Gamezine:
"Ever since NPD released November's console sales, journalists and bloggers have brought their hammer down on Sony.
The question is why? Do you agree with their campaign and do you want more?
Last year we reported on the fact that sales of the PlayStation 3 in November were actually down compared to the same time in 2007. This was despite a month on month growth for the console in both the United States and worldwide.
You might have pointed towards the economic climate, but when compared to both Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintento's Wii, whose sales were up, Sony didn't appear to have a legitimate excuse.
O.K., it's reasonable to question Sony on this. Why are sales down in the U.S. in November? What actually happened in the media was worse."
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.
Totally ridiculous comment.
The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.
Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.
Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.
And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.
You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.
"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."
Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.
They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.
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Exactly why most people who pay attention think the gamer journalists are a joke.
Its just like me or you writing our opinions. We probably know more about games than them... only difference is we do it because we love it and they get a paycheck.
I was really impressed with this article. The author did a great job of pointing out the absurdities in the "Sony/PS3 is doomed!" articles through his own words and those of other [read: rant]. I agree that it is absurd to believe that MS is outright paying for these articles directly, but they really do seem to be the main beneficiary (even Nintendo is usually left out on the internets). It is sadly unfair to Sony for this to be going on, but the best they can do is to keep chugging along and trying to pick up steam with great exclusives, features, and advertising. To me, the PS3 still has the most room to grow out of the big 3, and I would expect we will be seeing this growth over the next 2-5 years.
Who would of thought Sony needed saving....not me.
People write this stuff up and everyone eats it up.
Whenever we see articles, such as:
"This is Sony's Year",
"This is why Sony will win (Insert Year)"
"This (Insert Game) will kill off the competition."
"This (Insert Game) is death to (Insert competitors console here)"
Everyone rejoice and we see Gamelist list all over the place. Again, the same type of articles that feed trolls and get fanboys amped up, about the justification for thier purchase, are them same articles that would suggest, Sony PS3/PSP must need saving. As if, Sony must win soemthing to make it fanbase feel good.
At the end of the day it's all opinions on games, while the real business makers care about the numbers.
I wonder what the headlines will read then. I honestly could care one way or the other; however, I personally believe that the PS3 by far DESERVES to outsell the 360 10-fold. We see no articles from these big companies regarding the innovation, dedication, and most importantly IMPROVEMENT that the PS3 has made since its inception into this generation of consoles. No console is without its faults...hell NOTHING is without its faults. (Only that lizard with the funny collar around its neck can walk on water these days). My point is that Sony as a company has humbled themselves by attempting to gain the respect of gamers and they are being spat in the face by many journalists. Fortunately, Sony is used to overcoming this biased obstacle. GAME ON!!
...it all comes down to either Microsoft having writers working for them or bootleg sites trying to get traffic. That's IT.
There is absolutely no logical reason for people to say Sony is going down, no reason that cannot also be used for the 360.
Microsoft's headstart, over-advertising, 3rd party buy-outs and corrupt writing staff won't stop the Sony train.
Watch and see.
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