GameSpot journalist Kyle Orland shares his opinion on the PSN's new gaming service, Qore:
"When a console maker and a publishing house get together to create an "official" editorial product, the result usually straddles the fuzzy line between editorial independence and official access. Even if the actual content is fair and duly critical of the licensing company, there's still the problem of perception. Without clear lines of division between promotion and editorial, readers might well wonder where the "official" part of the title ends and the independent voice of the editors begins.
This fuzzy line gets even fuzzier with Qore, a first-of-its-kind downloadable "interactive" magazine for the PlayStation 3. Qore is created by Future Publishing (the house behind all three "official" console magazines) but "presented by the PlayStation Network," making for a product that is a confusing hybrid of advertising and editorial that often ends up feeling more like the former than the latter."
With this April episode, Qore concludes its run on the PlayStation Network.
Today on the PlayStation Blog , it was revealed that April 2012's edition of Qore would be the last issue released.
Good that whole thing was a waste in a poorly put together package.
They should just focus on putting out smaller individual videos rather than a big downloadable thing thats irritating to use. Making ofs, dev diaries, they could even look to some of the good gaming related series on the net for inspiration.
They could put out little featurettes, lets plays, maybe some reviews. As long as they let them go at it unbiased it would be pretty good. If there could be a show of the caliber of all your history or jon tron's shows.
It would be a relatively cheap way to get people looking at their games and content as easy passive and consumer friendly advertising. Though it would rely on quality content.
It probably would have been more effective if they'd streamed it. A poorly-put together show is nothing. Look at the crap clogging the gaming media today. It's just that no one wants to wait an hour to DOWNLOAD a poor put-together gaming show.
Yep that's honestly why I never watched those. Never wanted to take the time to download.
No way, the money should be spent on developing a sit-com. It stars a Sony Executive and a Microsoft Executive, who have to share an apartment in downtown New York for utterly arbitrary reasons. They are frequently visited by Fanboy, a fickle videogame fan who frequently switches sides completely from one exec to the other, depending on whatever wacky scenario is in play for that episode. Antics ensue.
Clearly, this is a gold-mine. Can I have my million dollars NOW, Sony?
That idea is literally the best thing that could happen to tv today. I'm completely serious. Tv is crap these days and I feel like an old man when I saw I miss the 90's and "when I was younger we had better tv shows." It's just the truth though.
ehhh never really cared for qore, i only watched like 13 mins of a episode. honestly i have n4g to get all my gaming news, trailers, etc from.
PlayStation Blog: Episode 40’s lead story provides an in-depth preview of Insomniac’s Ratchet and Clank: All for One. Jump right into this true 4 player experience that features a brand new co-op mode with tons of those crazy weapons we’ve come to expect. Don’t miss the weapons guide gallery to get a peek at all the gear you’ll want to enjoy when the game drops on October 18th.
Ok, so you guys were saying before because of Qore, we will now have less content on PSN because more will be pushed to the paid subscription . But it's been out for a month, this does not seemed to be the case at all. We are still getting constant stream every thursday and we all know that they can't do a world-beta or else who the hell will buy the SOCOM when it comes out if everyone got bored of it already. The whole point of beta is for dev. to stamp out bugs, it is NOT to satisfy their fans. Most ppl dont seem to understand that. If i am the developer, I would actually try to limit my beta, because I am trying to test the bugs and since the servers are not ready, I am not ready to stress the server..because I know it will crash, so what's the point.
Anyways, just my opinion that Qore is NOT XBL gold or whatever, it's just what it is. a official playstation magazine, will you get propagandas on it? of course, you will probably NEVER see a segment that they bad mouth any game on Qore, but I am sure most ppl will be smart enough to figure things out for themselves.