| KBG29 said: The state of the US game market is completely disgusting right now. First of all you have the PS3, the best value for your money Game console ever made selling well below a rushed deffective system and 5 year old tech with built in WiFi and Motion controll. Then you have a game which is a decent title in Halo3 pushing like 3.3m units in 3 weeks when a game like Bioshock comes out on the same system to much better user and critcal acclaim and ends up selling 1/4 the amount of units. At this point in time I am completely lost as what has happened to the industry. Nintendo sure has disrupted it, but to what cost will it be. Even as an avid PS3 fanboy I have got to blame this big problem on Sony. Sony is the video game industry, and their is no arguing that. However in the last year they have completly droped the ball and it is letting everyone else, but Nintendo down. It is not that the PS3 was to expensive or they are not focused enough on games or any of the other crap that people like to bring up. The problem is Sony has (no words bad enough to explain it) marketing. Up until the PS3 came out Sony was doing marketing like a man possesed. Everytime a game like Black, Burnout, Tony Hawk, Madden, ATV vs MX, or any other 3rd party game came out their was great marketing and a PS2 at the end. Everyone knew about the good games cause Sony helped the devs get them showcased, and Sony put their consoles name on it. So far in the Era of the PS3, Sony has forgotten completely about all of that. All Summer long I watched Baseball games on Fox, and ESPN and I can not even remember any commercials for the PS3. In fact I have only see the HS commercials, since the end of the confusing white room BS. If this gen is to start turning around it is all on Sony's sholders. If they can not learn how to market the PS3 and how to help out these 3rd parties the way they did in the past, it is going to be a long dreadful, period for all developers. |
1) I think many would argue the PS3 is the WORST value for your money game console, if not ever made, at least of this generation.
2) There's no arguing Sony is the video game industry? I'm sure Nintendo, Microsoft, EA and others WOULD argue that. Sony was the video game industry, for two generations. So was Atari at one point.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
