Here's Dean's follow-up commentary on Jack Tretton's interview with him and Troy Wolverton.
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.
lots of things wrong here. sony got ut3 because microsoft didnt want mods, developers arent going to wii to much longer because the games arent being bought, and metal gear is a timed exclusive no matter what sony does its just buissness
that is sony must do all they can (and they can with cash) to keep MGS4 exclusive and FF franchise!
but am not worried as the guy who wrote the article about ps3 sales, i already see ps3 outselling the 360 with no big games and incomplete online community and hardware functionalities like full support for Xvid or in game XBL(am not sure if i put the right letters :)).
so no need to worry about ps3, and if MGS4 sells over 3 millions in the first month then it will most likely stay an exclusive!
Careful You are showing ............
ok for 1 third parties arent going to rush to the wii. beacause the great games that they want to make cant become reality because of the power the wii has. the 360 and PS3 have more power so there games can come to be wat they really want them to be. and should a developer say what a console should be no thats why they are making games and not game systems. let those companies deal with there own problems. Yes sony is in last place but with 08 coming hopfuly these titles will bring them back up to speed. Killzone 2, little big planet, GT5, GTA4, GoW3(rumor),RFOM2(rumor), DMC4. They have a ton of great titles and the 360 will have some too they always do. But with people getting sick of not finding a wii right now they are going to these other two companies and buying their products getting their install base up. Nintendo is shooting themselves in the foot for not having enough wii's in stock. Imagine how well they would be doing if wii's were available when ever you walked into a store.
Anyways theres my 1 cent.
anything from mercurynews.com is rife with anti-sony sentiment. wasn't it dean who got the $800 halo 3 schwag bag in order to bribe him for a good review score?
he said he was going to return the bag to ms...i bet its still in his office or in his kids' bedroom...