For the past few weeks, Major Nelson, the Xbox Live Director of Programming, has been running a special segment on his podcasts regarding Sony's PlayStation 3. So what does one of the most well known figures in the industry think of his employer's main rival?
In regards to this week's podcast, fast forward to the 43rd minute mark in the MP3.
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.
Came on the Insomniac podcast last week to advertise this new segment in his show. He said it was a good thing for the fans to hear about what people in the industry think of each other, etc. But I've been listening to his podcasts for some time now and there is no real PS3 segment. Instead, they have a few minutes where they say "oh I got a PS3 the other day". Interestingly enough, you'd think they'd actually comment on the console and it's games.
Um, no.
Do they speak about the differences? Um, not exactly. Well they always refer to it as a "good Blu Ray player" and that's as far as it goes. Other than that, they usually criticise it, talk about how frustrating it was to install it with Major responding "No way" "What?!" "It was that frustrating? "You wanted to take it back didn't you?". And last week he talked about some multiplatform games, like TimeShift and says its coming out on the 360 and PC. He gets corrected and told it comes on the PS3 too and responds "yeah that too, when..? who knows lool" It's like fuel for fanboys.
And thats what it is. I was shocked by it, I expected that tone from the Xbox forums where you can expect that type of bias towards the 360 but what is the point of holding a segment, advertising that to PlayStation sources, and then only mocking the console and speaking in derogative terms about it?
If I was an Xbox owner only and listened to the Major's podcasts, I'd be laughing at PlayStation 3 owners. In fact, I wouldn't think the console had a decent game worth playing and its just a glorified movie player.
I have sent an email to the Major with the hope he reads that - suggesting that he should keep to his word and actually talk about the console. If he wants to talk about Blu Ray as opposed to the Xbox 360, then he should call it the Blu-Ray segment.
It's an insult to professionalism and Sony to hear this guy weekly bash the console under the blank statement that its "just a discussion of other platforms". Discussion my ass. Why not talk about Sony's price drop and how it could affect the market? Why not talk about their 1st party games? Hey I have an idea, why not actually have a discussion? I don't expect them to praise the damn thing but I do expect to hear some mature adult stuff from those in the industry.
No. All you want to talk about is how great Viva Pinata is and how "good a Blu Ray player" the PS3 is.
Is getting his paycheck each week from MS. How much GOOD do you really think he is going to give the PS3? GET REAL
you know what tells me a lot, the fact that he spent 2 hours trying to get his tv to recognize the ps3, the fact that the tv wasnt set up to the correct input the ps3 was connected to. Either that or the ps3 was already set up on a sd tv. I had that problem, going from a high def hdmi cable to the stardard and not seeing a pic, but you know what i did that took, me 5 minutes to figure out what was going on... read the trouble shooting booklet. easy peasy, these guys shouldnt even be talking about the ps3.
I couldn't find the specific time frame for where he referred to Timeshift's PS3 release date in his other podcast. I've listened to a couple podcasts and I tried to pinpoint that remark but each podcast is an hour and a half man. Sorry about that; just take my word for it.
looks like a child molester