In the wake of posting an op-ed on Sony's prospects in the console race last week, we're still trying to dig our way out of the vast quantities of e-mail we received. We decided to post and respond to some of these letters. Read on...
Last week, we posted an editorial on some of the reasons for why we think that Sony will remain on top with the PlayStation 3. Unsurprisingly, immediately after posting it the flood of reader e-mail started coming in fast and furious. I think it's safe to say that this one op-ed produced more feedback from readers than almost anything we've posted in the past. There's no doubt than when it comes to the topic of "console wars" people can be very opinionated.
Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.
From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Sony may end up with the largest percentage of consoles sold, but in my mind Sony has already lost, simply because this question is being asked.
Personally I think that's a good thing. I'd rather have a competitive marketplace.
Interesting to read that GOW's Mad World trailer was created the same way as MGS's game engine-powered trailers/cut scenes. (MGS2-4 have all done this too):
From the article:
"I have seen the Gears of War ad/trailer and, better yet I've been able to play a little bit of Gears of War. I would not say that the trailer is totally representative of the game itself, even though it's using in-game assets. It's one thing to create a cool video with in-game assets, and it's another to have the same visual fidelity with everything going on at once (physics, AI, etc.). And no, it doesn't look better than that prerendered Killzone trailer, not even close. The point, however, is that games like Resistance do look about on par with Gears, which is considered by most to be the most visually striking 360 game yet."