Kiev, Ukraine – PlayStation development took center stage at Casual Connect when Sony Europe's developer relations manager George Bain addressed an audience of Eastern European developers.
The PlayStation 2 has sold 131.3 million units to date, he said. The software sales for that platform have been over 1.4 billion.
The PlayStation Portable has sold 41.3 million units. Software sales have been 169 million.
And as of June 30th, the PlayStation 3 has sold 14.4 million units, with software sales of 94 million.
he most important information Bain had for his audience was news that, in Europe, the PlayStation 2 "is effectively an open platform," adding, "You no longer have to submit a game for content approval." He used examples from Russia and Indian developers, saying they can "create low-development cost titles and release them in their market."
Without the need of a licensed publisher, it's a direct relationship between a developer and Sony.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
not a bad idea i dont think
the figures basically say " this is how its done"
ps1- CD owned
ps2- DVD owned
ps3- BLU-RAY own again? i think so once ps3 is cheaper in 2009 and more switch to blu-ray and those who want ps3 its gunna be like GOD MODE"
PS2 still going strong
nice find BrunoM...
I'm sure for the time being it's only for the region that they live, but SONY can pick up new games and new developers this way.
I'm looking forward to see Russian or Indian developers coming up with fresh ideas.
That number is just crazy.