Ben Kuchera of PAR writes: "The video game industry is competitive, and you often have to be willing to lose vast amounts of money before you begin to turn a profit. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all have different strategies to deal with this reality, but Sony is in a uniquely poor position heading into this holiday season and may have already all but given up on the PlayStation 3. Of the three companies that are creating and marketing gaming consoles, Sony has the most challenges heading into the next generation.
Let’s dive into what Sony has to overcome in order to gain dominance in 2013."
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
Sea of Thieves is the first Rare-developed game to launch for a PlayStation console, and Sony was heavily involved in helping the studio bring the swashbuckling pirate romp to its flagship console.
Out of curiosity could any of these ms games going to ps5 have been leaked by Sony themselves? Not Sony but someone at Sony
sony isn't about to let some console wars get in the way of trying to make microsoft become a third party dev by showing them that they make more money with them than without them. of course with that in mind they'd help them. it's also doubly so because microsoft are bringing what is considered a popular game over that can also make sony money
Nice.
Still don't want it though.
Tell me Killer Instinct is coming to PS5 and then we'll talk.
"All signs point to the hardware becoming less and less important to Microsoft."
Less innovation and competition. People act like if MS went away life would be better but it would just mean you have one less choice as to where to spend your money. If Sony became the defacto home console provider and Nintendo the handheld, then these companies could limit what you get and you would ultimately have very little choice but to support them if you want to play games.
I was a video that suggested that Steam could potentially get into the console market if Xbox ceases to exist. They already had the Steam Machine(?), and they have the Steam Deck for the portable market. I’m not in the pc space at all so I wouldn’t know if that would be a realistic statement.
No Xbox future I am going to guess Microsoft will go down the path Sega choose and be a publisher/game developer with their in house studios. Or sell off their in house studios and just go back to making os for PC's. I highly doubt the second part. Microsoft like any company wants to make money. So if Microsoft did say pull the plug on Xbox I see them going down the path Sega went. And utilize Xbox as a brand and not just as a console. I can see the name of XBox being mainly a brand after that. And maybe with the game you see published by or developed by Xbox studios.
This dude really bugs me. Somehow, he's a business analyst. Only problem is he's not objective in the slightest (never mind not qualified either). It's doom and gloom. It's Sony spin. It's "Games perform better on Microsoft hardware". Yeah...in 2008. I wish more of the "journalists" would step into 2012 and report accordingly. Somehow, the opinion of a disgruntled ex-employee is news worthy. A $269 PS3 bundle isn't priced to compete with a 8GB, $300 Wii U or $400 360 Halo 4 bundle. Wha?! Ben, gimme the crystal ball you're looking into so I could pull the PowerBall numbers.
Well if they are in any trouble & keep pumping out games like they are, ill be there to buy em.. I doubt they would buy multi million dollar businesses & provide so much software if there were.. I got enough juice out of my PS3 & cant wait for the nx gen beast..
Sony is in trouble that much is known as the company lacks the ability to make money, but that seems to be changing and from reports it seems the company as a whole can see profit in 2014 I do believe.
I'm a strong believer in the market will correct itself and if Sony isn't capable of being a viable company they will fall themselves.
Another article trying to focus on how much trouble Sony is in. This is about thousandth article trying to say exactly what we have been hearing for months now. Sony is in financial trouble and they are attempting to fix it.But we have to hear it a thousand different ways while people on gaming sites try to pretend that they are more concerned about what is happening to Sony more then everyone else is. Sony is the one fighting to keep their company and all that they worked for and as usual people try to make it all about them. If they go down what do we lose? A few of their products? Their movies? Their music? And yet people constantly cry about how serious this is as if it is them who is going to lose if Sony dies. I don't want Sony to go down either but it is them who have the most to lose out of this, not us.So just waiting for the thousandth and one article trying to say 'Sony's in trouble'.
Looks like it is 2007 once again. Sony\Playstation is DOOMED!!!! Nice try but I am not going to click on the link and give you a it.