The media were the ones who overhyped this. I consider that self-trolling.
Besides, the game came out less than 7 months ago in Japan and less than 3 over here. Re-releases coming out at that pace are never good for PR. I'm amazed anyone ever conceived such a thing.
I don't disagree that the PS4 is probably the strongest console out there right now.
But bragging at this point, when Sony is so far ahead comes off as just mean. Besides, the PS4's specs are basically maxed out. Some PCs were stronger than the PS4 out of the gate, let alone half a year after release.
But the Wii U is backwards compatible, and the Gamecube games are all iterations that have superior versions already on or coming to the system (Mario Kart: DD, Mario Party 4, Smash Bros Melee, Animal Crossing, etc.)
The same goes for original Xbox, whose biggest hits were the Halo installments. They're also still supporting the 360, whereas the PS3 only started matching its sales recently; having a winning console right now is a perfect opportunity. If there's any console with a number of unsung hits that the converted need to play, it's the PS3.
That episode Extra Credits did on Tangential Learning through gaming pretty much says it all. This medium has too much value in its interactivity to not use for a certain amount of real-world knowledge building.
This kind of saddens me, but the fact that Shuhei was willing to say it out loud like that tells me they have confidence in the method.
Still, the notion of titles like rain, Sound Shapes, Echochrome, Unfinished Swan and Puppeteer not getting made would be... unfortunate.
I wish there would be another thatgamecompany-type success story where investing in a creative team would yield massive success. For that, I'm expecting good things from Pixelopus (Sony's newest, internally-grown team).
First off, they did have a showing on their channel. The internet just chose to ignore it, the same way people seemingly romanticize everything Nintendo does.
Second, the Treehouse requires the conference to be going on as a prerequisite. It's only exciting because it's the E3 Nintendo Treehouse. A stream is a very mundane thing that can be running any time, really. Theirs only looked exciting because they were piggybacking off of hype that was already there.
Third, why not just do both? Sony and Microsoft can easily run their own pre-recorded streams, and maybe sell off specific coverage to GameTrailers, IGN or Gamespot (or keep it exclusive to their own channel, though lending certain segments to the highest bidder could offset the cost of making it). Have their conference and run the pre-recorded stuff exclusively on the internet, to let the kiddies still feel special. Showing they have pockets deep enough to grab some live reactions while setting up a complex program would completely undermine Nintendo only having one of those things.
Pretty much anything Nintendo can do Sony can do better.
This right here is why people are so stupid when they talk about who "won" E3, as if it's just over like that.
Sony is the most international of the Big 3 console-makers, and if they focus their absolute attention on America's biggest conference, they won't be maintaining that; after all, they've taken the west quite decisively. That fact only motivated Microsoft and Nintendo -who will naturally be no-shows at Gamescom- to fire every gun they had at once.
Yet you still see a constant stream of entitled complaints that Sony didn't do the same, as if that made sense for their overall strategy.
Playing their cards close to their chest is smart. Let the other console-makers rush out some announcement while still failing to match the PS4's sales.
And when these highly-refined, heavily-polished titles start trickling down (hopefully in time for Christmas), no one will be able to challenge Sony's dominance. A rushed launch, rushed announcement, or rushed anything can only end painfully.
Let's be honest: Sony has already conquered the U.S. There's nothing left for them to prove.
Gamescom and TGS will be their real proving ground. Some of those territories have traditionally been their strongest, and forgetting about them wouldn't be wise.
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Re: Rock Band 4 Brings the Band Back Together on PS4 This Year
Day 1 pre-order right here. Those games made up so much of my 7th generation.
Re: Danganronpa 3 Is Bringing Despair Back to Our Lives at Some Point
Really hoping the story is crazy good. The last one felt rushed by comparison to the first.
Re: These Are the Players: A Conversation with YouTube Game Reviewer Caddicarus
So who else read this in his voice?
Re: Review: Dragon Ball XenoVerse (PlayStation 4)
Now I have to buy this, knowing Takahata101 is in it.
Thanks Push Square.
Re: Feature: What Do You Mean You've Never Played... Rogue Galaxy?
Sony's got way too many underrepresented RPG's in their stable. They need to revisit at least one of them for the PS4 or Vita.
Re: Save On 2014's Biggest Games In The Latest PSN Sale
Glad to see Danganronpa 1 and 2 on there.
Re: Happy Birthday to Sony Executive Shuhei Yoshida
@xMEADx Sort your attitude out, mmkay?
Re: This Dude Wanted $20,000 to Smash Up His Anniversary PS4
Only on the internet
Re: Soapbox: Why We Need More Grounded Games
Go watch Extra Credits: Spectacle Creep and Beyond Fun.
They pretty much encapsulate why this is a good idea.
Re: The Order: 1886 Is Surely the Most Bizarrely Marketed PS4 Exclusive Yet
This is going straight on my Halloween playlist.
Re: Talking Point: Would You Buy PlayStation-Themed Amiibo?
I'm a little exhausted from having to explain to Nintendoids why PS All-Stars isn't a rip-off. I'm not about ready to do that again.
Re: Anime Fighter Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax is Punching West on Vita and PS3
Can't wait to play as Selvaria.
Re: The Last of Us' Ellie Is Poised to Become One of the Most Famous Characters in Gaming
@BLPs Bravo. Awesome speech.
Re: Vampyr is an RPG From the Studio that Brought You Remember Me
This has earned my attention.
Re: Poll: Is It Now Time for Sony to Consider a $349.99 PS4 Price Promotion?
There should've been a fourth option: "Keep on releasing bundles"
Re: You Can Probably Guess Which Games Topped the Christmas PSN Charts
Danganronpa 2 is just awesome
Re: We Sentence Sony to 500,000 Years for This Freedom Wars Troll
The media were the ones who overhyped this. I consider that self-trolling.
Besides, the game came out less than 7 months ago in Japan and less than 3 over here. Re-releases coming out at that pace are never good for PR. I'm amazed anyone ever conceived such a thing.
Re: PlayStation Now's All-You-Can-Play Subscription Service Launches Next Week
I would love this if the library were extraordinarily deep. I'm still holding onto my 60GB FAT model PS3 to keep playing my old PS2 games.
If I didn't have to do that anymore, then yeah, I'd use this service.
Re: Why Haven't We Seen More of Gravity Rush 2? You'll Find Out Soon
If it has to be on PS4, at least keep the Vita version too.
Re: Anime Gods Be Praised, J-Stars Victory VS+ Is Actually Coming West on PS4, PS3, and Vita
I'm am completely stunned.
But seriously, this is incredible.
Re: Exclusive: How One Developer Turned a PS Vita into a Virtual Reality Headset
Now that's flippin cool
Re: Street Fighter's Natural Home Is on PlayStation, Claims Sony
Tekken will always be Sony's signature 3rd-party fighting series.
Re: These Multiplayer DLC Executions for The Last of Us Are Skipping the PS3
Well there goes my season pass.
Re: PlayStation Executive Shuhei Yoshida Sure Is Proud of His Own Work
Aww.
I was hoping he'd mention Legend of Dragoon.
Re: PlayStation Vue Is Sony's Very Own TV, TV, TV Service
Might buy it for sports. I've been on the fence about subscription-based TV for years, but this could work well for me.
Hope it gets to Canada...
Re: Oh No! Sony Has Even Bungled DriveClub's Box
Seriously...?
Re: Sony: The Last Guardian Development Couldn't Be Better
@drpepperdude100 Couldn't have said it better.
Re: TGS 2014: How Does Uncharted 4's Nathan Drake Sound in Japan?
Hiroki Tochi, correct?
Re: Despite PS4's Success, Sony Expects to Lose a Lot of Money Again
Guess I better grab an Xperia Z3 this Christmas
Re: July NPD: PS4 Still Best Selling System as The Last of Us Tops Charts
@Dodoo I wouldn't put too much confidence in their data, but that's still some pretty interesting news that I hope is actually true.
Re: Gamescom 2014: Wow, Sony Actually Cut PS4 Games from Its Press Conference
I just want to hear what Sony Bend are doing. And Naughty Dog supposedly had another secret title in the works that isn't Uncharted 4.
Re: Gamescom 2014: Hellblade Is Ninja Theory's First AAA Indie for PS4
It'll be mediocre to pathetically bad, like everything else NT has done.
Re: You Could Get a Sequel to Xbox One Exclusive Ryse on PS4
This game was always going to fail, wherever it goes.
Re: LittleBigPlanet 3 Embellishes Your PS4 with Bumper Stickers from 18th November
Hoping Sony's Christmas release schedule gets even more high-profile titles like this.
Re: PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 Would Be Impossible on Any Other Console
I don't disagree that the PS4 is probably the strongest console out there right now.
But bragging at this point, when Sony is so far ahead comes off as just mean. Besides, the PS4's specs are basically maxed out. Some PCs were stronger than the PS4 out of the gate, let alone half a year after release.
Re: Stripping Sim Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed Exposes Itself on PS4 This Fall
@MadchesterManc Right. It's like people take this game's existence as some kind of insult to whatever they want to see localized.
Re: Naughty Dog: An Uncharted Collection Would Be Really Cool to Have on PS4
@sinalefa Good point. Maybe they want to have several avenues available?
I'd guess that some devs were itching to up-res their titles, after squeezing out every drop of the PS3's power.
They also might not be able to make PS Now available everywhere yet (like China or certain European territories).
Re: Naughty Dog: An Uncharted Collection Would Be Really Cool to Have on PS4
@sinalefa Yeah, they probably are.
But the Wii U is backwards compatible, and the Gamecube games are all iterations that have superior versions already on or coming to the system (Mario Kart: DD, Mario Party 4, Smash Bros Melee, Animal Crossing, etc.)
The same goes for original Xbox, whose biggest hits were the Halo installments. They're also still supporting the 360, whereas the PS3 only started matching its sales recently; having a winning console right now is a perfect opportunity. If there's any console with a number of unsung hits that the converted need to play, it's the PS3.
Re: Sony to Share the Future of PS4 at GamesCom 2014 on 12th August
@MadchesterManc I wish they all knew. But it seems like most of the gaming population can't see that far beyond E3. It's a sad thing, really.
Re: Globe Trotting Uncharted Movie to Start Production 'Very Early Next Year'
Wahlberg's stupid face would ruin the whole movie.
Re: You Won't Have to Wait Long for Additional Tekken 7 Information
So can't wait for this game.
Re: Leaked PS4 Brawler Tekken 7 Gets a Tense New Teaser Trailer
Pretty much my favorite fighting franchise. Can't wait to hear more about this at SD Comic-Con.
Re: Talking Point: Should More Games Try to Teach Us Something?
That episode Extra Credits did on Tangential Learning through gaming pretty much says it all. This medium has too much value in its interactivity to not use for a certain amount of real-world knowledge building.
Re: Blimey, Only Four in Ten PlayStation Games Actually Make Money
This kind of saddens me, but the fact that Shuhei was willing to say it out loud like that tells me they have confidence in the method.
Still, the notion of titles like rain, Sound Shapes, Echochrome, Unfinished Swan and Puppeteer not getting made would be... unfortunate.
I wish there would be another thatgamecompany-type success story where investing in a creative team would yield massive success. For that, I'm expecting good things from Pixelopus (Sony's newest, internally-grown team).
Re: Talking Point: Should Sony Ditch E3 Stage Shows Like Nintendo?
First off, they did have a showing on their channel. The internet just chose to ignore it, the same way people seemingly romanticize everything Nintendo does.
Second, the Treehouse requires the conference to be going on as a prerequisite. It's only exciting because it's the E3 Nintendo Treehouse. A stream is a very mundane thing that can be running any time, really. Theirs only looked exciting because they were piggybacking off of hype that was already there.
Third, why not just do both? Sony and Microsoft can easily run their own pre-recorded streams, and maybe sell off specific coverage to GameTrailers, IGN or Gamespot (or keep it exclusive to their own channel, though lending certain segments to the highest bidder could offset the cost of making it). Have their conference and run the pre-recorded stuff exclusively on the internet, to let the kiddies still feel special. Showing they have pockets deep enough to grab some live reactions while setting up a complex program would completely undermine Nintendo only having one of those things.
Pretty much anything Nintendo can do Sony can do better.
Re: E3 2014: You Should Expect More PS4 Announcements at GamesCom and TGS
This right here is why people are so stupid when they talk about who "won" E3, as if it's just over like that.
Sony is the most international of the Big 3 console-makers, and if they focus their absolute attention on America's biggest conference, they won't be maintaining that; after all, they've taken the west quite decisively. That fact only motivated Microsoft and Nintendo -who will naturally be no-shows at Gamescom- to fire every gun they had at once.
Yet you still see a constant stream of entitled complaints that Sony didn't do the same, as if that made sense for their overall strategy.
Re: E3 2014: Why Do PlayStation 4 Games Keep Getting Delayed?
Playing their cards close to their chest is smart. Let the other console-makers rush out some announcement while still failing to match the PS4's sales.
And when these highly-refined, heavily-polished titles start trickling down (hopefully in time for Christmas), no one will be able to challenge Sony's dominance. A rushed launch, rushed announcement, or rushed anything can only end painfully.
Re: E3 2014: Scoff the Last Slice in Free PS Vita Puzzler Fat Princess: Piece of Cake
Nice to see the Princess expanding (no pun intended) beyond the first title.
Re: Mortal Kombat X Will Allow You to Finish Your Foe in 1080p on PS4
I'd rather see a Twisted Metal character as the Sony rep.
Let the Xbox version use someone from KI.
Re: Guerrilla Games' Secret PS4 Project Staying in Amsterdam for Now
Let's be honest: Sony has already conquered the U.S. There's nothing left for them to prove.
Gamescom and TGS will be their real proving ground. Some of those territories have traditionally been their strongest, and forgetting about them wouldn't be wise.