VGW's Jen Bosier: Ignoring that Jack Tretton is boasting that it took the PS3 four whole years to “hit its stride,” the comment is interesting coming from a platform which has consistently ranked last in sales figures. Released with a larger than life price tag in 2006, the console has even failed to outsell its younger brother, the PS2, at the same point in its career. And what are the PS3′s big titles this year? “Resistance 3,” “Uncharted 3,” “Killzone 3,” and let’s not forget “Yakuza 4.” With such an advanced console just now “hitting its stride,” you’d think there would be a few more original IPs in that list.
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
EA has shut down rumors that EA Motive considered a Dead Space 2 remake before shelving it due to low sales of the previous game, saying there's "no validity" to the reports.
Why not remake DS2 whether shot down or not it's still my favorite game next to DS1. As much as I hate EA I would buy or would have bought DS2 day one.
No validity XD "Guys guys, we cant possible make a good game or cater to the gamers wants, stop"
I don't know if sales met their expectations or not. I just know that the high review scores received my attention so I was interested in buying it, but its price stayed high (50+ bucks) for so long that I simply never bothered picking it up.
Doesn't pay full price
Doesn't pay *any* price
Ponders if sales met expectations regarding an allegedly canceled sequel.
Gee...
Well, for starters, I'm sure there are plenty of games I never bought which did, somehow, still, meet their sales-expectations.
Concerning Dead Space; I never played and thus cared for the original. It's in multiple genres (shooter, sci-fi, horror) I don't particularly care about so it was barely on my radar pre-launch. I was never its target-audience.
When reviews hit, and it was scoring big, it gathered my interest, so while it wasn't in my field of interest, it mrans that I wanted to give it a fair shot and at least give it a try, as I do with many games across different genres; I tend to just cherry-pick the good stuff and see if it's for me or not.
But, I do wait for sales on those games I take a risk on.
Lol, you are a huge part of the problem. If a very high-quality game is not even worth 50 bucks to you, then what is?
Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…
OK I edited this shit as it was a bit of a rant. But still, although there is a lot of sequels this year, there are more IP's coming next year. There's always going to be that year where theres loads of sequels, leaving room for better IP's next year.
you’d think there would be a few more original IPs in that list.
Thats all i needed to know to found it this is another lets bash sony for the hell of it. Last time i checked sony has introduced the highest rated and the most IP's this gen.
Console gaming is dying, get ready to have alot less games to choose from. PC is starting to take focus, because thats where the profit margins are. Nothing new and interesting on console except sony first party stuff these days. Now dont get me wrong, big budget games that take little risk will have a place on console... but nothing like arma 2, stalker, dota 2, amnesia, guild wars 2 etc...
*sighs*
1. Sequels can't be placed into a single answer of games that are playing it safe. Honestly, how many games do people look at each day and say "I can't wait for its sequel!" Portal 2 and inFamous 2 are two signs of games where people want sequels. Yet, we look at the propagation of games that people still enjoy and continue to see it as a sign of a stale business when the number of new and worthwhile IPs continues to grow each year.
The problem here is the myopic view of people to see what they are getting and not that the business is growing stale and only puts out the same games. Not to say this doesn't happen, but it's far from the trend that this articles continue to make it out to be.
2. Profits are declining, but video game sales are still extremely profitable. Games are costing more and more to make and market each year, yet sales tend to be comparable to their previous endeavors. And with more games getting this axe each year compared to making it to the end, there's a lot of spent money on games that never even make it to market this day and age. IMHO, that's a sign of the companies understanding when to cut their losses, but those losses still impact their profits.
3. Once again, people equate the total of sales to a place in the running of "Who's #1?" If you look at how comparable PS3 games sales each year, as well as console sales, worldwide are to the 360, you would be surprised to find that they are going toe to toe. Saying that one is in last place because it wasn't out at the same time as the other console is still a trite statement in this day and age. People need to get over trying to claim one winner over another. Oh, and No one has beat the PS2 yet, so why is it used in a derogatory manner only for the PS3 this gen?
4. Re: "Is he saying that designers are sitting around with dozens of brand new IPs and just refusing to release them because of the hardware they have right now?"
Not just because of hardware but also because of funding and design concepts. There are tons of new IPs explored each year, most of them don't make it past initial design phases, others past alpha stages. The fact that they don't make it tends to be because the concepts are either already present in existing games (do we need another generic FPS that does the same as a few others just with a different name slapped on it?) or their concepts are not solid enough to make a game that they feel will sell well.
5. Re: "With such an advanced console [PS3] just now “hitting its stride,” you’d think there would be a few more original IPs in that list."
Wait, is this the same site that said they were platform agnostic? Let me get this straight, the console with the most varied and number of first-party IPs, including new IPs this year alone (DC Universe Online, Sorcery, and The Last Guardian just off the top of my head for BD games) is being criticized for putting out a lot of sequels as well? How many new first-party IPs are Nintendo and Microsoft putting out this year in comparison?
lol at Pc gaming taking the lead again lol hahahahhahaha