Twiggy, PushSquare.com: "I've been sat here pondering on a topic for today's Opinionator for a couple of days now. While I was going to talk about Killzone's irritating emphasis on terrible characters, I've decided a discussion on E3 would be ever more prevalent, particularly with Sony's superman John Koller claiming it to be the most important conference in 11 years for Sony. I'm still yet to be convinced that blockbuster games equal mainstream hardware sales, but I am convinced that blockbuster games will equate to niche hardware sales - the niche being us, the gamers, who cannot stand to go without. And that's exactly why I think E3 2009 could be a turning point in perception for the Playstation 3."
A balancing argument on why Sony's E3 2009 conference could provide the turning point for gamer's perception on the Playstation range, concluding in:
"Instead of those in the loop questioning what Sony don't have, they'll be questioning what THEY don't have - a Playstation 3, PSP and access to all the quality content that Sony have in the pipeline."
So...i guess the big three this year ,are going show something big.
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Building hype for sony!!! hmmm, reporters doesnt learn and doesn't tire of the same thing. The didnt learn about killzone overhype failure, a perfect example. As i said once, building too much hype can cause the opposite effect on the buyer, from a possible inversion into be scare from investing on console or game. Let the time account the announcements, news or success, and not mediocre articles with out solid proof of anything. Remember E3 last year, nobody saw what MS did, did MS build overhype? NO. Lack of information isnt equal to lack of titles, marketing or capacity. Most game reporters dont even know what they're talking about, the just comment in base of popular thinking. If they really knew whats incoming, the story would be a hell different.
Being desperate for publishing things without valid sources and solid proof of the statements of a report, only cause misconception in potential buyers, and puts them far away of the possibility of investment. i said the killzone 2 was an example, sony reliaed in onlline marketing and hype, but didnt work to create a true scenario of a great incoming game, the decition to let reporters and game websites to manage marketing and hype for the game failed to capture investment. Buyers need evidence and proof, not hanging words on articles and reports. Killzone is a great game but is Sony's own fault for the failure in sales. A game like it, could have sold over 4M and not 1.1M(officially confirmed up to now).
Let the gamers decide, what will be great or not, not reports or articles, building hype from air, so then when deception comes, they go fast an tell Sony lied, and they are sad cuz didnt see this didn see that, it wasnt announced, for Christ sake, if game media creates such conception then they should accept they role on failure and not acuse companies.
Game media, every day talk about PS3 price drop, then when that comes, it will be ablow to MS, they tell it will come next mon th, gamers react waiting for this, then sony said that don't plan a ps3 price cut, then gamers are in deception, whos fault is? Game media. They have been fucxing with the price drop the entire year 2008 and up to now mid 2009. They dont realize they are hurting Sony, when they build hype only to get deceptions on a never ending cycle up to now, and it will continue cuz my opinion doesnt matter a sh!t.
My advise, wait for official announcements, not buggy articles.
I did read it. It said nothing, only possible scenarios, that if they fail will bring more deception to sony fans.
@KionicWarlord222, yeh Halo was hyped, but it was hyped in both fronts, with proof of the game concept directly arriving to thegamer not by comments or articles, that how Killzone, was supposed to be marketed but it didnt.
This E3, I expect Sony to do the same again and show some gameplay footage of GOW3.
I expect MS to show off some exclusives aswell(1 or 2) because it really looks like they need it.
If Sony gives the PS3 a price cut and improves its marketing, the console can defenitly start to outsell the xbox360 again in North America. But again, Sony never seems to learn the "marketing" part.
and then, we SHOULD all ignore this irrelevant thread until a few months after E3....then we will know if it really was a turning point!
get2sammyb: your trying to hard! especially with the attck and defense of whats obviously your blog.
c'mon, when is this site going to be renamed b4g(blogs4gamers)?