Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO Kazuo Hirai has reaffirmed his belief that overall PlayStation 3 operations are expected to turn profitable by March 2009 - the end of Sony's 2008 fiscal year, according to a report from Japanese wire service Jiji Press.
Hirai first told the Associated Press in December 2007 that his goal as CEO was to help Sony's game division "escape as soon as possible from the red and return to the black in fiscal year 2008."
ScreenRant's Stephen Tang writes, "The Elder Scrolls 6 won't be releasing for a while, and in the meantime, the modding community has been making Skyrim into a next-gen game."
That’s just laughable to me. I think they’ve squeezed all they can out of an 12 year old game
"Easily" because they see mods, says the gamer. To heck with licensing, terms agreements conditions, etc. all you need to do is belive in mods. Yeah, so real superficial BS yo.
Do people not want to play a new game? Like, I’d rather see 6 than just a prettier version of a game we’ve been playing since the 360/PS3 gen…
Yes please. Did pretty much everything there was to do in this game. Took a very long time and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Skyrim is one of my all-time favorites, but I would prefer a new experience.
I don't want a next-gen version of a game I've already played to death. Skyrim was a great game, but I'm over it.
Sony owns a fair few iconic franchises - many dating right back to the original PlayStation. But while we’re pretty familiar with the likes of ongoing series such as God of War, Horizon, and Gran Turismo, there are plenty of PlayStation franchises that haven’t seen the light of day in a long time. So in this video, we’re going to be taking a look at the status of PlayStation’s many IPs, and checking in on when we last heard from them.
Indeed. We hear this “underutilized” talk as if every old franchise should have a comeback or reboot.
When new IPs start looking like Concord, you can't blame people for wanting another Resistance or Killzone instead.
J&D and Resistance are good ones. As much as I love these, though, I'm not sure they would payoff without an enormous marketing push. Younger gamers today do not have taste and the older gamers that would appreciate these might not be enough. But yeah, I would day 1 Resistance.
Well that’s just the consequence of consistently producing new IPs isn’t it. Not all studios can be or want to be like polyphony digital who made gran turismo all the time.
Here lies The Infamous Series; once a shining beacon of free flying, lighting bolt sniping, and wire riding amazing gameplay, it has been laid to rest and be forgotten for what seems like forever despite being loved by millions. Plot next to Wipeout across from NBA Jam.
Still baffling they cancelled Twisted Metal, Factions 2 and Spider-Man Multiverse LS game but thought Concord looked good enough.
Ape Escape, Parappa / Lammy, Gravity Rush, good times. Always hoping for them to make a return, or at least similar type games, such as the newly-announced Astro Bot, but one game isn't enough. Bring back the joyfulness of the 90's era of gaming.
Take it to the sea and start the fishing. Take a look at the best fishing games you can play on the PS2 today.
Its amazing how sony was able to reduce the cost of the ps3, in a year. And on top of that they will be turning profit at the end of this fiscal year. I am just hoping that the blueray technology will go down in price soon. As much as i would love to buy blueray movies, i really cant cause its to expensive for me to shell out 30 bucks a pop for one movie. But when the darkknight comes out in blueray, i will definitly give that movie a purcahse.
Turning profit in just 2 years from launch, huh? How are they going to do this without exclusive must have games? I see 3d0 on a more stable path if you ask me. The ps3, to me, seems like the 3d0 to a T only with a semi successful shot at the market.
I don't see Sony making profit until Christmas 09, myself. I don't think they will have an install base or games to support that kind of increase in profit. I really don't.
I see them having 16 million units sold by years end, christmas included and I see 3 exclusive Ps3 games set up for the holidays.
Resistance 2
Little Big planet
Motor storm 1.5
that's it! And those don't appeal to everyone guys. Sony isn't going to hit that target.
well they dont need to do a price drop this year at all, Microsoft drop their price on the 20gb 360 to discontinue it and introduce a 60gb 360 for $50 dollars more than the $20gb. so no change. Sony just added value to the 40gb PS3 by swapping the HDD to a 80gb HDD and completely replaced the sixaxis to the DS3. so yea they are on pace to become profitable.
find this hard to believe. The PS3 is not really selling that well when compared to the Wii, and they lose Money on every console.
If this is true then MS must be turning a profit by now, even with the billion they put aside for repairs..