In part two of a two part article looking at the effect the Web 2.0 is having on console gaming, the Weekend Gamer moves from Microsoft to look at Sony and Nintendo, and then makes some observations based on all three hardware companies. From the article:
On Sony--
"As for the Playstation 3, while much can be said of the mistakes that Sony has made over the past two years regarding the announcement and subsequent launch of their next-gen console, the evidence seems to be mounting that they are positioning themselves to become the leader in Web 2.0 experiences on a console..."
On Nintendo--
"...without a hard drive and a streamlined, simpler way to connect to other gamers, the Wii simply won't be able to take advantage of this new way to look at gaming. Nintendo will have to wait until the next generation of consoles to implement these changes in game development and presentation, if in fact they actually want to go that direction at all."
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.
Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.
Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.
The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.
In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.
Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."
"Feminist Whore" lmao
ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.
its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.
ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.
They're not offensive.
And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!
Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
Good to know these people realize that PS3 and Sony is the future. It looks like after all the blunders, Sony will be attacking Wii60's weak points for massive damage.
every console has it's advantages
I am still waiting to see why Home is so great, seems like a very cumbersome and extreme way of doing what live already does.
I just do not see the necessity in 3/4 of what home is about. Seems a little animal crossing-ish (oh jeez another rip off) to me. but then again, I'm sure you will just label me a fan-man anyway for thinking that .
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