1Up: Sony still isn't prepared to make every one of their high-profile releases available day-and-date online and retail, said PlayStation Network senior director Susan Panico at today's webcasted Morgan Wedbush Morgan Securities New York MAC conference.
SOCOM: Confrontation and Gran Turismo 5: Prologue were two PlayStation 3 releases made available online via PlayStation Network and at retail last year. LittleBigPlanet and Killzone 2, two other PS3 releases, were not.
"One of the things we found, though, was that the Blu-ray disc experience for marquee games like that [LittleBigPlanet] currently just work better because the consumer wants to go in and get that physical product," explained Panico to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. "They want to go in and get the extra goodies that they get on the disc."
There's another reason, though, one we've heard many times before.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
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.
"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.
Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.
Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.
The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.
In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.
Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."
"Feminist Whore" lmao
ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.
its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.
ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.
They're not offensive.
And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!
Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.
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 😱
All Xbox 360 Games are downloadable... Press Agree
Release the game on both disc and online. I've always thought it was the size that restricted the type of game available for d/l.
but games like KZ2 and Resistance should never be DL titles. I'd never want that to be the case. I agree that case by case basis titles should have the option of releasing on The PSN.. I like that companies are supporting it with games that could have been a full retail game but sell less for PSN is released.
Watchmen, NFL Head coach 09, Burnout Paradise, the soon to be released KoF12(/13 dont know these days) Soon to be battle fantaisia and BlazBlue, Tekken:DR, Fatal Inertia EX, Punisher, Oblivion: shiver ilse, and what ever else full Blu ray games from third party studios. plus sony's own offerings,
Warhawk, Wipeout HD, GT5: Prolouge, Socom, Siren, Ratchet:Q4B. There will be more that follows that model i just want the choice if it's possible, because there is always the joy of picking up a game just 10 minutes from your house, breaking the seal, smelling the newness of it and holding the disk while flipping through the booklet and looking at the art and stuff. but there are those times when you want a game but refuse to leave your couch and DL is a great way to do it especially when you are deep in another heavy session of gaming... I'm glad sony provides the options on those select titles they deem worthy. I'd love it if some third party memebers would start doing that with some of there post released games and add a new way market for there games like criterion did with burnout. ^^
But they will get there, i think Sony is doing a fabulous job showing how top properly do Digital distribution of games while maintaining a healthy selection of must own retail games.. awesome job indeed.
that's all I need. :)
You can't trade in a download.
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