Gaming Irresponsibly's Callum writes: As all console manufacturers know without the people who develop the games your console is worth nothing. What’s the point of spending hundreds of dollars on a console that has no games? But how can you ensure that you have a nice big variety available for all to play? I would say that it’s the smaller developers who are going to cause a big sensation in the coming years.
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.
Start making the consoles software open-sourced. Then we will see a baloon effect in terms of content. As we are with Android devices.
microsoft has xna that anyone can use, build a game and have it published on the 360.
so point microsoft.
I thought the article is about Community games not hacking, What does this have to do with Geohot Hobbit in the picture
Dumb article there is no comparison to be made between the PS3 being hacked to enable piracy and the stuff people are doing with the kinect. Sony have done much more to support user generated content in games such as UT3, LBP, modnation racers and infamous 2 than is mentioned in this article
I disagree with this article however I think it depends on how you define community. To me the "community" is the people who get behind your product who you know will support you. In this department Sony wins because they always have the core gamers in mind whenever they make something new. Their approach to motion control shows this with them spending more time focusing on getting motion control support for their core exclusives than making a bunch of family friendly casual stuff.
I'm sure some small developers will create a few games which will sell really well on consoles and really be a hit however, I think they will be few and far between. I bought a console to play state of the art games (for consoles anyway) and if I want to play stuff like angry birds, I'll do so on my phone.
Ever since buying a ps3 and now owning a xbox 360, ps3 and a PC, I really don't have enough time to think about smaller games when I'm at home. That's why I will just get them for my phone for when I got 15 minutes waiting for friends to show up or the bus or something.