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Sony pressed to step up in console war

Walkman music players down 10 per cent, Handycam video cameras down 15 per cent, Bravia televisions flat at 15m screens – the message from Sony's unit sales forecasts is that, this year, market share is to be sacrificed for the sake of profitability.

Yet there was one exception. Shipments of the PlayStation 3 video game console are expected to rise 29 per cent to 13m

interrergator5255d ago

they better i mean i want to see some competition not sit there release games (not marketing) and not sell well. sony step your game on.

Naucious5255d ago

another one of these lame articles huh?? man nothing better to post N4g? well ill play ur game... Sony is going nowhere get use to it...

ignorance is a disease that cant be cured but can be treated but i dont know with these journalists. lol

Daz5255d ago

DOnt care about console war :P

I just enjoy the game everyone brings out.

ultimolu5255d ago

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9...

They're not doomed.

Even Sanyo is having problems of their own.

Crystallis5255d ago

And people were talking about the ps3 being Sony's last console. They see the potential in the gaming industry and they haven't forgotten about the PS and the PS2 and how successful they were. Sony will never leave the gaming industry.

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5 Of the Most Unlikeable Video Game Protagonists

There are good video game protagonists, and there are bad video game protagonists.

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GhostScholar3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I disagree that max is unlikable. Chloe is infinitely more unlikable in my opinion.

gold_drake2d ago

omg chloe was awful. i really hated her at the end haha

Cacabunga2d ago

Abby was absolute trash protagonist in every way..
Tidus was so meh to me..
On villain side, the one i didn’t like wa Micah, because they wanted him to be that way and it was brilliant👍🏽

Rancegamerx2d ago

I agree, I liked Max, Chloe was a horrible friend and a bad influence.

Cacabunga2d ago

Everyone agrees on chloe, I’m sure even ND do.

H92d ago

Both are horrible, granted Chloe is infinitely worse, it feels like Chloe is just fanservice for people who too over the edge and wasn't written to be a character that makes sense

MrChow6662d ago

exactly I was expecting it to be a the top of the list

ravens522d ago

Ye I was expecting her too. Guess they actually played the game. Unlike you and whoever agrees.

gpimlott1d 18h ago

I played through the whole game and think she is one of the worst character Ive ever played as

ravens521d 16h ago (Edited 1d 16h ago )

gpimlott. How?

Christopher2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

She's actually not bad. It's the writing itself that is bad overall, but she's fine overall. She's no worse than Miles Morales IMHO. Both thrust into a spotlight and receiving both praise and blame and dealing with it.

Forspoken is a bland game because it's 75% bland, boring, repetitive going through the motions and diversions that add nothing of the value with purposefully gated memory moments that don't feel organic or like you're discovering things but waiting for others to reveal things.

ravens522d ago

Exactly Chris. Even though I liked the game. I kno u played it. People who actually played it and went thru her dream saw she was a good likeable person who really just acted out due to being alone and unloved. I think your problem is it was open world, I think if it was more linear you may have liked it better.

savedsynner2d ago

Oh no she's bad. Very unlikable even before you add on the bad dialogue. The game could have been quite good with a good protagonist

ravens521d 21h ago

For all the people like synner. Shes actually half white lol. Inferior complexity is a hell of a thing. You'll be ok.

Nerdmaster2d ago

Most of these aren't even that bad. Especially comparing to others like Squall "Whatever" Leonhart, Forspoken's Frey, and the guy from Atomic Heart.

-Foxtrot2d ago

Squall is one of the best developed main FF characters so...

People talk about his "whatever" thing thats at the start of the game, not the character he eventually becomes in the end.

Nerdmaster2d ago

No amount of "character development", (especially the ones that for me feels sudden and undeserved like Squall's), will justify him being a d**k to my girl Quistis. Even if he found the cure for cancer, from that moment on, I would never like him.
The article is about being unlikeable, and he was indeed unlikeable for at least half of the game.

BrainSyphoned2d ago

Squall is the best protagonists in FF so you can go whatever yourself.

H92d ago

My good sir, I need to steal that "you can go whatever yourself" because it's gold