"It's a race against time," said Hiroshi Kamide, an analyst at KBC Securities who covers the $30 billion video game industry. "They must increase their users or it won't be commercially worthwhile for software makers to support it."
The success of the PlayStation 3 is critical for Sony's fledging earnings recovery and a point of pride for the electronics conglomerate, which has already lost the lead in other key products such as portable music players.
Game Rant talked to Suda51 about a potential sequel to Shadows of the Damned, and here's what he had to say.
Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher developer CD Projekt hosted its fiscal year 2023 earnings conference, and provided details about its games and business alongside comments on the use of generative AI and licensing its IPs for mobile games.
Though this news in a way should be good new trilogy making cash taking a break from cyberpunk and all that i would like to reminded everyone that the new cdpr is pro esg. There focus going forward is to make games for everyone so the next witcher will have less everything watch the swearing/blood be political the main character might just be a woman that is trans lesbian perhaps likes dogs who knows.
see video cfo cdpr there new esg vision
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I am a witcher fan enjoyed cyberpunk but i know the old devs are all gone the people that made red engine are all gone so this is a new team with a new visions under the esg the same esg that looks at a company like sweet baby as visionaries.
So take this news with a grain of salt as the chance of witcher 3 magic again is very low seeing how starfield removed gore to appease the masses and we are gun ho with live service. We will see what this looks like but keep your expectations low.
I mean remember how netflix wither is being handled though yes more on that teams side than cdpr but yikes.
I will leave rebel wolves site they are made up from former cdpr devs
https://rebel-wolves.com/
Though still hush hush on there new rpg.
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
Loved the RPGs but never played the others. Have to track them down. Still not sure about Snow Day though.
Another stupid propaganda peice...
How many press releases from around the world saying "PS3 shattering records" and "Fastest selling console in history" does there need to be in order for these people to wake up... Jesus, just look at the math.
THE PS3 IS DOING FINE! It's nothing but uphill from here
More games, more updates, more content, more players.
It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some of these quotes are. So if you don't have the installbase, its not worthwhile for developers/publishers to support your machine. Ya know, if you don't score the most goals in a soccer game, you won't win the match. This guy should know that you never talk about the lack of an installbase 6+ months into a console's lifecycle.
PS3 "fabrication" costs are the highest the industry ever seen, it will have to rise a userbase larger then PS2 had to match Wii/360 profitablity ..
In a rough way, every 100 dollars taken away from the retail cost againt the fabrication costs .. is 10 dollars that sony is going to ask per game unit sold for the publishers.
PS3 has between 200-300 dollars in debit .. think how large the install base has to be. That is what he is talking about.
Some info:
- PS2 was 100USD in debit when started.
- Wii is on profit. (Dunno how much.)
- 360 reports range from 100USD debit to 40USD profit.
Games cost 60 .. 30% goes to taxes.. 40 left, sony takes 10-20 .. 30-20 left ..
A game cost roughtly 10-15 million to produce today. 30-50k units per million dollars .. totaling .. 300 to 750k units sold.. just to pay the game .. no profits yet.
Why do some of you get mad when companies say that Sony needs to increase their install base? It only make sense. This is not an attack against Sony, it is obvious. If they don't have enough people to sell their games it will not be worth while for 3rd party developers. Developers love Sony (Specially) the japanese people and they are loyal some of them are even fanboys(kojima) and will do anything to support the console. Why do Metal Gear and Final Fantasy lack a release date? They are waiting for the PS3 install base to go up. These companies to need to make money. Even kojima is no Mell Gibson, eventually if the publisher (i.e. Konami) is not making their ROI because kojima only want to support the console he likes and choose to ignore other consoles regarless of install base, he is going to have to publish his own games.
Well...basically it's common sense. Why would they release a console and not want to increase their install base? Why did they just launch in the rest of the world?
Why does someone make a console!? To get a big install base so they can get good software on it...hmmm maybe