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Sony Needs To React to Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the la-la-la-can't-hear-you dept.

Ars Technica's Opposable Thumbs column discusses comments by Ubisoft president Yves Guillemont. Mr. Guillemont's kind words for the 360 prompted thumbs poster Ben Kuchera to think even less well of Ken Kutaragi's recent arrogant windbag statement. Essentially, Mr. Kuchera is of the opinion that at this stage of the game Sony not only should 'care', they should be worried. From the article: "I wonder what the talk is within Sony... are they talking about the increased competition this generation, or do they all share Kuturagi's confidence? This isn't the same fight they had with the Dreamcast and the Xbox: in that case they had Sega's last system that never enjoyed EA's support, and Microsoft's first, unproven piece of hardware. Now they are up against Microsoft's second system, with very strong software support and online support, and the very popular and affordable Wii."

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  1. First two links? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Are the first two links supposed to go to the same location? I couldn't find anything about Sony's arrogance in the second link...

    1. Re:First two links? by reanjr · · Score: 2, Informative

      I think it was supposed to link to http://www.gamespot.com/news/6159054.html . This link can be found on the page you end up at from the third link.

  2. Re:Talking about the wrong company. by thebaron2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well I think that a difference between the Xbox and the 360 is that this time around Microsoft is getting a lot of 3rd party support for RPGs for their system - they just haven't been released as early as other titles. Although it's a solitary player on the field, Oblivion was a great RPG, although a bit overwhelming. Bioshock, from Irrational Games, will be coming next year (I believe) and was so impressive that it won IGN's Overall Game of the Show award for E3 '06. I don't know how much stock you put in IGN's reviews, but it is an impressive looking game nonetheless. The 360 will also be seeing more Japanese RPGs come over to the system on the American side. Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are being released in Japan, with Blue Dragon set to hit this side of the Atlantic next year as well. A lot of this information can be found at this IGN article actually, with a preview of the upcoming RPGs for the 360: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/716/716474p1.html I've got a 360, an XBox, a PS2, and wouldn't be surprised if I own a PS3 down the line, if the games are there, so I don't consider myself too biased one way or the other. I do love RPGs, though, and I can tell you that I'm really excited about some of these upcoming titles for the 360 - much more so than I ever was about an RPG on the Xbox.

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  3. Re:Don't look at what they say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    "...their sixasses controller that sounds an awful like a Wiimote crossed with a Dual Shock..."

    Yea, except they had to drop the DualShock technology altogether for legal reasons.

  4. Re:Dreamcast and XBox? by bigman2003 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article is written mainly about 3rd party software support.

    The Gamecube fell WAY behind in 3rd party support. They did great with first party- but a lot of big games ignored the 'Cube.

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  5. Re:So companies release their games on dead consol by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Informative

    20% is no controlling share, after the Enix merger thant went down to single digit per cents and Square-Enix has already announced they will spread their games out over all three consoles in order to prevent monopolies like the PS2.

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