"This is what it's come to, everyone. Companies are gaining more attention for their commercials by announcing them in advance. You know how a lot of game companies don't just make announcements anymore, they will instead announce that an announcement is coming on a certain date and then leave you hangin'? That's because it inevitably gets more attention than simply dropping the news bomb." -Heath Hindman for Game Revolution
Here are ten reasons why we still love the original PlayStation.
Resi 1 and Crash 1 these games go together in my nostalgia filled memory as the start of PS brand afficionando ....and objectively and curiously still remain untouched peaks in their genres ...nothing came close to them
Sony has launched a new video series called, Playstation VR Developer Diaries. The first of the five-part video series, which glances back at the project’s early days is live now, so check it out!
Good informative video in post, but did you notice something in the video that maybe very interesting in further development's for VR in PSVR?
Something Many might have not caught on about PSVR, and its a really good idea to have the Headset built with this functionality in the headset, and its pretty good that it's included..
I know what it is, I want to see if other people caught it..Hint: it has to do with tracking in VR!
Take careful notice in the 1min 9 to 12 second's of the video..
It's there. And it's a real further Key what Sony has intended to add with PSVR in the future of its tracking.
Interesting… notice that during 0:22 – 0:24 of the video, 3 black bands appear, quickly whip around then disappear into PS VR. I think those 3 black bands hint at PS4 Neo's exterior design. [1]
[1] http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-...
Mark Kriska of Mammoth Gamers continues his console wars piece with a closer look at the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii.
This article is wrong in some aspects.
- PS3 has a successful E3 2005. Other than the questionable boomerang controller, everyone was excited about the console. It was E3 2006 that ruffled people's feathers.
- Xbox 360 actually had the slowest start of all 7th gen consoles. PS3 and Wii sold at a faster rate at their respective launches and all throughout most of the generation.
- How can you say that PSN failed? It implemented many features that we take for granted nowadays such as using actual local currency instead of a contrived points system, not locking many of the console's functionalities behind a paywall, having Cross-Buy right out of the gate starting with PS1 Classics, offering AAA games release day one along with the retail version, allowing Remote Play to be accessed anywhere in the world, starting out the gate with dedicated servers, offering a subscription service that gives plenty of value via PS+, and it was nowhere as restrictive as XBL. That sounds like a success to me.
- PS3 actually came in second place because it was always selling at a faster pace than 360 since day one when you align their launches. PS3 ended up selling 86 million while 360 sold 85 million. This is significant because PS3 had one less year on the market and was more expensive throughout most of its life compared to the 360.
- Xbox 360 may have ended up being the favorite platform in North America, but you can't say the same for the rest of the world. In regions such as Europe, Asia, and RoW the PS3 and Wii were always more prominent. That's why those platforms were able to outsell 360 in total sales.
I feel like Ralphie in A Christmas Story, when he waited and waited for his Secret Society Decoder Pin, and the first message read by the radio announcer was in fact an advertisement for Ovaltine. "A crummy commercial?" the boy realized aloud. "Son of a bitch."
^ Pretty much. It started as announcing announcements, now we're announcing commercials.
Oh, I liked the commercial for sure. I'm a nerd and seeing those characters doing their thing gave me tingles. But the fact remains, Sony hyped hype. Announced the debut of a commercial for an ad campaign that had already begun. That's a little silly.
Yeah, I can't believe the hype this received and there was absolutely no announcement of anything meaningful. The productiong value was great, I loved seeing Isaac Clarke in there and everything, but this was disappointing to say the least.
If anything is surprising, its the N4G community's reaction to this. Just last week people were feverishly predicting and awaiting what the special announcement might be and how it would improve PSN.
http://n4g.com/news/853929/...
Now we find out that all the hype was simply a commercial...and people are okay with that?
http://n4g.com/news/859251/...
No new features, no new firmware, no new interface...but your happy because Sony created a commercial that honors gamers...something that they HAVE to do anyways in order to make money.
Don't know why people were expecting some big announcement. That's what E3, TGS, and Gamescom are for.
This ad was more interesting than most of the announcements at E3 anyway.
You mean people thought this WASN'T going to be a commercial? If Sony was going to announce something then they would've made an announcement that they were going to announce something.