"It's a race against time," said Hiroshi Kamide, an analyst at KBC Securities who covers the $30 billion video game industry. "They must increase their users or it won't be commercially worthwhile for software makers to support it."
The success of the PlayStation 3 is critical for Sony's fledging earnings recovery and a point of pride for the electronics conglomerate, which has already lost the lead in other key products such as portable music players.
Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era
I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
Their reputation was lost way before that. From the moment Microsoft said they entering the console business, we all knew it would be a downgrade.
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Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.
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Ross Scott—also known as Accursed Farms on YouTube—has been fighting tooth and nail for almost a full year to help spearhead game preservation. Starting after it was announced that Ubisoft's The Crew would be shutting down, permanently ending support for the game, Scott launched the "Stop Killing Games" initiative.
That makes a twofold deadline for the Stop Killing Games initiative. Or, at least, one headed up by Scott: The UK petition, which ends July 14, and the EU Citizens' Initiative, which ends July 3.
If you live in the EU then Please sign this or our game ownership rights and game preservation is
at stake. I know there isnt much time left but please consider signing the petition
People whine and in the end don't do a thing. Then whine more when they get screwed some more smh. If this makes it then it'll be monumental for consumers. That Pirate software guy was no help either smh.
From the mid-1980s to the early part of the 2000s, light gun rail shooters were a staple in both arcade and home system gaming. Arguably, the genre started to really hit its stride in the mid-1990s. While games like Time Crisis, Virtual Cop, and House of the Dead, among others, dominated both the home system and arcade space, some one relegated to only home game systems. Today, we’ll be talking about a little-known cult game published by Sony called Project: Horned Owl. This game was developed by Alfa Systems, and all in all, this is a fun game.
Another stupid propaganda peice...
How many press releases from around the world saying "PS3 shattering records" and "Fastest selling console in history" does there need to be in order for these people to wake up... Jesus, just look at the math.
THE PS3 IS DOING FINE! It's nothing but uphill from here
More games, more updates, more content, more players.
It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some of these quotes are. So if you don't have the installbase, its not worthwhile for developers/publishers to support your machine. Ya know, if you don't score the most goals in a soccer game, you won't win the match. This guy should know that you never talk about the lack of an installbase 6+ months into a console's lifecycle.
PS3 "fabrication" costs are the highest the industry ever seen, it will have to rise a userbase larger then PS2 had to match Wii/360 profitablity ..
In a rough way, every 100 dollars taken away from the retail cost againt the fabrication costs .. is 10 dollars that sony is going to ask per game unit sold for the publishers.
PS3 has between 200-300 dollars in debit .. think how large the install base has to be. That is what he is talking about.
Some info:
- PS2 was 100USD in debit when started.
- Wii is on profit. (Dunno how much.)
- 360 reports range from 100USD debit to 40USD profit.
Games cost 60 .. 30% goes to taxes.. 40 left, sony takes 10-20 .. 30-20 left ..
A game cost roughtly 10-15 million to produce today. 30-50k units per million dollars .. totaling .. 300 to 750k units sold.. just to pay the game .. no profits yet.
Why do some of you get mad when companies say that Sony needs to increase their install base? It only make sense. This is not an attack against Sony, it is obvious. If they don't have enough people to sell their games it will not be worth while for 3rd party developers. Developers love Sony (Specially) the japanese people and they are loyal some of them are even fanboys(kojima) and will do anything to support the console. Why do Metal Gear and Final Fantasy lack a release date? They are waiting for the PS3 install base to go up. These companies to need to make money. Even kojima is no Mell Gibson, eventually if the publisher (i.e. Konami) is not making their ROI because kojima only want to support the console he likes and choose to ignore other consoles regarless of install base, he is going to have to publish his own games.
Well...basically it's common sense. Why would they release a console and not want to increase their install base? Why did they just launch in the rest of the world?
Why does someone make a console!? To get a big install base so they can get good software on it...hmmm maybe