Japan's development community shared anonymous thoughts on the PlayStation 3 in the latest issue of Japan's Ge-Maga. The magazine asked developers throughout the nation a number of questions regarding Sony's next generation platform. While the number of responses was not revealed, Ge-Maga is pretty well-connected (name changes aside, Ge-Maga is the oldest videogame magazine in Japan), so we're going to assume the survey reached a good portion of Japan's development community.
Of course, the big question concerned price. 90.29% of the surveyed feel the PS3 is too pricey, compared to just 9.71% who feel that it's priced just right. One developer commented, "It's more expensive than my rent."
In the annals of Mortal Kombat history, Stryker stands out not for his prominence but for his successive series of blunders and near-misses.
Will focus on "art, merch, and more".
Naughty Dog has announced it'll be celebrating The Last of Us Day - its annual hat tip to the community - again this year, but has warned fans not to expect any game or TV show news.
Is that multiplayer EVER going to drop? Like good lord... I love Naughty Dog so much, they're definitely in my top 5, if not top 3 developers. At this point, it's just getting ridiculous though. There's never even been a trailer for it, right? What the heck is going on with that? Just kind of baffled by the lack of info because I was looking forward to that quite a bit before Last of Us 2 even dropped.
Last gen, 2 years after the PS4 released we had Uncharted 4 but we didn't get a new IP from them.
3 years after the PS5 dropped and we've had nothing new from NaughtyDog and still no sign of a new IP just a remake we really didn't need.
The only thing we know is coming is an online focused multiplayer game and while Factions was a great addition to the original TLOU it's not like any of us wanted a full on multiplayer game spin off to take time away from other things. We could have at least had a reveal trailer of their new IP by now by their second team if the focus wasn't so split.
Feels like they care more about the TV show, it's all they ever talk about even with the writers / actors strike going on.
Goes to show how boring this gen will turn out everyone's talking forever to craft their graphical masterpiece that the generation will be over by the time the next hitters come out
starting to get fairly fed up with all the lack of communication from 1st party. Even when the last of us started its hype was more interesting, showing the ants etc and no one knew what the game was about.
Being totally in the dark is much worse
"Just kind of baffled by the lack of info because I was looking forward to that quite a bit before Last of Us 2 even dropped."
Looks like the rumors surrounding that game been in development hell are accurate.
This makes for really interesting reading, it does show that the Japanese are just as frustrated as the rest of the world.
nobody likes the PS3 price, except Sony CEO's.
I live in central Oklahoma, and my rent is about the same as a PS3, so how cheap is it to live in Japan?????
90.29% of the surveyed feel the PS3 is too pricey, compared to just 9.71% who feel that it's priced just right. One developer commented, "It's more expensive than my rent."
WHOW 90% THINK IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE.
For sure even Japanese will not get the PSZero. Or they will get a Wii or maybe a 360 if the strange Japanese games will arrive. They don't get horney from Gears of War, only from strange games with little childeren sexually abused.
Well as long as Wii will be big in Japan, let 360 have the rest of the world then
but they flock to the Kojima quotes (a few stories up) and go ape-shiit about how grea the PS3 will be.
The question is this - if $600 in the US is going to curtain demand significantly after the launch sell-out, and if the Japanese say by 9-to-1 ratio that it is too expensive for what it does, how exactly does Sony overcome this? Europe? I haven't seen too many people happy about the ADDITIONAL premium they will be charged to own the PS3 (over and above the Japanese and US markets).
I think Wii is going to storm the Japanese market (it has the potential to cater to the wierd Japanese gaming tastes and the price and the buzz to make the PS3's Japanese launch very disappointing for Sony). I think Microsoft remains a very distant third in Japan (mainly because the Japanese have proven themselves to be zealot-like ideologues that refuse to support an "american" offerign in what they perceive to be a 'Japanese' industry. It does no good to argur that point, because basicaly the Japanese have spoken with their wallets - they don't do American.
Sony and Microsoft will battle it out to a near stalemate this time around. The overall console market is going to SHRINK NOT GROW this generation - think about it, 'hardcore' gamers make up about 35-40% of the total videogame market - these are the only people who will even think about upgrading their systems now. That group is very split between the two camps. Sony dominated the "casual" gamer market with PS2, but that market does not come into play for the new consoles until after a few price breaks.
Bottom line - a 'draw' is as good as a 'win' to either Nintendo or Microsoft. They don't have to beat Sony's sales to "win" anything. They just need to keep on bleeding the company by forcing them to compete (at a $400 per unit laucnh loss) and in general weakening the company further.
I keep saying it, but the truth is the "winner" is whoever comes out of the scrap in better shape to fight tomorrow.
The real gaming bombshell is going to be when Microsoft and Apple announce a partnership to unify the computer and video gaming worlds in 2011. The I-Pod and XB360 experience, software and online distributuion channels married to a holographic-media based, multi-core processing and refiend graphics capability plus XBL-anywhere connectivity? Makes you drool already.....lol.