iSuppli analyst Pamela Tufegdzic believes that 2008 is shaping up to be PlayStation 3's turn in the spotlight. She believes 2008 will be a turning year for the PS3 with a better lineup of games on the way likely to boost console sales. She also said that they "anticipate Sony will have another price slash on the PS3 this year, and come Christmas, consumers who originally bought the Wii will likely purchase the PS3."
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
GB: "We take a look at 15 amazing games that had the perfect length."
when people start seeing LBP, the PS EYEs capabilitys and HOME.
(not to mention KZ2, RFOM2, MGS4,GT5)
wow.
it`ll be $299 soon enough and moving more units than you`ll have thought possible.
it outsold the 360 in 2007 being almost $300 more expensive.
what do you think will happen when it`s $199-$250?
PS3 will sell more than PS2.
this is what they were talking about when they were talking LONG TERM.
by this time next year it will have sold 30-40 million plus.
this is gonna be crazy.
I expect TGS to reval a FFVII Remake and Chrocno ressurectio
I wonder what will happen to this story once it's approved?
will any game system be brought in huge numbers then?
when the 360 offers more family games than the PS3 as well as strong parental controls, unlike the PS3 which are almost non-existent.
Do you think the people throwing around a Wiimote without an HDD or HD output will want to play the hardcore lineup the PS3 has or for Blu-ray HD movies?
LittleBigPlanet can have some "Wii appeal" but it's not enough.
Sorry, another analyst predicition going nowhere.