Remember the hilariously bad PlayStation VR demo that Sony showed off at PSX last year? Well according to Sony’s Richard Marks it was due to a "hardware failure."
Sony’s PS5 era has generated over $13 billion in profits, surpassing the combined earnings of PS1–PS4, with $136 billion in sales.
Their recent Playstation revenue is also more than Xbox and Switch combined, obviously in large part due to 3rd party sales.
I mean, if Sony is keeping third parties happy, kind of feels like a winning method.
Kinda always been that way if you look at previous gens, exclusives are important but they aint the main revenue generator.
And this is why the game output for ps5 has been a tad slower…
1) they needed to be… games take longer to develop, and they’d burn out their teams trying to maintain the same pace as ps3.
2) they can afford to… games cost more than ever to push boundaries, so Sony had to figure out a way to match Xbox’s clever profit strategies in order to afford to continue to innovate and take risks.
The tour is coming to the states as new dates have been revealed.
Marathon was slated to launch on Sept. 23, 2025 across Xbox, PC, and PlayStation, but Bungie will share the new release date in the fall.
Yeah, you can delay it as much as you want but you ain’t gonna wash that stink off.
It will lessen though and possibly make all the difference if it launches in a state that rectified a lot of the issues people had with it. A LOT of ifs of course.
If you really gotta play ... play the better extraction shooter this year : ARC Raiders
Delaying the inevitable. Bungie hoping the negative publicity will blow over. 🙄
They can't cancel it until a themed controller has been released first... like concord.
If they were absolutely certain about the quality of Marathon, then they had not delayed it just now.
So they've basically just confirmed what everyone, well, a lot of people saw: Marathon is not ready yet, still no soul to be seen.
"Doubling down on the Marathon Universe"
They're doubling down on soul, thank goodness this feedback illuminated that for them...
and N4G was littered with comments like : Marathon looks really good, maybe you're a hater and the likes blah blah ... especially under articles which compared it with Arc Raiders ....
Flamebait title. Not surprised as to the source.
It was fairly obvious what happened. But I didn't hold it against Dr Marks because I've seen him and Anton Michailov do excellent presentations.
Ps2 eyetoy
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
PS3 tech demo (2:25 in)
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
PS move tech demo
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Ign tech demo
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Jimmy Fallon(couldn't find a good YouTube one)
www.ebaumsworld.com/video/wat ch/83666771/
Just because they messed up one time doesn't negate all the successful demos they have done over the years. Dr Marks doesn't seem to be a man who tries to mislead you with actors and misleading speak. He seems down to earth. And I always respected him for that.
And judging by what others have actually PLAYED of PSVR, and that's developers, journalists and gamers, his misstep was more of a "just got to laugh it off because sh*t happens" kind of thing. Uncharted glitched at E3. Don't see anyone holding it against Naughty Dog for it. Dr Marks even poked fun at himself at Vision Unity 2016.
It wasn't a big deal for the fans. Only the haters looking for VR to fail and make a mountain out of it.
Software failure = meh, it can be quickly fixed.
Hardware failure = uh oh...
That is like Xbox or Playstation showing off their next console and and it overheating during a demo... hopefully they can resolve the issue and not push the hardware too much
Hardware failure is never a good thing. I hope they get that fixed and tested thoroughly before the E3 and the launch of PSVR.