"Ken Kutaragi saw what we had and said lets jointly market a single games console – The Sega/Sony hardware system."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
I was big SEGA fanboy, if they used the N64 chip with a CD they could have dominated, but it was that Japanese arrogance that proved their downfall(same thing we see now from Iwata and co..).
If Sony didn't trust their western influence in the form of american savvy Kaz and the big talent pool in the 1st party studios they would have been out of the games business.
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“We knew that Sega’s heart and soul wasn't behind Saturn. It was very much a gap product that they were trying to use to spoil the introduction of Sony..."
I feel MS and Nintendo are doing this with the XB1 and WiiU, they cant just cancel everything so they will ride things out for 3-4 years and start another generation early. they will not let Sony keep a big lead all themselves.
Great read. Love reading about the history of the medium. Especially from two vets who are so candid.
I loved (still do) Sega. They gave me most of my youths gaming memories. I had to own a hedgehog when I was young and named him Sonic of course. I loved living throught the nineties, it was the real fanboy wars back then. when no one knew stats or technical terms and jut judged off games and having fun. Theres so much politics in gaming consumers these days. I don't mind of course but I enjoyed my Genesis and earlier gamer years.