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Jordahn on 07 April 2009
Squilliam said:
Munkeh111 said:
MANUELF said:
After one hour of reading this thread I can say Sony has more devs than Nintendo but their games doesn't sell that good, except for GT, that's good for gamers but bad for the company.

They sell worse than Nintendo's, but they still are profitable. Uncharted had a budget of $20m, and it has sold over 2m copies, most of their games have sold a million or more

Its the games you don't see, get canned or forget about which counter balance the hits. Furthermore, development costs are just one piece of the pie when bringing a game to market.

 

So.  Like this is exclusive to SONY... 



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Paul on 07 April 2009

GM has the most car development teams and car models in the auto industry and they are a smashing success.



Squilliam on 07 April 2009
Jordahn said:
Squilliam said:
Munkeh111 said:
MANUELF said:
After one hour of reading this thread I can say Sony has more devs than Nintendo but their games doesn't sell that good, except for GT, that's good for gamers but bad for the company.

They sell worse than Nintendo's, but they still are profitable. Uncharted had a budget of $20m, and it has sold over 2m copies, most of their games have sold a million or more

Its the games you don't see, get canned or forget about which counter balance the hits. Furthermore, development costs are just one piece of the pie when bringing a game to market.

 

So.  Like this is exclusive to SONY... 

You haven't have recieved your hugs and kisses yet, I forgive. What I said applied to any publisher, but in this case I was talking about Sony.

 



Tease.

Avarice28 on 07 April 2009
forevercloud3000 said:
MANUELF said:
After one hour of reading this thread I can say Sony has more devs than Nintendo but their games doesn't sell that good, except for GT, that's good for gamers but bad for the company.

 

and THAT my friend is why I feel Sony is the Best Gaming company ever!!!! They are willing to bite the bullet just to get gamers quality games.

I once read an article about how Sony might be too "Creative" for their own good. They are known to developers for never saying "NO" to unique ideas for a game. Shoot, had team ICO been working for anyone else, they would have been shut down immediately. Or Killzone, Killzone series would have been canned after the first game, never having the chance of the awesomeness that is KZ2.

 

I think a "tear" just came to my eye when I read this post....it is so true and we know that we would miss out on some of the greatest games this generation would have seen. (killzone 2 and anything team ICO can make)



Loud_Hot_White_Box on 07 April 2009
Paul said:
GM has the most car development teams and car models in the auto industry and they are a smashing success.

GM cars unlike Sony games aren't rated/reviewed/regarded particularly highly.

Plus, the analogy would only be appropriate if the car manufacturers were marketing competing programs allowing buyers to drive any car they've produced, as with a console.  If that were true, and GM had 1) a large number of 2) quality models (akin to Sony here with games), other manufacturers might have reason to be concerned.

 



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darendt on 07 April 2009
Samus Aran said:

They just insulted themself....
Their first party dev is a lot bigger then Nintendo, but still Nintendo kicks their asses in the gaming department. Nintendo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sony IN making games. If a Nintendo game sells less then 3M it's a failure.... Unless it's a remake or something. There are a lot of great Ninty games in the work right now like a new zelda,sports resorts,sin&punishment 2, pikmin3, punch out, excite bots, new mario(there's always a new Mario...),etc.. Retro studios is also working on something big.

 

Ps: Sony is the most arrogant company I've seen in ages... I would say Microsoft as well, but I like Bill gates. It's not like he's evil.

 

Selling more does not mean better. More successful, but not better. Sony for sure has the better games and best franchises. How many millions of Ab-blasters have been sold around the world? Do they work? no. Are they crap? yes. They still sold a crap load though. There are plenty of suckers in the world to buy stuff. Nintendo is great at marketing and has a name synonymous with games. The original games that are Mario and Zelda based tend to sell the most.



Jordahn on 07 April 2009
Squilliam said:
Jordahn said:
Squilliam said:
Munkeh111 said:
MANUELF said:
After one hour of reading this thread I can say Sony has more devs than Nintendo but their games doesn't sell that good, except for GT, that's good for gamers but bad for the company.

They sell worse than Nintendo's, but they still are profitable. Uncharted had a budget of $20m, and it has sold over 2m copies, most of their games have sold a million or more

Its the games you don't see, get canned or forget about which counter balance the hits. Furthermore, development costs are just one piece of the pie when bringing a game to market.

 

So.  Like this is exclusive to SONY... 

You haven't have recieved your hugs and kisses yet, I forgive. What I said applied to any publisher, but in this case I was talking about Sony.

 

HAHAHAHA!!!  It's the fact of the matter that what SONY announced is undeniably true.  But it pains some of you guys sooooooooooo much that anything is being thrown out to distract from the implication that SONY has the ability to continue churning out quantity and quality choices for the gamer.

:)



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Squilliam on 07 April 2009
Jordahn said:
Squilliam said:

You haven't have recieved your hugs and kisses yet, I forgive. What I said applied to any publisher, but in this case I was talking about Sony.

 

HAHAHAHA!!!  It's the fact of the matter that what SONY announced is undeniably true.  But it pains some of you guys sooooooooooo much that anything is being thrown out to distract from the implication that SONY has the ability to continue churning out quantity and quality choices for the gamer.

:)

Actually it means a lot of different people. Some people wonder why there aren't more games released yet with those numbers, some people wonder if they are profitable. Some people wonder if/think they aren't as efficient as X publisher, some people take it as lotsa games for them, etc. You can take your pick because there have been a lot of responses along the lines of the above which is why its balooned out as a thread to over 200 posts.  

 



Tease.

Jordahn on 07 April 2009
Squilliam said:
Jordahn said:
Squilliam said:

You haven't have recieved your hugs and kisses yet, I forgive. What I said applied to any publisher, but in this case I was talking about Sony.

 

HAHAHAHA!!!  It's the fact of the matter that what SONY announced is undeniably true.  But it pains some of you guys sooooooooooo much that anything is being thrown out to distract from the implication that SONY has the ability to continue churning out quantity and quality choices for the gamer.

:)

Actually it means a lot of different people. Some people wonder why there aren't more games released yet with those numbers, some people wonder if they are profitable. Some people wonder if/think they aren't as efficient as X publisher, some people take it as lotsa games for them, etc. You can take your pick because there have been a lot of responses along the lines of the above which is why its balooned out as a thread to over 200 posts.  

 

Ahhhhh...  Now, that's understandable.  But they are still providing the games.  Could they be more efficient?  Maybe now that the restructuring has taken place sometime in the future.  We'll just have to see...

 



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coolguy on 07 April 2009

sony has the best frist party devs but these guys have to make great games
games like lair and heavenly sword where bad,



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