| osamanobama said: so 1 (2 if you count ALL 4 One) game out of... what 10. all the other games were of superb quality. and it doesnt matter to the gamer, until the company ceases to make games. what happens in the mean time is of no concern, its up to the company to be profitable, and if it takes making less games, milking some more like other companies do to become profitable, thats still not good for the gamer. games are good for the gamer. and Sony has been churning out tons of very high quality exclusives, with 1 or 2 duds. thats good for the gamer, if they reduce those games, its bad. sure i want Sony to do good, but if it comes at the expense of games, then i will be moving to which ever company provides me those games. i dont buy the system so the company makes profit, i buy the system for the games. and the only game that i regret buying from Sony was Socom 4, and i bought that because of the move support ( and perhaps the little fanboy in me), all the other games i bought from Sony either met my expectations or vastly exceeded them. So really in no way is it good for the gamer, for a company to do what Microsoft does. if i worked for Microsoft or had their stock, i would love it, but i dont. if i worked for Sony or owned their stock, i would be pisses, but i dont. i own their game system, i own it to play games, not to profit Sony. |
They had more serious duds than the 2 socoms, those are just the ones I happened to mention. And I agree with you, it isn't good for the gamer as far as having an awesome library. But people can only play so many games too. I mean, they had more exclusives than their attach rate I think...
I understand where you are coming from. I'm just giving the overall picture. Let's say Sony goes bankrupt because of their business practices and all of a sudden your only options are Microsoft and Nintendo, but those companies don't do anything different than what they are now. Wouldn't that suck? I think it would suck. Competition drives new innovations. You wouldn't be too happy then without all the good exclusives to play. I mean, like people said... no one buys some of their exclusives, good or bad. So the "gamer" isn't really hurt if the "gamer" never bought any copies to begin with. If your install base is 60 mill, and a game like Resistance can only sell 1 mill, down over 150% from previous releases... that just isn't good. I'm sure they lost money on that. Very little reason to make a 4th one. Focus your efforts elsewhere.
It's one thing when you make a new game that sells well and the fanbase is pissed off about certain features. Take Gears of War. Fans always piss and moan about Gears 3 not being as fun as Gears 2. Same happened with Gears 2 to 1. But it's still good enough so that they play it, plus there are new and different features about the newer games that seems to make them like it more in other areas. (Horde in 2, Beast, Arcade, New Horde in 3). With many Sony exclusives, that doesn't seem to be the case. They just seem to die. That means they aren't engaging the fan base, and the sales won't be there for the next game. You can say, but that's a good game that gamers will be deprived of. But in reality... how many gamers are we talking about? Do only 1 million out of 60+ million of their users consider themselves to be hardcore? That's not enough. But I don't think even many hardcore gamers buy a lot of their exclusives just going on sales.
You also admit you're a bit of a fanboy, so for every game but socom to meet or exceed all your expectations... that is not the case of most PS3 owners. Or gamers in general. I still don't get what was so special about Oblivion, and I still think that SF4 was vastly inferior to MK vs DC and SC4 in terms of fun. But that's just me.
I'm not saying for them to not take chances and make games like Heavy Rain or Little Big Planet. I just don't think they should continue making games that people don't buy/they can't devote enough resources to/franchises are clearly dying or dead.
To be honest, I have a funny feeling that their developing costs are also higher than other companies that do the same, just judging on how they run their business in all aspects. I'm sure budgets can be trimmed without sacrificing quality with them. At the same time, they still need to cut some games. But like I said, it matters because you wouldn't want to be stuck with just 1 Wii U and 1 Xbox 720 or whatever they will be called.
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