so who will give the eulogy for PSASBR?

Abe?

This Abe ^^

Ever since that game was even showed it off, and people outright just "said it was a smash bro's rip off" negative tones followed the entire release of that game, it did not matter if it was a good game , it was condemened right out the gate, by many gamer's outright.

So Sony released it anyway for the Fans and it still did not sell that well, for the wrong platform? maybe if all the character were added to smash bro's and was attached to Nintendo's console it would have done AAA sales.

That's  just the truth In my opinion the Game was ripped right from the start, no matter what Sony would have done could have fixed that perception about this game it was dirt napping right from the get go! fair or not it would always be a Failed shadow to smash bro's right or wrong, that would never be changed, same with Move. Sony does it anyway, and you see where it get's them right?

Marketing really will do you no d@mn good if the perception of the Product is condemed before you even really start the product off.

you can change the perception but, it will take time and resources. Sony I think is going to be trying an investing into more Niche product's that atleast is not just seen as a Mimic of other companies product's because it was not working out that well. so cutting off these type of product's just releases more investment into other area's.

cutting this, and concentrating on origional ip's like TearAway!

Look at little big planet Cart racing, yea seen as just "another Nintendo rip off" so do you see more investment into more cart racing?

even if the product is not a rip off it's seen as ...

I think not only the fans are tired of it but Sony is as well!

Nsanity said: This Abe ^^

From what game is he from?

TruckOSaurus said: Nsanity said: This Abe ^^ From what game is he from?

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Sadness.....

i've been thinking about this game and how it could have been better.

 the game failed to attract attention because of its horribly stupid name, horrible cover, mediocre graphics, horrible roster and of course it was a plain rip off of a concept that was built for nintendo and worked for nintendo. Super Smash was a cohesive game that made sense. 

on the other hand PSASBR was all over the place, instead of attracting a wide range of PS gamers, it managed to alienated everyone ! You had dark characters like Kratos fighting childish ones like fat princess and the set was a random mash up of PS memorabilia. the result was not a game that made you wanna kick some ass

my idea is pretty simple as a matter of fact: when you want gameplay excellence just call Platinum games: take the concept of a crossover brawler and combine it with Anarchy Reigns.

 To begin with, a game like AR could show off the PS3s graphics unlike the concept of Super Smash. Secondly it could look a lot darker and actually interesting instead of the kiddy mess that we ended up with. When you wanna make a fighting game you don't bring everything down to a rated E for everyone level. You take fat princess and add some bruises and scars.

So you have a proper 3D brawler akin to Anarchy Reigns and the name of this game would actually intrigue people and reveal the game's concept. And that is "Playstation VS Everything".

As I said a problem with Battle Royale was the roster. A bunch of commercial failures, a bunch of forgotten characters, a bunch of fluffy characters that don't look menacing at all and what remained didn't look really inviting for a bloody battle anyway. My idea is to simply copy Anarchy reigns even further: have two opposing factions fight each other. On one side have PS only characters and on the "Everything" side their mutliplat counterparts. So it would be like: Radec VS Big Daddy, (original) Dante VS Bayonetta, Kratos VS Gabriel Belmont, Drake VS Lara Croft, Heihachi VS Ryu, Old Snake VS Hitman.

 Have classic PS music themes remixed into some Tekken styled frantic soundtrack, add a ladder, sell some hats and you're ready. I would play that game.

Starting? Wha? This entire gen has seen dev carnage on an unprecedented scale, and it's only going to get worse as games continue to escalate in cost.