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SvennoJ on 11 February 2012
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Stefan.De.Machtige said:
SvennoJ said:
Jexy said:
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It will be a sad day when the need for big sales numbers kills variety.


True. If they follow Microsoft it wont be a good day for gaming.


Well no one is saying put out as few exclusives as Microsoft did this year.  As an Xbox owner, I wish there were more, but then again most of mine at 3rd party anyway.  But Sony has to cut back a SOME.  Microsoft could easily afford to make more too.  But then again keep in mind all of their Kinect exclusives.   We don't count those, but they do.

They could do a bit better market research and adjust the budget more realistically. No need to cut back on nr of games. I don't want xbla, psn, etc to be the only source of variety and all big budget games to be targeted at the widest possible audience.

Apart from motorstorm apocalypse, whose release was completely messed up beyond Sony's control, most exclusives had around a million or more sales. Why is that not good enough anymore?

For a couple reasons:

1. Doing good enough is what got all of Sony in big trouble today. They should have been aiming for great.

2. Doing good enough, when your competition is doing great, is a bad investment. Sony puts in more work, but gains the least.

3. It is a sign of brand weakness. A big brand must be seen to be growing or it's deemed to be in decline. Even stagnating is seen as this.

4. Brands like Mario and Halo sells more consoles. The costs savings of making 1 IP with the strength of 4 or 5 IP's are rather big.

1. The ps3 was in trouble because they were aiming for great instead of good enough. Too much new tech to make it cost effective.

2. There are a lot of other factors why Sony is in trouble today, not because they are making too many games. The earthquake / tsunami and exchange rate are 2 big ones. Sony only makes 67% on overseas sales with the exchange rate compared to when the ps3 launched. Compare Sony's losses to other Japanese tech companies to put it in perspective. Not against MS who is riding on a weak dollar, thus gaining a lot on overseas sales.

3. As far as I know the ps3 brand is still growing, top of sales again since Januari.

4. Imo libraries is what sells consoles. Sure one great game can convince me to buy a console a little sooner, but without a nice variety of other games to be played on it as well I won't buy it.