TheSixthAxis reviews the sales performance of the PSPgo in its home country during December. The news is not good.
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.
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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.
Acquire, famous for games like Tenchu and Octopath Traveler, becomes KADOKAWA subsidiary. Can this mean a revival for beloved series?
I would kill to have a Way of the Samurai game with a huge budget and modern tech... The first game was one of my greatest joys on PS2 back in the day. And I really hope From Software will do something with Tenchu... I hate that they're just sitting on the IP like it doesn't even exist.
Tenchu would be superb in this day and age. Ninja and samurai games are hot right now and more is better.
Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?
Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.
Lol, flop confirmed! Outsold 2-1 by 360?
That the Go is not doing all that great. I have one, and I do like it (I didn't pay full price for it thank goodness), but it really was not needed. Memory options are getting larger and larger every year, and the regular slim can do the important things that the go does as well as play UMDs. And it is TOO EXPENSIVE. << The most damaging point of all. I don't know why they priced it so high in the first place. A portable device that's only 50 bucks cheaper than a PS3 in the States? Seriously?
price point is its biggest problem,but in saying that i can,t see the sales people pushing the consumer to the go. with the umd model sitting by it on the shelf.theres no point in them giving it the thumbs up wheres the profit in that.also the umd is cheaper than most downloadable content offered another no brainer for the consumer,till the price drops and the down loadable content is cheaper its going to be a slow part of the psp buisness for a while yet.got one myself and i love it great bit of kit but it won,t be main stream for quite some time
yeh if SONY blundered on anything it's the PSP. It's games get pirated worse than the Wii. so many people love the old PSp and are not going to upgrade. plus umd are cheaper than downloading PSP go games
the PSP go is SONY's last dance with handhelds. luckily the PS2 is still selling millions every year.
I think all you people are missing the point here. The go was and is never going to be meant to replace the psp. It was and is meant only as a different option for people on the go! Stop trying to look at it like a different machine. Sony's psp is still selling and I'd like to point out to you that no other handheld has come close to competing with the ds like the psp has.