has fought its way past Sony's new, useful US blog and back into the headlines by saying controversial things about Microsoft's PR department and US bloggers on its first podcast.
"If you ask most people they say Sony PR is awful. Well Sony PR is straight to the point....Whereas with Microsoft, all their PR is very like trying to be your best mate, and I don't like it, it's very grimy."
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.
agree with this, MS is always trying to dance around stuff, "Ya know, things break!" they act like the buyers are stupid to shovel they dish them.
Come to think of it the most part they are right about that, people just keep replacing their consoles over, over, and over again, sad really.
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Its a shame that 3speech had to resort to these sort of remarks.
Major Nelson does a great job communicating information to xbox users as well as creating a great podcast. He has discussed the whole 'blogcast' name a number of times and his reasoning behind calling it that.
I am glad that Sony has distanced themselves from the comments.
Now that Sony has their own blog, why do they need 3speech?
Who is the only company to have the worst marketing ads ever? Ones that make no sense and have even insulted certain races? That would be SONY.
Which company advertises only games and is straight to the point showcasing games only? Microsoft.
To add insult to injury which console is no.1 and has the most games and best online and well best everything despite certain problems?
XBOX 360.
I have to say I was surprised at these comments considering Sony's history of PR which generally includes lieing about what their consoles can do...I would hardly call that "straight to the point".
Microsoft's PR in general is better I would say, but not by much
lol so hypocritical, they bash another company for being slimy and all this, and then they just shoot their month off the whole time.
Its ok we all know Sony is great at copying what other companies do and then calling it their own. Next time talk about the PS3 and nothing else, Warhwak Vs Gears of War is STUPID, they are 2 completely different games, Halo 3 Vs Haze is a fair fight and one that Haze will loose