With the holiday season fast approaching, it's that time of year when everyone analyzes pre-order sales in order to determine which games will make the biggest splash this year. Data for the Americas has recently rolled in, indicating very strong numbers for many Xbox 360 titles. This doesn't come as much of a shock, as the 360 is much more popular in North America, but what does come as a bit of a shock are the relative locations of the year's two biggest exclusives. Microsoft's Gears of War 3 currently tops the chart with 1,220,810 pre-orders, while Sony's Uncharted 3 holds 11th place with only 145,739. These numbers are shockingly drastic, but is it something that Sony should be worried about?
Here are three reasons why Naughty Dog and Sony shouldn't stress about Uncharted's lackluster pre-order numbers.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Kinda strange that a 360 fan site reporting about a PS3 game.
Uncharted 3 is going to be amazing.
It is going to sell well regardless of whether or not it is pre-ordered.
If I was your typical obese keyboard warrior I would say "pointless article is pointless" but I'm not one so I won't say it. But have I already said it? o.O Que Twilight Zone musix "Too da toodoo too da toodooo".
Yes- I'm bored at work.
I'm pretty sure more people will just pick it up in release day.
Edit:And if you looke below us you will se inside_out preaching about call for noobs.You might as well be a preacher about cod rotflmfao.oh yea people only buy cod cuz they cant aim and need the computer to help them on consoles.
I will get it for sure but at the moment do not want to pre-order it. If I do it too early I forget that I have to pay in November X amount so for me it is better to pre-order nearer the date
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I don't think the pre-order numbers are the be all/end all as some might think but I'm definitely in the minority on that topic. EVERY trend watcher out there deem those numbers to be near critical to indicating how popular a game will be. Look at the Gears, MW3 and B3 estimates...ALL based on pre-order activity.
Releasing your game along side a game like COD MW3, the peoples champ for several years now is near suicide. COD MW3 will be the biggest ENTERTAINMENT launch of the year...everybody knows that.
I think a bigger problem is that fact the beta was FREE and only generated 1.5 million downloads...that would be a far bigger issue for a system that has 50+ million consoles out in the wild. If they don't bother to download a FREE multi-player beta then what makes you think they will pay 60+ dollars for the game when it launches???
I didn't download the beta because of all the freezing issues, maybe that was the reason the beta numbers were so low.