Yes, I agree with that, the Japanese are almost always the ones that innovate gaming the most. And, it is a great country for some of the greatest games of all time. I mean, Japan gave me pretty much EVERY arcade & 8 & 16bit classic I enjoyed in the 80's & 90s, like Galaga, Pacman, Double Dragon, Dragon Ninja, Sonic, Mario, Duck Hunt, Final Fight, 2 Crude Dude's, SF2, Super Metroid, Castlevania, Midnight Resistance, Ghosts'n'Goblins, Ghouls'n'ghosts, Contr...
Yep, the American consumers whinged about price with PS3...The thing was ONLY $599 for the top of line 60gig model & $499 for 20gig.
It's a one off purchase, for christs sake, what the hell do people want???? Sony to give them a machine, out of the goodness of there heart? I mean, Sony gave Americans & Japanese the low price, so low in fact that it was rumored they were losing, at least, $250 per console, when it 1st launched.
I'll never get over the amou...
Lets just enjoy what will be a awesome machine. I mean the damn thing was heavily influenced by many great developers & custom built to make developers jobs less miserable than PS2 & PS3's less developer friendly architecture.
So, it seems, us PS4 owners (& I will be one unless a) the world ends, b) Sony go broke halfway through production, or c) Sony's machine goes horribly wrong & releases as 2 PS2's crazy glued & sticky taped together, to make PS2x...
PS4 will be a beast, 8gigs of memory as opposed to PS3's 256mbs.....and just the newer tech in every department has me excited for console gamings future. I mean Watchdogs will be a 1st gen title for PS4.....The game looks f%$king unbelievable, & that is unanimous as evidenced at E3 2012, as the whole collective gaming media & gaming community ignored Nintendo's...ahum....cough cough, next gen...cough cough lol cough, console.
Wii-U was non-existent & got faded ...
I can never find the G-Spot....so if I can't find it with my intense 23 second tacdicks, then obviously it doesn't exist.
In other news, Sony is "Teh sukk, & tha PS4 is gonna phail, just like the PS1, PS2, PSP, PS3 & PSVita have ALL failed before it, I know all this, as I am the armpitamy of "KOOL", & putting sh!t on Sony makes me the "KOOLEST" nerd at skool. My granny tells me, every morning when she comes down to my room in he...
Fingers crossed Insomniacs, I will buy Fuse if it is good, & I hope I am not alone on this....but if all goes pearshaped, as it often does, especially in cases like this where a studio goes from exclusitivty to multiplat, or switches exclusitivity to another company, as seen with Rare, Bizarre Creations, Oddworld Inhabants, to mention a few of the big, important ones. Good luck to Insomniac, & I will be the 1st to support them, if they can manage to turn things around (quality wise),...
This game has no hope of selling I'm afraid. The name is crap, & it changed from a far better, but far from great title (Overstrike, or something similar).
Unfortunately, gamers failed Insomniac on PS3, so 10's of millions of PS3 owners ignored Insomniac's last hurrah on PS3 in Resistance 3, which was undeserved, as the game was purely brilliant & by far THE BEST in the series, & one of the best fps's still going around...The game was great, weapons aweso...
If you name your game smartly, then market it smartly & most importantly, make a truly great, artistic, fun, unusual, innovative game, then I believe the chances of it selling really well, are multiplied massively. Never really saw many, most times ANY, advertising for every game I have listed, as well as games like Okami (that killed Clover), Psychonauts, BG&E, Godhand, Ico, SOTC, etc, etc...as well as games like Resistance 3 (that Sony should have marketed the living sh!t out of alo...
So, with that said, the fact that many games that are awesome, but ultimately are slaughtered at the cash register are getting the age old, "judging a book by it's cover" syndrome.....Now, what I mean by that is that a games name is VERY important & games like Ico, Shadow Of The Collosis, Psychonauts, Godhand, Beyond Good & Evil, Starhawk, & many others are almost up sh#t creek without a paddle as soon as they are named these obscure, meaningless, and/or totally bonk...
Sony kick a$$ at doing new things. I care not for haters of Sony, but they deserve props for still bothering with awesome studios like Team Ico, that although made 2 of THE BEST PS2 games, & in fact, 2 OF THE best games in the history of gaming, suffered at the register, as most gamers didn't bother, until it was too late. I mean, BOTH these awesome Team Ico games were so great, that I can't see how any video gamer could ignore these games, in fact, Ico was like a new age Mario in...
A comeback for Resident Evil would be awesome, but Cashcom would ruin it somehow, by making us pay for what is already on the disk, so we would be charged for dlc that would allow us to move & shoot, & another dlc for $10 would be to allow zombie exploding heads with shotgun, then maybe $5 for new guns, or $6.95 for shoes that make you run faster, or $5.25 for a shoulder holster that allows quicker drawing of your pistol.....these are ridiculous, but highly believable things that Crap...
So, that said, until these games start declining in quality is noticeable amounts, or the awesomely fun gameplay starts losing it's edge & getting stale, I really see no reason to change anything. Just look at the recent news of Dead Space 3's cancellation for evidence of what happens when you try changing a formula that is already a great success.....kaboom, nobody buys your games no more, as you have taken out the heart & soul of the game. That's why the new DmC is so gr...
God Of War may need a refreshing type change next gen.....maybe.....But I still love these damn games & they are THE BEST hack'n'slash/adventure game since, well.....ever actually...Best story, best action & set pieces, best controls, best characters (especially Kratos, who goes totally against the good looking stereotypes usually associated with games), just all round best production of this genre of game that has ever existed. Heavenly Sword was a good diversion/distraction...
Obviously people that write articles like this trash, no nothing about early adopters & there gaming tastes, as people like myself that buy consoles on launch are more happy with a Resistance over a COD, I much prefer to have a Motorstorm over a NFS, or such, & that is not because I don't like these other franchises (in fact, I love what Criterion have done with NFS), but I love these new IP's from trusted developers such as Evolution, Media Molecule, Insomniac, etc, etc.........
In other news, another uneducated, dumba$$ makes a article on N4G's that is anti Sony, anti PS & anti any future products from Sony.
The thing you don't get, is that PS4 will launch with the usual casual friendly, sequelitus crap that so many supposed gamers demand....I mean, Ass Creed 4 is already announced & will likely be ready "right in time for Xmas", how convenient Hactivision.... Then EA will surely have a Madden, Fifa & maybe (I actually hope), a...
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No mate, I don't think any gamers wanted EA & Dead Space to fail, as we love our games.....But fact is, we are the consumers, and as the ones with the money to buy these games, we hold the power to determine what should & shouldn't fail, & another horrible fact is that games that are truly awesome, artistically beautiful, games like Okami, BG&E, Ico, SOTC, Godhand, Psychonauts, are the developers that suffer, that truly should be making sequels t...
RedSoaked hit the nail on the head....Bloody following in Capcom's horrid footsteps, by trading the best survival horror series (for there times/gen., respectively), to go the big dumbed down action route (like we don't have enough of them).
Fools went gaga for RE4 when it appeared on GC (then eventually PS2, & now HD on everything like a willing spread eagled, crack, heroin & boozed up whore)......I couldn't believe what the scores & kafuffle that ensued whe...
Oh, it's not that bad...The game is serviceable & has plenty of fan service, it just goes to show that these developers aren't the bees knees that everyone thought they were. There fans laid most of the blame for Duke Nukem, on the development team that started it, but we all know they were responsible for the game as soon as they took it over, so Gearbox were the ones responsible (now personally I have Duke on PS3, & although nowhere near earth shattering, I enjoyed the thi...
They really should have just thrown a phone into it, & marketed it as a handheld system, with the added benefit of a mobile phone, rather than the other way round, like all the phones do.
I would prefer a machine built as a handheld 1st, then having a phone included. I mean, I am one of the few who purchased the Playstation phone over an I-phone or any of the other smartphones available.....and the fact is, it is an awesome little phone, that has NO SUPPORT....I mean, the PS pad ...
Anyway, I will be getting a PS4 on launch, & I really hope that it sells massively, straight away in Japan, & that causes in influx in Japanese developers making homegrown games in abundance, & then I truly pray, they convert them to PAL for us, as I miss that Japanese flare in games. I mean, there really hasn't been very many Japanese developed games this gen. & I've felt that & it stings, & if it keeps declining at this rate, we are only gonna be left with 5...