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Millennium on 25 September 2008

"When we launched the PSP it launched at a 28-year old, heavily male, New York subway [demographic], and that slowly trended down," he went on. "Now we’re in the mid-teens with a lot of tracking even younger than that. Our research shows that in the next 12 months young moms actually are set to have the highest propensity to purchase the hardware and software for their young children.”

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Onyxmeth on 25 September 2008
axumblade said:



So how DO you make a profitable game for PSP?

“The recipe for success on the PSP resides simply in providing franchise games that are strong brand names like on consoles, but have unique gameplay on the system,” Koller insisted. “You cannot have ports. We used God of War: Chains of Olympus this year as an example of that, as well as Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, and Midnight Club, which is going to be launching in the next few weeks. Those three games are titles that have very strong brand names on console but are coming over with unique gameplay on the PSP.”

I'm confused. Even being the great game that it was, what made God of War: Chains of Olympus any more unique in gameplay than the PS2 GOW games? I suppose the same would apply for Midnight Club too, but I haven't played it to know for sure.

 



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Godot on 25 September 2008

Without concrete announcement of upcoming games, it doesn't look too well.



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hunter_alien on 25 September 2008
Onyxmeth said:
axumblade said:



So how DO you make a profitable game for PSP?

“The recipe for success on the PSP resides simply in providing franchise games that are strong brand names like on consoles, but have unique gameplay on the system,” Koller insisted. “You cannot have ports. We used God of War: Chains of Olympus this year as an example of that, as well as Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, and Midnight Club, which is going to be launching in the next few weeks. Those three games are titles that have very strong brand names on console but are coming over with unique gameplay on the PSP.”

I'm confused. Even being the great game that it was, what made God of War: Chains of Olympus any more unique in gameplay than the PS2 GOW games? I suppose the same would apply for Midnight Club too, but I haven't played it to know for sure.

 

IMO he means the exclusivity and not the fact that there are entirely new games... and lets admit it, you dont need a new genre to boost sales, because CC and CoO managed to do that pretty damn well ;)

 



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papflesje on 25 September 2008

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And if they announce now, it's "why announce something so soon, they should adopt nintendo's strategy of announcing when it's close to finishing"

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hunter_alien on 25 September 2008
papflesje said:
The humble, hard-working Skalkuan farmers, were forced to pick up the arms, and have been fighting ever since to protect their legacy.


And if they announce now, it's "why announce something so soon, they should adopt nintendo's strategy of announcing when it's close to finishing"

PSP = kiddy am confirmed?


It's never good, is it?

Kiddy! No, hardcore!...

 

Well on that I agree... looking at the Killzone 2/FFXIII fiasco, I cant say that their game announcement strategy is that good ....



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Onyxmeth on 25 September 2008
hunter_alien said:
Onyxmeth said:
axumblade said:



So how DO you make a profitable game for PSP?

“The recipe for success on the PSP resides simply in providing franchise games that are strong brand names like on consoles, but have unique gameplay on the system,” Koller insisted. “You cannot have ports. We used God of War: Chains of Olympus this year as an example of that, as well as Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, and Midnight Club, which is going to be launching in the next few weeks. Those three games are titles that have very strong brand names on console but are coming over with unique gameplay on the PSP.”

I'm confused. Even being the great game that it was, what made God of War: Chains of Olympus any more unique in gameplay than the PS2 GOW games? I suppose the same would apply for Midnight Club too, but I haven't played it to know for sure.

 

IMO he means the exclusivity and not the fact that there are entirely new games... and lets admit it, you dont need a new genre to boost sales, because CC and CoO managed to do that pretty damn well ;)

 

I don't see how his comment "unique gameplay on the system" translates to exclusivity, but I suppose that would be a fun way to spin the comment to put it in comparison with the DS.

 



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FilaBrasileiro on 25 September 2008

These new games better not be some Imagine Babyz bullshit. Give something like The Elder Scroll Travellers that was announced a long time ago, and I wouldn't mind a port of Beyond Good&Evil.



Dgc1808 on 25 September 2008

For getting as much market share on the DS and selling as much units as it does a week worldwide with very few game releases, and making a very good profit for SONY, I say the PSP is a success.....



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MANUELF on 25 September 2008
Dgc1808 said:
For getting as much market share on the DS and selling as much units as it does a week worldwide with very few game releases, and making a very good profit for SONY, I say the PSP is a success.....

 

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