Sony's PS3 may not be selling like hotcakes as they were at launch because of a lack of first-party titles and franchises, says an analyst at IDC.
Billy Pidgeon's comments came just after NPD's games sales figures, which show healthy sales of both the PS3 and PS2, were released.
"The PlayStation brand doesn't appear to be helping the PS3. If NPD's numbers are correct, there are over 300K PS3s on retails shelves," said Pidgeon to GamesIndustry.biz.
"That is not good for a console launch of only a million, and it's not good for publishers with PS3 software."
He suggested that Sony's sales of the PS3 would be healthier if gamers could look forward to upcoming known franchises; although first-party PS3 games Heavenly sword and Motorsport are coming out soon, Pidgeon said, "They're new and less anticipated."
"Sony needs more must-have first party titles to sell consoles. Gamers know Halo 3 is coming on the Xbox 360, and they can expect Mario on the Wii, but there are no established first party franchises coming to the PS3 except Gran Turismo – and that is delayed."
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
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Grab your katana, and slice your way through this list featuring the best hack and slash games the PlayStation 3 had to offer.
Dante's inferno... an excellent GoW inspired game. So sad the sequels will never be.
heavenly sword was such a short, but amazing game. that game should be prime material to be made into a download only remaster.
I really enjoyed Castlevania, but struggled to get into it again reattempting it a few years back. I still think it does another of things well; story, presentation, level varietily and art style at least. Gameplay maybe has not stood test of time unfortunately which makes it a chore to get through.
I agree, i have me PS3 and am looking foward to great titlesm but as of right now am playing NBA 2K7, and really nothing more, but it's enough to hold me over, for right now. But sony needs to hurry.
with many developers who have the PS3 developing kit, they should be able to come with a game exclucive the this console, e.g. try and imagine Loco Roco on the PS3 fully 3D graphics using the tilt function of the SIXIS.
sony cant afford to sit on their @ss in 2007, the 360 is firmly in number one spot and still selling well, with great games and first party support, its going to be a hard year for sony unless they get some killer games to proove the ps3 is worth the asking price
It's been known for quite some time that both Wii and 360 have more new IPs in development for their systems overall- regardless of 1st or 3rd party.
The question is whether this trend continues... which is looks like it's going to. 360 and PS3 are staying pretty even with trading franchises, and they will continue to do so. Burnout, for example, will be a timed PS3 exclusive going multiplatform (like all the others), as will the next Splinter Cell. And so on...
as long as gamers buy them, but that dosen't seem to be the case for the 360. What was the most popular game at launch CoD2, and they had good games come out, Saints row, dead rising and Gears of war but outside of GOW non of these game had any type of hype or extended press. And now a game that looks like it might sell well is Lost planet. All games that seem to sell well on the 360 platform are shooters, so new ip's dont mean anything if their not being bought.