Simon Jeffery of Sega USA commented that he expects the PS2 will still sell in its mega millions during 2007 and perhaps even 2008. He also believed that the PS2 can compete with 'next-gen' consoles as it is more something that will sit in the kids bedroom as opposed to on a HDTV in the living room.
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Sony's PlayStation2 is now six years old, yet it's still going strong. How do you explain this?
The PS2's very large user base is partly the reason. It's also that Sony is still actively building, promoting, and selling the PS2. At its current price-we expect another price cut in the not-too-distant future-we believe the PS2 in November-December next year probably has the capacity to sell more than any other format. We think the PS2 will actively be sold for another two holiday seasons (2007 and 2008) and will continue to sell millions of units.
Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …
The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.
Sorry but i couldn't care less, Deliver us Mars was as woke game as they come, climate change disaster, all female cast plus only a comic relief indian guy (it takes only 5 minutes into the game for the main female character to say how smart she is compared to the guy), evil white guys, ugly females, then add generic gameplay and puzzles (how many times do you have to cut things with a laser for gods sake), you can't change anything in how the events develop so 0 agency in the story, sub par graphics even while using UE4. So well, go woke go broke, that's how it works.
That stinks but with a 68 average critic rating on their games probably made it difficult for people to invest considering there is a bloat of games getting made these days.
Mat Piscatella of analyst firm Circana has revealed that the PS5 was the market leader in North America for both unit and dollar sales during not only March 2024, but the first quarter of the year as a whole.
Writing on Twitter, Piscatella revealed that spending for video game hardware in February 2024 dropped 32% in comparison to the same period last year, totalling $391 million. In addition, spending for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch each fell a minimum of 30% year-on-year.
But PS5 and Switch still outsells XBOX embarrassingly even with overall consoles sales decline.
Najam from eXputer: "The norm of $60 AAA games is no more as developers now charge more for their games. Here's why this might not be a bad thing for gamers."
*Elden Ring type games, yeah sure. (scoring 8+)
(AAA/quadruple A) slop can shove it up their discounted ass
In recent yrs my purchasing In Indies has increased and its decreased for major IP's because I cba with the lack of innovative gameplay.
Focusing on the topic, why not mention Take-Two CEO getting his pay increased while axing 500 staff? I'm getting annoyed that those practices get ignored by the "gaming" media because ya don't want to burn potential bridges but seriously, gtfo.
It's a bad thing for gamers and for in the chair game devs. We just heard of massive layoffs across the industry.
I'd pay more if I read articles about how they were hiring. I'd pay more if I read articles about how the people who made the game scored record setting pay raises and CEOs were no longer given 1 year bonuses that could sustain a small studio for 10 years.
But that's not what happened.
Yeah there's only so much people are willing to pay for entertainment. Especially in the form of games at the same time that there are free to play games and cheaper in the titles that compete with triple A. You're not going to be able to keep increasing pricing and get the same amount of sales. I already don't buy games at the new price or even at $60. I wait for $40 or less. And I don't believe I'm alone in that department. If you don't have any other expenses you can probably continue to afford buying games at the top price but many people eventually have other things that take priority and you're just not going to spend it that much money on a video game.
Heck if I have to play one game for the rest of my life I'd probably end up playing Warframe or Counter-Strike. These are all either free games or were paid games and now are free.
The AAA industry is a threat to the gaming industry. They're trying to continue to ride the way and keep increasing prices. They're trying to get all of the money as long as they're able to.
It's bad. People just want good games at decent prices. Not everything has to be super realistic with 200 voice actors. Look at Palworld.
The way I see it is, the Ps3 doesnt really have to succeed, the PS2 is still a PlayStation product therefore bringing alot of profit to Sony. It may kill all PS3's business but Sony is still taking some of the market.
will be replacing their worn out PS2 with a new one. That will account for a lot of the sales. A lot of people will also be buying them as secondary units to put in places like vacation homes and RV's. The same thing happened when the redesigned PSOne was released.
Kage, PS2 can't carry the Sony brand forever. At some point PS3 has to take over, and the sooner that happens, the better. The longer PS2 is on the market for a lower price and with more games and developers continue to support it, PS3 is going to be slow to reach critical mass. With the huge sales leads that 360 and Wii have on PS3, keeping the PS2 in production is going to contribute heavily to the death of PS3.
PS2 will just warm up for the PS3, in march it will be around 6 mill. PS3 sold world wide if not more and guese it will be around 20 to 25 mill. PS3s sold between march and x-mas 2007, by then Sony will drop The PS2 to boost up the PS3 sells even more cus in that we'll see price drop and many exclusive games out, that way sony will sell millions of bundles in x-mas 2007 (MGS4 Bundle, FF13 maybe and many more) Sony is a one smart company.
yes the sales of the PS2 are still very good, but that doesn't mean Sony can afford to lower the price on the PS3 since right now they are currently making only $8 dollars on every PS2 sold according to the latest figures I saw....but they are already losing $241.35 on every PS3 sold...
http://www.engadget.com/200...
-so I wouldn't expect a price drop anytime soon, Sony invest BIG TIME in the PS3 and they need to sell alot of PS2 just at to equal their losses on PS3, I have no doubt that Sony is please with sales of PS2 because it is help their overall bottom line in the market, but trust me even Sony would much rather sales pick up on PS3 because even though they will lose money on the front end, the PS3 is the key to their future success in the industry....and they need a large "next gen" fanbase to keep dev support and thus make recoup their losses from game sales.
BTW, orginal xbox never made a profit, but of course M$ was the new guy among 2 giants in the industry and they had the kind of money it takes to "get your foot in the door", if ya know what I mean.
It's so 2004!