If his games don't make money he would have a hard time making the games he wants. Thankfully Heavy Rain made a profit for Sony which in turn greenlit Beyond. There are a ton of developers who make games out of passion. What often gets lost along the way are publishers who are more focused on turning a profit and often times have their own input in the development..
David Cage is still an employee which is why he was told to have Move support and cancel/delay the DLC for ...
Microsoft should be talking about games first. Let the consumers talk about Apps and media functions if they desire. A consoles selling point should be games, not navigating the dashboard with Kinect or how they got ESPN as a partner.
Well soon find out what the primarily focus will be. You can't be a jack of all trades but a master of none. Let the games speak for the next Xbox and the dialogue about the media functions will follow. Don't make the focus on an all-in-...
"MikeMyers the difference is while Sony does get 3 party exclusives from time to time, they also have plenty of their own 1st party exclusives... Something Microsoft does not, that is their problem."
Fair enough but again why is it a problem when Microsoft gets 3rd party timed exclusive deals and not for Sony and Nintendo? Obviously Microsoft is trying to be more attractive in comparison by telling people this is the console you should get the game on. It's no d...
If you feel they don't care about its customers then stop being one. That's the best way to try and get them to change their ways. Either that or address them directly through the forums or whatever. If they still don't listen then support the developers who do. Either way doesn't justify piracy.
This entitlement attitude is really getting out of hand. Gaming is a hobby, not a right. EA can do as they please and if they continue to mess up they will see their ...
The guy is trolling for saying it would be silly for Sony to skip CoD on the PS4? Explain that one.
It's funny seeing so many people get bent out of shape over Call of Duty's success. It still remains the most popular franchise on the PS3, why would things change on the PS4?
That doesn't make any sense. You are treating EA as an entity with no soul. They have thousands of employees that work there. If they get let go because software sales decline you'll just excuse yourself by saying the games aren't that good even if part of the problem is people like you who think it's ok to not support them but still play their games.
Nobody is forcing you to buy EA games. If you don't like supporting online passes or DLC then don't pl...
The difference is you legally obtained it. Your game system will not recognize it as an illegal copy. Gamestop is also legally allowed to sell used games. Publishers know this and accept it. They can try and get laws made to prevent it but until that happens you are legally able to purchase and obtain that content. Can you name one torrent site that is legally allowed to offer you those games for free?
The problem really stems from people thinking it is their right. They have...
I blindly love Microsoft? If you're going to make wild accusations please show me where that's what I do.
It does make good business sense to have timed exclusives. I never said i prefer it. Most game sales happen in the beginning. How well did Oblivion sell on the PS3 compared to the Xbox 360? How about Bioshock? How well did GTA sell on the PS2? Now look at how GTA sells on the PS3 and Xbox 360. That isn't blind love towards Microsoft, it's what we call real...
This kind of makes sense. Why get bonuses if you're not doing well financially? If I worked for Sony and was let go due to cutbacks I'd be very resentful seeing the big shots continue to get bonuses.
Like Virtua Fighter 5 and Final Fantasy XIII? The damage is already done after a year. Sony did this with Grand Theft Auto on the PS2. I think it's pretty safe to say that was a smart move. It also came out later on the Xbox.
I don't see why so many have issues when Microsoft does it other than they hate Microsoft and love Sony.
So you think Polyphony should move away from Gran Tursimo? You think Turn 10 should move away from Forza? You think Nintendo should move away from Mario Kart?
You don't drop an ip that is that valuable unless sales drop significantly. Sorry but software sales prove you're outnumbered.
What's funny is you have a member who is very pro-Sony that is defending how articles about the next Xbox go through the approval process, because I guess some pro-Xbox people complained about it. Ask yourself this, did the same member write a blog about all the complaints about how the media hates Sony and the approval system and try to mediate the situation then?
It's funny how the bigger they are the more people want it to fall. They will keep making Call of Duty because it continues to sell, regardless of all the trolling over it on the forums.
What's interesting is how people are always so quick to judge something before even seeing it.
The Last of Us looks amazing. Uncharted 2 showed you can strike a good balance of having both. I imagine the SP is where the game will shine. Co-op would be cool too.
Well said Logic and PopRocks, bubbles up.
Call of Duty has become the largest franchise so as a business move it makes good sense to partner yourself with it. Just like how Sony partnered itself with Final Fantasy and Grand Theft Auto before.
What I see on forums are nothing but double standards. Seems to me most people were ok with these back door deals and the PS2 getting all the software. Almost to the point of a monopoly. Now we see Microsoft using DLC as a tactical advantage and the anti-Microsoft people all of ...
Sony is getting back to their original roots. Both the PS2 and PS3 were difficult systems to work on and Sony pretty much had to adapt after all the problems getting developers to fully understand the hardware. When you have a platform as popular as the PS2 that becomes the lead platform. That rarely happened on the PS3 and because if that the developers either didn't take the time to fully exploit the hardware like 1st parties do, the development took longer like GTA IV, or we got inferi...
If it's 20 million or 200 million what difference does it make? You're not the one who has made that investment so you don't get a say. This self entitlement attitude of yours ends after you bought the game. You don't get a say in how used games affects their bottom end.
So now what, you're going to quote me and put citation needed on that too?
Don't tell me or anyone else who should or shouldn't be sympathetic. That's not your call. You have issues with EA, not everyone else does so stop taking polls and trying to force others onto your petitions.
Yet your opinion on the subject is credible? Tomb Raider was an expensive game to make, of course they would like to have all the revenue from consumers to go directly to them. Wouldn't you if you invested that much into making it?
It's so easy to be dismissive sitting a million miles away on your chair typing away how used game sales don't matter when you're the one who's not making that investment. If Square thinks used game sales hurt its chances at mak...
"The casual crowd or those who have an Xbox to killtime (usualy because it's cheaper and because of the headset aka cross game chat) are the ones who always go on about it, you know those groups of friends who just do it because other friends are doing it."
That makes absolutely no sense at all. Are we now claiming PS3 owners are hardcore gamers and Xbox 360 owners are casual? Did you forget that Call of Duty is also the number one franchise on the PS3?
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