Sony: “New IP is the lifeblood of the industry.”

[joeorc]

Tridrakious said:

MDMAniac said:

huaxiong90 said:

Wanna try again?

 

I don't want to derail the thread so the only reply I'll give yoy is that those numbers are quite pathetic. Compare these most "successful" titles to new IP on other platforms and see for yourself. And what's the most important is that these IPs you listed didn't drive the platform sales (with probably Infamous being exception of a small scale - not sure). So, you say Suny understands gamers require new IP and fresh experience? Well, OK... But Sony obviosuly fails to deliver such "refreshment" to gamers demands, as the sales indicates. And that's not OK, especially in conjunction with exec's quote  given.

Sony is more willing to take a risk on IP than Nintendo and Microsoft combined.

For every Gears that Microsoft creates Sony has at least 7 new IP's.

New IP's struggle against the sequels, but Sony's new games are selling enough to give them a sequel. Look at what Uncharted 2 is doing. 1.2 million in 2 weeks.

The thing that I love about Sony is they could have put everything into just making sequels to Gran Turismo, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Sly Cooper, etc, but instead they went with creating a strong line-up of new IP.

yup, I see quite a few people that seem to think that just because a NEW IP does not sale over a million in short time that it's pathetic or something. God that's like saying selling over 1 million of any number of published book's would be pathetic!

anytime you sell over a million copies of anything that's something not to just brush aside, so what if other system's sell more copies of their new IP's. the IDEA is to sell copies.

If you sale a million+ that's a great thing yea everyone would love to sell more copies of anything, no doubt but also being there is type's of software that sell better on one platform over another that's just the way it is.