Sony's PS3 struggling to find the "sweet spot" in the video game market as its sales drop again.
Despite Sony's Playstation 3 quarterly sales growth doubling from last year, the end result from this year's holiday sales doesn't bode well according to the Wall Street Journal.
"While the 20 year anniversary edition of Nordic Game, NG24 Spring's homepage on 21-24 May in Malmö, Sweden, is getting closer, the organizers announced that more than 150 speakers are now lined up for the show." - Nordic Game.
The gaming industry has drifted away from offering full-fledged games to putting unfinished titles that are jam-packed with microtransactions on the market.
It's not the fault of the gaming industry. Gamers were told what was happening, were warned about where this would lead, did nothing, and now are acting like it's the fault of publishers that they kept buying these games and investing in MTX. If only those gamers at that time felt as strongly about these things as they do Helldivers 2.
This is what amazed me the most when playing hours upon hours of stellar Blade version 1.00.00 no bugs, no crashes, no sudden drops in frames, no screen tear, no falling from the world, just a complete package on a game under 50GB.
I think Korea will play a major role in gaming in the long run , because they're releasing banger after banger.
Still pretty common to find if you stay away from the AAA publishers, in the last 10yrs ive probably only bought like 3 games combined from EA/ACTIVISION/UBISOFT. Even now i still buy games that work right out the box perfectly fine. Just recently got like 6hrs into Alone in the Dark, and not a single sign of any of that bs, really enjoying my time with it.
And we as gamers have to accept our role in that. Constantly never being satisfied. Constantly demanding more while paying less. Constantly demanding better frame rates, better graphics, more modes and faster faster faster…. Then review bombing the product when a demand isn’t met. Meanwhile those same demands are making games more difficult, complex and more expensive to create than ever before, on shrinking timelines that burn out employees and make their lives miserable.
You wanna know why so many games get delayed? Cuz the original release dates weren’t realistic to begin with, but you can’t tell a gamer their game is further away than they want to hear. Some dev or game designer will be threatened physically. That builds even more pressure and rushing. We are officially squeezing water out of rocks and still complaining about that how hard you have to squeeze the rock be just waiting for rain. Most of the time we take it out on the developing studio, when it’s the publisher making the calls.
All you need to do is read the comments on most websites and social media to see how toxic, entitled and petty the gaming community at large is, and realize how that transforms into impossible expectations on the parts of game makers.
This is one battle that gamers have never won, hahaha. They were parading recently for their "win" against Sony. Where's the energy for this one, guys? LMAO!
"The most important games event of Latin America, gamescom latam, has unveiled the finalists for its flagship award ceremony, the gamescom latam BIG Festival, which celebrates the best in the global market of games." - Gamescom.
The first nail in the coffin for the PS3 is when they put that garbage CELL processor in it and also when they released all those CG videos back in E3 2005.
The Xbox 360 has proven itself to be the most powerful console on the market, consistently defeating the PS3 in over 12 rounds of game comparisons at Eurogamer EVERY time. Not only this, but the Xbox 360 also always defeats the PS3 at Gametrailers comparisons as well. As a person who believes in the scientific method, one should always base his position on objective data and evidence, and the evidence has clearly (actually undoubtedly, as the PS3 has never won a comparison ever) that the Xbox 360 is the most powerful console on the marketplace right now. The Xbox 360 is an example of technical success and innovation and this is why it will win the battle against its inferior rivals.
All of Sony's deceit and lies are finally catching back up to them, I love Karma. You can run Sony, but you can't hide from it any longer
Sony needs to do something, its the dev support that is dangerous for Sony, not lackluster Xmas sales although they're tied together.
Sony needs to make deals with devs but I think people are seeing the PS3's true hardware capabilites, that is hurting PS3's standing the most(not price). Popular opinion is hurting Sony as well, they won that battle last generation.
http://www.europe-nintendo....
I have not even been logging on game sites that much lately missing a ton of news(Sales etc) and I knew something was wrong when Sony aired a PSN movie service ad when they need to focus on their BD push/investment.
Yet Sony's stock price rose today...
They will do something. It's called games and a price cut.
This is a pretty bad article. Not only is it biased, but it's also based on false stereotypes. Complete junk.