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It is no surprise that I am a big sony fan, although, i do not hate the other consoles I think competition is good. This generation nearly destroyed Sony financially and they had to close down several studios including: Zipper, BigBig, one of their UK site, and almost Evolution (hope Drive Club will gain a good following). If Sony leaves gaming, this industry will be dominated by just Xbox and Wii, and that will be an extremely sad day.

I hope PS4 will be very profitable for them so they can start buying studios again and expand again, I think Sony smartly invested in alot of first party during their PS1 and PS2 golden era which really did help to shelter their PS3 early years. Without studios like Naughty Dog, Gueurilla, Santa Monica pumping out exclusive after exclusive in the > 8/10 range titles PS3 would have sinked like a rock.

Let's support Sony again, so they can buy more studios or build new ones, keep up with exclusive for years to come! If Sony goes under, it would be the darkest day in Video game history. More so then when Sega when belly up. We have all seen how generic 3rd party games get...... FUSE for example, created by Insomiac which was doing such a good job during their First (Second) Party years now just pumping out crap like FUSE.. it would be sad to see ND or G do that.



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I don't feel the same. $ony and M$ doesn't represent gaming, to them gaming is something they use to push their agenda in other media. Nintendo and Sega on the other hand represent gaming to the core, video games is the only thing they push. The death of Sega was one the darkest day in gaming and if Nintendo go down the same way it's the biggest blow in Video Games history. If Sony goes down there will be other electronic giants like Apple, Samsung or Google could fill in the void.

I have no attachment to M$ or $ony. My love will always goes to Nintendo, Sega, Neo Geo and Atari because they represent gaming during the golden age and silver age of gaming.



The darkest day for gaming would be when Nintendo leaves the industry. Hopefully it will never happen though!



    

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I have got to disagree with that, in terms of Console gaming, the amount of exclusive contents and new IP sony is pushing far exceed what Nintendo has done. Nintendo's agenda was pushing Wii Shovelware with occassional Mario and Zelda IP. If Nintendo doesn't have their handheld, they would be pushing the same game for the past 20 years with minimal innovation.

 

Making same game over and over again, does not represent gaming. At least we saw several new IPs from Sony this generation.

1. Motorstorm (off road arcada racing)

2. Uncharted series

3. Infamous series

4. Quantic Dream's new IPs.

5. The Last of Us

6. Resistance

7. LittleBigPlanet

8. ModNation Racer

9. Various smaller games from Japan Studio i.e. Tokyo Jungle, Trash Panic, White Knight Chronicles

I am sure u can name a few more, but pushing new IPs, new experience, that's what is going to represent gaming, not rehash of the same old shit.



bonkers555 said:

I don't feel the same. $ony and M$ doesn't represent gaming, to them gaming is something they use to push their agenda in other media. Nintendo and Sega on the other hand represent gaming to the core, video games is the only thing they push. The death of Sega was one the darkest day in gaming and if Nintendo go down the same way it's the biggest blow in Video Games history. If Sony goes down there will be other electronic giants like Apple, Samsung or Google could fill in the void.

I have no attachment to M$ or $ony. My love will always goes to Nintendo, Sega, Neo Geo and Atari because they represent gaming during the golden age and silver age of gaming.


I would disagree Sony WAS using PS to push their agenda with the ps3 but now that PS4 is being created by developers and gamers their agenda has changed for the better and i see that with the PS4 and even the ps3 for the last 4 years. Sony pushes creative freedom for their studios and for the most part leave them to do their own things. They have been pushing for innovation and 3d gaming since the ps1 and 2 and I am really happy that PS is as big as it is. With MS all I see is them pushing their agenda as shown with the one announcement and the 360 for the past 3 years.



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Just because a company decides to let go of its gaming segment doesn't mean that suddenly the game developers will turn into architects, professional singers or cleaning ladies.

They will just form new studios, probably with the majority of the original team and then start to make games again.
Independant or not. If their games are good enough they're going to get all the money they want to make a game.

In case of Insomniac, they chose to make an FPS, whether it was Overstrike or Fuse, I don't think it would've mattered much in terms of sales. Now even if they go bankrupt, they will either join other devs and make them better or found a new development company.



xwan said:
I have got to disagree with that, in terms of Console gaming, the amount of exclusive contents and new IP sony is pushing far exceed what Nintendo has done. Nintendo's agenda was pushing Wii Shovelware with occassional Mario and Zelda IP. If Nintendo doesn't have their handheld, they would be pushing the same game for the past 20 years with minimal innovation.

Nintendo didn't push shovelware for the Wii. Third parties did because they saw the quick money.



Man, Sony pretty much NEEDS to make a profit this gen. Last gen wiped out everything they worked for since they entered the game industry.

And with the Vita struggling like it is, they'd better hope than PS4 takes off.



http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/92109/nintendopie/ Nintendopie  Was obviously right and I was obviously wrong. I will forever be a lesser being than them. (6/16/13)

This thread is quite ridiculous...but ill bite.

Sony's time to shine was when the industry needed a new physical medium and complex hardware ever new gen. Since digital distribution is the way to go and DVD/Blurays are no longer needed and x86 is the hardware of choice, I begin to wonder why Sony is still around on the console side.

If PS4 doesn't really take off, Sony can probably make more money being a publisher if they keep making these great games...which is what I actually see happening down the road. Google and Apple will bully someone out of the gaming industry in the next 10 years.



Everyone does.. so they can start giving free games !