It's hard to believe, but we're nearly five years detached from PlayStation 3's lackluster launch in November of 2006. Hot off of the record-breaking success of the PlayStation 2, PS3 models were boldly (and stupidly) priced at between $500 and $600, up to twice the PS2's launch price in 2000. Even though gamers loved their PS2s in the generation past, things weren't going well for the PS3 for several years, mainly due to its high cost-of-entry and its lack of compelling titles.
But since 2006, Sony's situation has solidified greatly, and the company seems to have learned a great deal about what it did wrong with PlayStation 3. Until a week ago, its Blu-ray-playing console cost a mere $300, half of what it cost only a few years prior. And its library of games hasn't only gotten stronger, but much stronger. With a staggering amount of exclusives when compared to its HD competition, Sony began making a strong case for why its system is a must-have choice for the hardcore gamer, both in terms of value and in terms of sheer amount of games that can only be played on PlayStation 3...
Game Rant talked to Suda51 about a potential sequel to Shadows of the Damned, and here's what he had to say.
Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher developer CD Projekt hosted its fiscal year 2023 earnings conference, and provided details about its games and business alongside comments on the use of generative AI and licensing its IPs for mobile games.
Though this news in a way should be good new trilogy making cash taking a break from cyberpunk and all that i would like to reminded everyone that the new cdpr is pro esg. There focus going forward is to make games for everyone so the next witcher will have less everything watch the swearing/blood be political the main character might just be a woman that is trans lesbian perhaps likes dogs who knows.
see video cfo cdpr there new esg vision
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I am a witcher fan enjoyed cyberpunk but i know the old devs are all gone the people that made red engine are all gone so this is a new team with a new visions under the esg the same esg that looks at a company like sweet baby as visionaries.
So take this news with a grain of salt as the chance of witcher 3 magic again is very low seeing how starfield removed gore to appease the masses and we are gun ho with live service. We will see what this looks like but keep your expectations low.
I mean remember how netflix wither is being handled though yes more on that teams side than cdpr but yikes.
I will leave rebel wolves site they are made up from former cdpr devs
https://rebel-wolves.com/
Though still hush hush on there new rpg.
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
Loved the RPGs but never played the others. Have to track them down. Still not sure about Snow Day though.
if it didnt then sony wouldnt have done it. You figure they have goals to meet and if it aint selling then you aint making your goals.
Remember, they have a strong lineage to live up to. Not that it would kill them but to not even match what the ps1 did is somewhat disheartening.
MS passed what they did on the original xbox and sony passed up the ps1 with the ps2. No doubt they want to do the same with the ps3. The old phrase "price is no object" is a lie. Price IS an object.
Yes it does matter.
The lower the price, the wider the market.
matters if u dont already own one other than that not really.
If you are a 360 owner without Blu-ray and would like to catch up on some great series like Uncharted and God of War then I think it's a good deal. A drop to $199 would have been earth shattering though.
There are still only about 20 great exclusives though (and most people wont like all the exclusives because they cater to different tastes), so if somebody already owns a 360 or gaming PC for multiplats then £175 is a lot.
But more people need to own PS3s and the price drop will do that; Sony are friendly to developers and don't charge for multiplayer and that keeps gaming pure, a future with paid peer to peer multiplayer is just stupid and I hope microsoft don't do that with their next console.
The PS2 and xbox1 had thousands of exclusives. Even the 360 only has a handful of great exclusives, and M$ butchered most of the good exclusive series on it anyway.
If Sony are wanting to get a lot of people who currently own 360s to buy a ps3, the price will still be too high for most people.
Second hand purchases will be far more likely, will it ever be impossible to find a second hand one? No, but there will be some Christmas gift purchase that probably won't be second hand.
Overall, I don't think they are going to reach the kind of figures that the ps1 and ps2 sold because they did too poorely at the start of the generation and the whole multiplat trend these days has harmed them quite a lot; hence why they are working on a lot of first party games.
The console industry these days is broken. The manufacturers have to make their own market and the developers are caught up in the middle.