First things first, Too Human was not in development for ten years. The concept was developed ten years ago. They didn't feel there was a system with the ability to do what they had in mind until this generation.
Now, do I believe the PS3 killed those studios. In a way yes. All of the people who like to blame everything on the economy are off. Some companies are suffering because of the economy, some are just bad companies. I read a post where compared Sony's and Microsoft's rest...
Well that says a lot. If he knows better but just rights what he thinks his boss wants to read, he is wasting people's time. He needs to write and educate their readers or he needs to stop pretending to be writing honest opinion. Things like that are why the mainstream press is as useless as fanboy blogs.
Companies that thought they were being smart and supported the PS3 exclusively early are going under. Companies like Square were smart enough to see the pitfalls and go multi-platform to keep from taking the type of financial hit that killed Factor 5 and Free Radical. Those two companies aren't the first and won't be the last to be killed off by PS3 exclusivity. PS3 fanboys should do less posting against the 360 and buy more games. And some Blu-ray too. No matter how they list them in the mon...
Blu-ray is not actually making any sustainable gains. It's makes moves up with a handful of movies tailor-made for the PS3 crowd and then slows to a trickle in the following week. DVD started as a trickle, became a steady flow and by this point in it's lifespan, there was no doubt it was taking over. DVD was adopted faster than any format in the history of format changes by far. It didn't have the ups and downs of Blu-ray. DVD clubbed VHS like a baby seal. Blu-ray throws rocks through DVDs wi...
But if you really put it in context, it's terrible. Two and a half years in and they are shooting for 2.5 million machines. DVD was selling twice as many machines at that point in it's lifespan. All the while Sony and some members of the press have talked about Blu-ray being a huge success. 500 million for the year is less than Blu-ray had done last year. It will have to make 250 million more in the next two weeks to match last year and there are no new major releases that are capable of maki...
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Look at the graphic in the far upper right corner. That is Blu-ray when there is no Iron Man, 300 or Dark Knight. While DVD still sells millions of copies of titles, only a handful of Blu-ray owners buy anything. Mostly catalog movies drastically reduced in price. I didn't hear Blu-ray touting sales of Wall-E. But I bet it sold far more copies on DVD than B...
I think a lot of it is CGI.
According to Kojima's comments the cut scenes in MGS were all HD video. 1080p HD video takes up tons of space. In a game with lots of extremely long cut scenes, some as long as 90 minutes, a bunch of those 50 gigs disappear quick.
Don't believe Sony's nonsense. MGS was a 10 hour game. There is no way that couldn't have gone on a DVD9. All of the space eating cut-scenes should have been totally done in engine. Blu-ray is a scam.
Mandatory installs are based on the slow speed of the drive. The same games that need a install on Blu-ray look and play fine on DVD9 without the install. Some developers may be more talented than others and can get around it, but not everyone can.
Digital downloads h...
I love the way fanboys can justify something based on the article of another 10 year old fanboy. Hundreds of games are released that fit onto one DVD9 fine and people focus on the 3 or 4 that needed multiple disc. All because Sony says Blu-ray is needed. And of course Sony says that because it's true, and not because they stand to make billions if they can fool people into making the switch. But the real proof is that all of Sony's exclusives contain 100 hours worth of gameplay. And everyone ...
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They can make all the predictions they want. They have been making them since Blu-ray launched, yet none of them have come true. 2.2 million machines for the year. Those are sad numbers two and a half years in. But again Sony will brag that sales are up 300% over last year, as if 300% over nothing is something to brag about. And the sales surge was only because of artificially low prices, they went back up to where they will be for the next year immediately after Bl...
you are the joke. There have been hundreds of pro Blu-ray articles since it's launch proclaiming it as the must have item. "Blu-ray up 300%", "DVD on the way out", Blu-ray is the future today". Never with any actual sales numbers to backup any of those claims. Sony has no problem releasing PS3 numbers each month because those numbers are fine, but they refuse to allow Blu-ray numbers to be released because they are embarrassing. Read this article and do the math. Two ...
Sorry, I should have been more specific. By Games and Devices, I meant the Microsoft division within their company that the 360 belongs to. Along with the Zune, Surface, Office for Mac advertising(it's really in this division) and other items that don't make money, they just cost money.
But the PS3 is Sony's problem. Microsoft didn't push Blu-ray, they didn't make Sony release a $600 machine at a loss of over $200 per machine, they didn't make Sony act so arrogantly telling people they would have to just work extra hours to get a PS3 and they didn't make Sony hype there machine as vastly superior and then have it produce games that didn't live up to that.
Sony caused themselves to lose so much money they can't even advertise their system properly and they went ...
According to the article, DVD sold to 100% of the people in some markets. My point is that it's time for the hype articles to stop. Pretending that Blu-ray is a success when you can only sell 1.7 million copies of a movie tailor made for the demographic that owns most of your machines, is pretty sad. Going by the info you found there were 7 million DVD players in the US, there aren't that many Blu-ray players in the world most likely if you leave out the PS3. Since Sony won't release actual n...
If only The Matrix had a video game system out in 1999 that had sold over 17 million machines. People are still getting fooled by the hype. Not taking anything from the Dark Knight, just saying comparing Blu-ray to DVD in 1999 is a complete sham. Articles like this deceive because they fail to mention that The Matrix sold to 100% of DVD owners at the time. Dark Knight is by far the most successful Blu-ray and it hasn't sold to even 10%. When you add the PS3 into the mix, Blu-ray's "Troja...
They might be looking for a game that would actually require Blu-ray.
There are licenses that Microsoft has that they could use against Sony too. What if Microsoft suddenly says Sony PCs can't be sold with Windows. Sony's pretty bold for a broke ass company in a bad situation. They could be starting another battle and they can't afford anymore fights right now.
Or it could just be an admission that Sony is desperate and will do anything to slow down the 360.
The main one being Sony dumping Blu-ray for someone else's disc and the fact that that disc drive would cost several thousand by itself.
I'm sure Killzone cost far more than 40 million. That game has been in development since '05 trying to live up to that trailer. They have to be pushing 50-60 million by now.