Sony didn't care about alienating PS2 owners when they released Uncharted for just the PS3.
It is probably good that you are not running this business because you seem to think that Sony is in the business of selling video games. Sony is a console maker and that is what matters to them. If they cared about how many copies a game sold, they would just be a publisher like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc. and put their games on all platforms.
The only time I can think of that Sony published a cross-gen game was LittleBigPlanet 3 for PS3/PS4. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune wasn't released on PS2. God of War 2 was just released for PS2 even though it came out after the PS3 launched. Same thing with Gran Turismo 6 only being a PS3 game. Sony has always had their first-party studios making games for just one console generation. They are in the business of selling consoles and the way that you do that is by making games one ca...
@elazz
That really has nothing to do with it though. Different console architecture didn't prevent third-parties from releasing all the cross-gen games for the PS3 and PS4, or even the PS2 and PS3. Sony used to believe in generations, which is why God of War 2 was just released on the PS2 even though it came out after the launch of the PS3. Same thing with Gran Turismo 6 releasing on the PS3 in December 2013. It is why Uncharted just released on the PS3 in 2007 even...
How exactly does that work? China worked to shut down the world economy in order to prevent consumers from buying a PS5 that is made in China???
Completely different things. Knack, Killzone SF, Infamous SS, and Driveclub were not on PS3. Prior to the PS5, LittleBigPlanet 3 is the only game in the history of Playstation to be a cross-gen game. Sony has always done the best job at supporting their existing platform while at the same time supporting the next-gen platform with first-party games made just for it. Now though, PS5 owners will have to wait until 2023 to really start getting games made just for it.
No pressure, but if it doesn't do well Sony is going to give you the axe. Just look at Japan Studio, Guerilla Cambridge, Evolution Studios, Zipper Interactive, etc.
Not in Japan. You have to love that these people whining about the censorship of Japanese material are completely silent about the Japanese censorship of real-life human genitalia.
Asobi Team was always first party. They were a Japan Studio team created in 2012.
How about the digital PS5 - you ok with supporting that?
I didn't miss the /s - it is why I am making fun of you and your hypocrisy. Also, don't sell yourself short - you are worth the 30s it took to compare all those saying the PS4 cmos is no big deal while this XBox problem is the end of the world.
Assassins Creed 2 showed Ubisoft how to make money and Far Cry 2 showed them that gamers don't like complex ideas. Now Ubisoft just turns out games that are just variations of the same thing.
Reviews are pointless when all I can think about is how Biomutant locked an entire class behind a preorder bonus. Instead of buying the game day 1, I'll pick it up when it is $20. Punishing players who don't preorder is not the way to win over consumers.
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"One of the reasons I will never support this anti consumer company"
Yet you are completely ok with supporting Sony even after you know that all PS4s will be unable to play any physical game after the servers go down and your cmos battery dies.
cmos removes all PS4s the ability to play any game once the battery dies when the PS4 servers are no longer active. This renders the XBox Series X unable to play XBox One Smart Delivery games when the XB servers are no longer active.
This is what you said about the PS4 cmos issue - "You know? Thinking about what could happen with your console in 15 years is kinda pointless. This is the first time i've seen people being concerned about it."
Is anyone really surprised to see this story on n4g while the same one about PS4 and PS5 was blocked? Once again it appears that only Microsoft customers are allowed to hear bad news about XBox here at n4g since that fuels the console war. We don't see mods blocking this story because "Not an issue for XBox as everything is online. When they take the servers offline, then it's an issue"
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It wasn't Amazon that was doing the pressuring on Sony and bringing up an unrelated case from 4 years prior just highlights that you have no proof to back up your claims (you did just try to claim that in response to Amazon wanting a bigger cut from Sony, Amazon ended their 20% off discount for preorders). Since there is no court case where we get to see internal company communications, all we can do is look at what happened and when. What we do know is that Amazon and Best Buy were bot...
You are correct, which is why I referenced lifetime sales vs. time supported by Nintendo. Everyone remembers the success of the DS, but even after the DS launched the Gameboy Advance still sold almost 20 million more units. Pretty impressive considering that the last new games Nintendo published for it were Mario Party and Mario Tennis: Power Tour in 2005.
Worldwide, Gameboy Advance was on the market for 3 years 5 months before the DS replaced it. The Switch is extremely successful, and I would still give it the edge over the GBA since it costs at least double, but you have to admit that the GBA is probably the most overlooked Nintendo handheld. If Nintendo kept it on the market for 6 years like they did with the DS, then we probably would have had another handheld selling at least 125 million units.
That isn't even close to what happened but it isn't surprising to see the lengths some go to defend Sony. Sony stopped third-parties from selling digital PSN games in 2019. Amazon stop selling pre-orders for Sony exclusives as well as PSN cards in 2018 and they only returned in 2018 after Amazon ended their Amazon Prime pre-order discount. 2018 was also the same year that Best Buy terminated Gamers Club Unlocked - another program that offered consumers an option to buy a game cheap...
That is really amusing coming from you who is such a massive Sony fanboy that you have to comment on almost every XBox article. Nice to see the strawman attack instead of an actual response to Uncharted's release completely invalidating your statement.
If you read enough of my comment history, you'd see that I'm a big Sony fan. Since I am not a fanboy like you though, I will call them out on decisions I don't like - just like I do with Nintendo. You on ...