Gamer's Corner writes; "Eventually, Sony's Playstation Network will resume. If we're lucky we'll see that day sometime in the next few weeks. It's already old news that Sony will be offering it's loyal customers a free selection of two games from a pool of five. To date, Sony have not announced what those games will be. Clearly they'll be existing downloadable titles, we think they'll come from a mixture of genres and price points. To keep everyone happy we're expecting a full priced retail game, a mid priced pairing and a couple of golden oldies that satisfy the 'cheap and cheerful' moniker. We're not expecting any minis in the bunch, that would just be an insult after all of these weeks."
The gaming community is abuzz with excitement as fans eagerly anticipate the upcoming release of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, a highly anticipated remake of the beloved classic. Now that the release date has been unveiled, the journey to Rebirth’s launch can feel both tantalizing and arduous.
Total worldwide shipments and digital sales for Final Fantasy VII Remake surpassed seven million units, Square Enix announced.
What's interesting about this is, it's across 3 platforms in 3.5 years. FF16 sells almost half of this in a matter of days, but a certain group are convinced it's a failure.
Both games have clearly sold well, but they can't carry the weight of every bad decision a publisher makes.
Pretty sure FF7 Remake did 3.5 mill on ONLY PS4 in 3 days, which was faster than FF16’s sales to the 3 mill mark.
FF16 didn’t sell enough to recoup the dev cost and sales have slowed, which consequently made Square Enix pay out of their own pocket the dev cost so that future sales of FF16 would be at a profit. This dropped net profits by 65% and operating income plummeted by 78%. I don’t know what fantasy world where you’d call that a success.
I don’t get why we’re at this FF16 vs FF7 Remake point. Like the game you like, but let’s not kid ourselves on things.
you also need to consider that the biggest ff7 haters are final fantasy fans themselves. alot of ppl just didnt like it cause it wasnt the 100% faithful remaster they wanted it to be.
I highly doubt it will be anything already released on PS+...
just sayin
Will Starhawk be free?
How about they give everyone Infamous just in time for Infamous 2 to be released. Infamous is $30 on PSN store.
To be honest I think it would be quite a good strategic move for Sony to have a couple of free games that are updated every now and then, and have tournaments and HOME integration.
And I don't mean because of the PSN thing.... I mean as a selling point in general, a community builder, and a bridge to HOME.
Like for example.... Warhawk and Wipeout, imagine every one on PSN having access to them, and having a decent Clan system and Tournament structure in place...
And the various other things you could build around that to help forge more of an online community that had some sort of focal point around an area in HOME (but that wasn't necessary).
Obviously it would have to be set up in such a way that it wasn't going to detract from game sales as that would be counter-productive... but something that was alot of fun, brought people together in some sense, and that people could dip in and out of when they felt like it.
A game such as Little Big Planet has all the ingredients for something like that too...
Infamous is a safe bet, why else would Best Buy sell it for only $10 now anyways.