Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison hits on the big issues within the Playstation business in this extensive Next-Gen interview.
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.
WTF happend?, I don't know about Sony's TGS but MSFT's content sucked. No content no info no nothing I hope we'll see content flood in after Halo gets out of the media way its sucking the life out of the industry's flow.
"There were a lot of Western-developed games that were in the montage during Kaz’ keynote. As the industry becomes truly global, do you think the Japanese-flavored games from Japanese developers are losing their relevance at all?".
????Hmmmm...Reading Phils reply to the quote above, Somebody should tell Phill the Japanese are having trouble adjusting; with only a few understanding how to please both East and West and not blinded by pride.
Don't attack me I have almost every single Sony fanboy or rabid hater on ignor many I blocked in Halo 3 threads today people are getting out of hand due to Sony's lackluster performance fanboys venting on MSFT and fans.
A good game is a good game?, my ass the Japanese will never embrace what sells well in the west, the same goes for some of their wack sh*t selling well over here(have to mix the styles to sell outside niche markets).
Remember do not attack I can't see you.
well i think Japaneses game are great just look at final fantasy or kingdom heart, but to what phil harrison saying, i think sony should just lower the ps3 price to $399.99 by taking out everything but the wifi, hdd and the blu-ray that all we need, get better game out the door, and remember is the gamer who buy ps3 not every day people. don't get me wrong i owe a ps3 but i think sony forget us,they keep saying there listening to what the gamer want but i don't think there hearing us. this is all we want, and yes i know some of you are going to say we have game coming but when next year!!! at lest the wait almost over soon we have good game starting next month and we owe 2008 with our line up!!!
i never seen advertisements for the blu-ray holdng 50gb and i see a lot of tv lol. but i have seen the baby one and to tell you the true it scary the s@#t out of me lol, then need to stop that s#$t and just do one showing off the game,the blu-ray,the 6axis,and how it hold 50gb stiff like that. not carp that a scary people like with the baby crying or ball flowing wtf,that make people not buy it.
Who cares about LO WTF does that have to do with MSft and the TGS show in general sucking?. no one cares about CGI packed canned animation filled titles on more than one disc they never have.