Hands-down, the PlayStation 3 cannot catch the Wii in hardware sales for this year or next year. Fad or not, even if the Wii loses steam this fall, there's still Mario Galaxy, Mario Party 8 and Metroid Prime 3 (amongst others) that will easily pick up the slack and put the Wii back into the spotlight. That doesn't mean the PS3 can't stand toe-to-toe with the Wii when it comes to software. If Sony can at least convince people that the PlayStation 3 is a venerable, upright rival on the software front, they may be able to turn the software-side of the war in their favor. In turn, the positive press for the PS3's non-hardware could lead to actual hardware sales, and maybe then the PS3 will be back in the fight, legitimately.
Assuming these games don't meet with further delays -- because if they do it'll definitely [further] threaten the PS3's chances of success -- gamers could be bragging to their friends with Wii's about how cool an experience like Lair or Heavenly Sword is. While Wii-pers will be working out the kinks of Wii-elbow, PS3 gamers can sit tight with the top 10 following games:
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful
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.
Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.
Totally ridiculous comment.
The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.
Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.
Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.
And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.
You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.
"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."
Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
Lying to yourself is unbecoming.
Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.
They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.
At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.
Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.
"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.
They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.
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.
They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.
They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.
Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?
WRONG !
its the price thats the problem and ps3 is having its own game shortage its not just the wii !
i love my ps3 but if i own more than 5 ps3 games by the end of the year i will be supprised !
1.rfom. (if im still playing it at the end of the year !)
2.motorstorm.
3.drakes fortune.
4.new rachet game.
5.??
? lair (maybe ! it just doesnt look that much fun to me !)
? heavenly sword (maybe ! im getting bored of hack and slash !)
killzone,lbp,warhawk and some others dont interest me !
I know what he is "trying" to say, and I think it willl be misinterpreted I agree with his idea, but to think Nintendo will roll over and watch sony drop killer app after killer app, is stupid, nintendo realized they created a monster. they just havent fed it enough....
Unless games development dries up for it, the Wii won't be going away anytime soon. The Wii is simply cheap, more involving, fun.
There won't be any "murder" here....or should we say FLAMING here.
The Wii does fill a niche with a selection of games that maximizes the potential of their controller(s). Also, the Wii will never have the size or diverse range of games that the Ps3 will INEVITABLY have over the next 2 years. And if Sony starts developing similar games(eg PS Sports) and controller(s) then the Wii's tidy market share will come under serious threat.
With sure hits like LBP, Warhawk, Folklore, HS, R&C, Uncharted, Killzone coming before the end of this year, you now have some damn good reasons to buy this $200 blue-ray player AND $400 gaming console this Xmas. But again, no murdering here. Just slow and steady wins the race.
The games are coming and the price will eventually drop - unfortunately not this year, though - and then the massive migration from Ps2 to Ps3 will begin.
Oh, how things will change over the next couple of years.
People are buying the Wii because of Wii sports. In countries where Wii Sports are not included, people buy it along with Wii. Like it or not, the Wii already has a killer app and it's called Wii Sports. I bought one for the kids and I'm not that much of a fan of the Wii. I have an Xbox360 Elite. But many people with kids as young as 3 can play the Wii. And people as old as 75. The PS3 and Xbox 360 controls are to intimidating for non-traditional gamers (3-7 and 45-75 years old). I suggest everyone get use to the Wii dominating this gen.
@ fulconer below.
No I didn’t read your comment as I posted mine and did not refresh the page in time. Oh and by the way, you’re still WRONG! Why would anyone play $200.00 more for a carbon copy of Wii Sports and the Wii Controller? Do you think that parents of a 3-7 year old or that 45-75 year old crowd that I mentioned earlier (that are buying the Wii NOW others are waiting because they can't find it.) are willing to pay $200.00 more for basically the same games???? If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I can get you very cheap.
It isn't going to matter what games actually make it out of development & as sales continue to decline fewer & fewer will. The question is how long will Sony wait before they bite the bullet & price the PS3 as a game console because at this point the Wii isn't the niche console, the PS3 is & the mass migration from PS2 has already begun.