Sony's Expected E3 Titles

Next-Gen has more details on expected titles we'll see next week at E3. Today they have details on games from Sony and Sony Online Entertainment. From the former article: "God of War II - The apparently big shocker about God of War II was that it's staying resident on the PS2 instead of the PS3, which is supposedly a bad thing. The people who think this maybe are forgetting that God of War, the first one, was a Playstation 2 game; maybe they are even forgetting how that game was a blood-soak masterpiece? It's not entirely clear. What is clear from footage is that God of War II looks to up the ante of the first game in every way."

Comments

Re:Excuse me?

[buffer-overflowed]

You hold to the seperate division "theory" because you're a fool. A company does not leverage a position of strength in one industry to break into another industry out of niceness. They do it to make money for their existing divisions. In Sony's current case, it's using the PS3 to get blu-ray into homes for the DRM advantages this gives to Sony Media.

See a pattern here?

Sony Media repeatedly gimps Sony Electronics.

The playstation itself was originally an SNES-CD addon until the two companies had a falling out, Sony decided to launch it anyway, and the playstation brand owes it's strength to cheaper media costs and the coup that was getting square during the N64/Saturn/PSX era. They've been riding on what Nintendo(who due to not being number one for a while have been rather well-behaved for the past 10 years) taught them ever since. And i wouldn't be surprised if they delayed the PS3 to rip Nintendo off yet again.

You want a PS3 because you're a fool as well. It's produced by a me-too company whose last iota of unrestrained talent faded ages ago, and whose sad fanboys(not fans, apple, nintendo, and star wars have fans, short for fanatic) roam the wilds of the internet acting juvenile and lowering the common denominator. And it's one saving grace atm is that it'll have sequels to games I like on it, with a slightly shinier coating which has thus far completely failed to impress upon me the desire to spend > $500 for a fucking toy.

Re:Excuse me?

[Enderandrew]

Inventing a new format is inherently evil? McDonalds is using their unfair advantage of selling bad hamburgers to now sell side salads! The world is coming to an end! I only make $28,000 a year. I'm not rich by any means, but I've owned two HDTVs for quite some time. It irks me that I can't get hi def movies to play on my HDTVs. I'm all for a new media format that allows for greater storage of data. No one complained that Sony pushed the DVD format with PS2, so I don't understand why everyone is up in arms about Blu-Ray. Getting a cheap hi-def player bundled with a great gaming console is a GOOD thing. And in case you missed it, if you go HD-DVD you may not get a HD picture because the player can opt to downsample to a lower resolution. The best part is how the backers of HD-DVD said, "well consumers probably won't even notice that it is at a lower resolution." Excuse the fuck me? Why pay $1,500 for a HD player and not get HD resolutions? I can get a $30 DVD player. That my friend, is evil.