Sony doesn't have a lot of advertising money. Or money period. The exclusives don't sell enough. The free online service cost them several hundred million a year. They need to bring in more money and cut the things that don't make enough.
They really need to start charging something for that online service.
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Missed the articles on Sony's financial situation, huh.
There is a reason that Sony doesn't advertise much.
MasterCornholio, you're naive if you believe people weren't paid off by Sony and Toshiba. Do a little research and comment again. Here's a article from the New York Times talking about pay offs and "marketing campaigns"(also payoffs).
http://www.nytimes.com/2007...
Notice that part that says Paramount received part of 150 million in incentives. And tha...
gaffyh, I think you and other are too focused on gaming and not on the entire business. And also not applying real world business realities to Sony's current situation. I'm not saying Sony is doomed. But they are on the edge. Just like GM and Chrysler a few years ago.
Kaz himself said the company was in serious trouble if things didn't turn around soon. Considering he's the President of the company I will trust him on that. Sony not only has losses, they have...
Sony did pay studios to go Blu-ray exclusive. Toshiba was reported to have made offers of hundreds of millions to companies. Why would they turn down guaranteed money to go with Sony on a format that was far more expensive for the studios. They did because they got paid to. A Disney executive refused to deny a payoff in a conference. It cost hundreds of millions to switch to Blu-ray. All to sell a very small number of movies relative to DVD. Blu-ray is a very small market. Look up the revenue...
gaffyh,
It is a big deal because the tax credits were based on future revenue. If they think they aren't eligible for them anymore it is because they believe their revenue will be lower. And they can't just pay it off. If they were making money they would be having losses. They have lost money every year for the last four or five. Not sure how things work where you are, but in most countries people owing less than they make can't just pay off their bills. Sony als...
Enigma the main selling point to ME was that your decisions had an effect on the game. And they did for the first two. People died and there were things that you wouldn't see. Or things would happen because someone didn't die. I played through ME2 and the first time six people died. I replayed it and only one died because I made better choices. Again, all in line with the main selling point. But in three, some things just happened. You made decisions like in the past, but at the end, ...
Sorry about the misunderstanding. I meant to write $10-20. Not percent.
Premium space is sold. But games are a major driving force in creating traffic for stores like Best Buy. So I'm not sure how much they can demand from console makers. It's more like the console makers have the pull in that deal.
Of all of the products sold in those stores and advertised each week, games almost always get into the pages. Even when they aren't on sale. The bigg...
If you aren't going to make a ending that actually follows the spirit of the beginning then don't make a trilogy. Especially not a RPG. If the choices actually meant something and made a difference in the ending then there wouldn't be any real reason to complain. But they just threw some BS out there.
They could have done a completely scripted game and had that ending and it would have been fine. But to have so many variations and to come done to a couple of endin...
When Bioware was purchased by EA many gamers feared it would be turned into a cookie cutter operation. The ending of ME3 seems to indicated Bioware has been turned into a cookie cutter operation. It's the new Madden. But unlike Madden it was supposed to be a trilogy. And the only way for EA to continue to use the highly lucrative franchise is to keep the loyal fanbase happy. I don't buy many EA games because of the way they choose to do business. I believe the ending would have played...
Kaz said they expect to sell 12 million Vitas this year.. Hard to hit 12 million when they are selling that slowly. It is a very bad thing for Sony. If they have to drop the price it will create hundreds of millions less in revenue than they were expecting. And they already have problems with their stock. They didn't need that. They need to drop the price sooner rather than later and reduce cost.
Candy coat it any way you want. This IS a disaster. Sony has a ton of issues. And some of them are in gaming too. This started with the inclusion of Blu-ray in the PS3. No Blu-ray and Sony is still on top of gaming. That leads to more games sold. More consoles sold for a profit. More advertising money. Money to stay in deal with Samsung. Money to continue shrinking the die size of the chips in the PS3 to increase profits.
And it wouldn't hurt if they charged something fo...
MS has learned a lesson Sony should learn. Buying studios is a mistake. Follow what MS did with Epic. Buy into a particular game. Gears has made MS millions. And it did by them risking very little. Check with developers from time to time and look at what they are doing. If you see something promising you finance it for exclusivity. Or you pay for a multi-million dollar advertisement campaign like MS did with Gears 1.
MS paid for a ten million dollar advertising campaign and ...
MS annual reports say they made around 700 million on Gold subscriptions. But they make a lot more on other Live sales. DLC of all kinds generates a ton of money. CoD maps are a whole business unto themselves.
Retail wishes they got 25% of the console sales. Not even close. I worked at Best Buy and games and consoles provide very little income for the stores. they make their ,money off of the traffic they produce and volume. And accessories. Electronics are sold for much more than they are produced for. But not consoles. Best Buy used to get a couple of dollars per games and around ten to twenty per console.
That's why a kiosk for digital games would be better for stores than ...
Smoke Sony stopped developing the Cell years ago. IBM is the only company doing any further development. IBM has taken some elements of Cell and added it to their Power line.
Sony bought that factory back to make camera parts. Not Cell processors. Cell still belongs to all three companies.
http://www.gamespot.com/new...
Rumors have been going fo...
Articles that still bring up RRoD and think it applies to next gen are stupid. 2013 will be 8-9 years later. There is nothing rushed about that long a generation.
People can disagree all they want. I have facts to back up what I posted.
http://www.homemediamagazin...
US represents more than half of Blu-rays market. Pie chart on the front page each week shows that Blu-ray is a small percentage of the market. And digital copies of the magazine show that it always has been. Streaming is growing far faster than Blu-ray.
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I really don't understand the people that keep bringing up the 360 being rushed and somehow applying that to the next Xbox. MS announced that they had been working on the next Xbox before the 360 launched. Since '04. It's now '12 and the average console life cycle is usually 5 years but some think the next Xbox might be a rush job. 9 years is not rushed. RRoD was a really bad thing but get past the headlines. Or are some too big of a fan of one company that they stopped thinki...
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The Vita cost 169.00 for parts according to iSuppli. They would be in the red again if they dropped the price of the PS3 more than $50. Unless they do a die shrink. They need to focus on a shrink if they really want to make it ten years. Once next generation console come out, it will be hard to keep the price of the PS3 above $200 for the high end version.
But they do have to charge for online.
And the PS3 will never catch the 360...