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What Can Sony Do To Keep The PS4 Hype Train Rolling Along?

The gaming world is all enchanted with the PS4, but what can Sony do to keep that excitement high after Microsoft makes its play? Business strategy needed!

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alousow4062d ago

the hype going keep rolling untill ppl get their hands on it

NewMonday4062d ago (Edited 4062d ago )

GDC will have a PS4 presentation, but mostly to elaborate what was already announced, don't think Sony will do much more until MS play their hand, right now they will be happy to hog the media spotlight.

xxLuckyStrike4062d ago

Yep they gotta wait N see what M$ has planned then scury back and put something similar together. So far Sony gots Nintendo covered with Move DS4 and Vita, Kinect with they new Kinectish looking rig+DS4. But what about illumiroom... and other unannounced features yikes

xc7x4062d ago

let Playstation owners watch Microsoft's next gen reveal live to show thier confidence in PS4?

MysticStrummer4062d ago

I picture the experimental technique used on Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange.

xxLuckyStrike4062d ago

Unveil the actual console so Sony fanboys have something to worship to at night

MysticStrummer4062d ago (Edited 4062d ago )

You need to include a substantial number of former MS fanboys in that statement if my group of gaming friends is any indication. I know a bunch of people who won't be giving their business to MS again.

OT - To maintain the hype, all Sony needs to do is release a little info at a time throughout the year, assuming it's info people like of course. A good chunk of that info needs to be about titles that will be available at launch or soon after. E3 needs to be fairly strong on PS4 info but also plenty of PS3 info. Of course no matter what Sony does, the usual N4G suspects will claim the PS4 is either the second coming of Christ or the final failed product of a dying company.

Bumpmapping4061d ago (Edited 4061d ago )

E3 is not even here yet the train ain't stopping any time soon!

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Strike gold with Richman 11 on Xbox, PlayStation and PC

Richman 11 is the latest edition of the Richman series to land on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation and PC

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Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse Ep2: Caged releases on PC and console

Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse Ep2: Caged is the follow-up to 2019's Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning.

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LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down 'Indefinitely,' Sony Confirms

Sony has confirmed that LittleBigPlanet 3 servers on PlayStation 4 will remain offline “indefinitely” following troubles with the service from earlier this year.

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rlow110h ago

Sad day, hopefully they’ll allow a third party server solution. Goes to show game preservation is an uphill battle.

blackblades2h ago

Sad day oh wait everyone that whining about it didn't play it or haven't played it in years and never was going back to it. Funny how people start to care when this happens but when it was actually up those same people didn't even pay attention to it.

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just_looken5h ago

What needs to be highlighted by this is that the series has had 4 main games then that go kart spin off yet sony let them all die.

There is 0 games like this on ps5 and to my knowledge 0 first party main kids games no tech demo crap

Sony purchased Media Molecule studio the ip then tossed it away letting it rot for over 7 years yet the community carried on until now were we have lost 16 years on all games of content along with no replacement.

Everyone goes on about ea killing studios but sony has killed way way more but its fine its sony they can do no wrong.

Before the sony blidboys track me down again go fire up your holy boxes all the dlc they tossed out all the trophies and all the user content needs a server side handshake that no longer works. Yes offline single player version 1.0 works but that is it.

Media Molecule was not cut i know but they only made LBP and dreams it was reported they just missed the chopping block
https://gamerant.com/little...

Do not forget the dreams game was tossed out 2020 but 3 years later support was pulled
https://www.digitaltrends.c...

All in all this is another failure at sony on a long long list in the past 10 years

Inverno4h ago

It's kind of hard to disagree when SONY has a history of abandoning many of their IPs. They killed Mod Nation and turnt it into LBP Karting because of brand recognition but left it to die too. They made their own Smash Bros only to rush the studio, and turn the game into an advert for recent release at the time and still let it die. They shut down PS Home for more or less the same reason, they left it to rott till it became too broken and exploited to bother fixing.

just_looken1h ago

This right here

Playstation home is what facebook is trying to make now but in vr that metaverse deal

Imagine if sony kept up ps home development

The death of playstation forums was also a huge loss

u-bEttA-rUn3h ago

Their games were unable to attract the masses every game that came out the attachment grew smaller and smaller they advertise LBP for years the industry changed and then came fortnight... You want Sony to continue to support them which cost them money that they're not getting back from the studio.

DOMination-18m ago

Honestly, I think a well-designed LBP-style game would do better than ever in the current state of the industry.

People have short attention spans. Having something that is pick up, play a few levels and put down again is the experience the "masses" are after.

Keep it as a 2D platformer only with well-designed base levels, make it easy to build new levels and more importantly easy to access new content - personally I always found the way Forze Horizon 4&5 provide daily, weekly and monthly challenges via new content that they've built or handpicked from the community is a system that works great - and then stick it on mobile and PC with Steam Deck support.

Make it F2P with a one-off fee for the level editor (to stop people spamming crap onto the store) and have MTX for more characters, outfits etc. and there you have a live service game that Sony should be all over.

Do the same with a new Karting game and a 2D fighting/Smash Bros style engine and you have three bangers right there.

(I appreciate the N4G community will hate the idea of LBP being a live service game with MTX and I get that but I think if there's one game this model could work well for, it's this.. just imo)

Tacoboto4h ago

I feel bad for Media Molecule. For the ideas they have it seems they need a publisher that supports games like this and Dreams especially for as many players as possible.

DOMination-33m ago

Sony in the Andrew House era did support them massively though. They let them do their thing with LBP and spent millions marketing it. I remember one E3 they even used LBP to cover the boring parts of the presentation where they talk about sales figures etc.

And then they allowed MM to announce their game on the PS4 console announcement/showcase event and waited the entire generation for them to release it.

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