Having run through the 10 things the PS3 does right, Part II of gameplayer's look at the current state of the PS3 now that it has had its first birthday takes a look at where the console has gone wrong.
"So like the little orphan in an epic RPG tasked with saving the world from next-gen mediocrity, the PS3 has the power within, but will it be awakened? These 10 'wrongs' have us wondering."
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.
I'll tell you one thing it does wrong (dunno if its in the article), but my ps3 often freezes and crashes on me. Its got slightly worse lately, sometimes when it freezes i the only way i can turn it off is from the switch on the back. I've installed my own 160gb HDD into it, so i dunno if thats why. Or it could be the user created themes for it. But there's nothing worse then playing warhawk, about to capture the flag...ps3's crashed. It doesn't happen often enough for me to call sony up or send in for repair but, its just annoying. It's about once every 3 or 4 days it happens
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gotta love that inbred who disagrees with my ps3 freezing, like he's in a better position to know about it then me
I am suprised that n4g allows an article to be reported 3 minutes after it has gone live. Clearly the reporter didn't even have time to read the article, so won what basis is it reported...
the price point was too high and there were almost no games @ release, that's why I didnt buy it in the first place. the 360 was more attractive at that time, although one has to admit that it was released 1 year earlier than the ps3. but you also have to admit, that sony did their best, cut the price and released some really nice games (Uncharted, R&C, R:FoM... to name a few). now it's the right time to buy a ps3, it will improve over time. i look forward to my ps3 on christmas and i also look forward to 2008.
10 things the Playstation does wrong......
1000 things the playstation does right.....
why do people always need to look at negatives?
Damage control... trying to break down the momenum the ps3 has now after it stomped the wii and xbox 360 last month in sales.