Should Sony step up their game?

By this I mean should Sony start playin hardball like Microsoft? Microsoft buys out DLC and exclusives. And they get all multiplats made for their system first. Ps3 is clearly a better system but in a marketing stand point they are failing. Should Sony start getting games exclusive and getting exclusive DLC and throughing around money?

After playing Wipeout HD I say no instead keep putting money into 1st and 2nd party studios because wipeout HD is a freaking gem and who best to make games than sony studios themselves as they no the system the best out of anyone

1080p 60FPS goodness of wipeout!!!

No, because then they'd be like Microsoft.

I like to not think of the company I support as money-grubbing, power-hungry bastards.

I don't want motion sensing remotes and $50 online fees.

I just want games.

It is my expierence at Gamecrazy that Sony's exclusives are just fine. Yeah, the 360 does get ALOT of exclusives. However, look at this way, beacuse this is what customers tell me. When a game comes out for BOTH platforms, the 360 seems to accelerate...BUT the PS3 has the best exclusives available to it. Infinite Undiscovery, Gears, and Zoid's Assault haven't reached the amount of sells that Metal Gear Solid 4 has. Just hold on buddy... Resistance will take on Gears 2, and Killzone 2 will finally put Halo 3 out of action. Our time will come, my friend.DerMeister90

[QUOTE="DerMeister90"]It is my expierence at Gamecrazy that Sony's exclusives are just fine. Yeah, the 360 does get ALOT of exclusives. However, look at this way, beacuse this is what customers tell me. When a game comes out for BOTH platforms, the 360 seems to accelerate...BUT the PS3 has the best exclusives available to it. Infinite Undiscovery, Gears, and Zoid's Assault haven't reached the amount of sells that Metal Gear Solid 4 has. Just hold on buddy... Resistance will take on Gears 2, and Killzone 2 will finally put Halo 3 out of action. Our time will come, my friend.2beers_in_hand

It is my expierence at Gamecrazy that Sony's exclusives are just fine. Yeah, the 360 does get ALOT of exclusives. However, look at this way, beacuse this is what customers tell me. When a game comes out for BOTH platforms, the 360 seems to accelerate...BUT the PS3 has the best exclusives available to it. Infinite Undiscovery, Gears, and Zoid's Assault haven't reached the amount of sells that Metal Gear Solid 4 has. Just hold on buddy... Resistance will take on Gears 2, and Killzone 2 will finally put Halo 3 out of action. Our time will come, my friend.DerMeister90

I thought Gears of War had higher sales than MGS4. I thought Gear was about 4.5 million and MGS was around 3.5 million last time i looked. How much was the sales figures on MGS4?

TC i think Sony should have put their hand in their pockets and paid to keep Final Fantasy a PS3 exclusive because this game going to the 360 hurt the PS3. People know that the 360 has a bigger RPG line up but didn't mind so much as they thought one of the favorite RPG games series Final Fantasy would be a PS3 exclusive. When it went to the 360 then it just made the PS3 look even weaker for RPG fans.

I think sony should invest in DLC for there own exclusive games before they start to look at buying multi-plate exclusives.

Sony has used the same hardball tactics as MS when they first came on the market and had to go against the very popular Saga and Nintendo. At the end of the PS2 life Sony had no real competition for games so they didn't need to continue to buy exclusive right to games. It sSony own fault that they just assumed games would stay exclusive to the PS3 without giving any money to these companies to stop them selling on other system to increase there profits.

[QUOTE="2beers_in_hand"][QUOTE="DerMeister90"]It is my expierence at Gamecrazy that Sony's exclusives are just fine. Yeah, the 360 does get ALOT of exclusives. However, look at this way, beacuse this is what customers tell me. When a game comes out for BOTH platforms, the 360 seems to accelerate...BUT the PS3 has the best exclusives available to it. Infinite Undiscovery, Gears, and Zoid's Assault haven't reached the amount of sells that Metal Gear Solid 4 has. Just hold on buddy... Resistance will take on Gears 2, and Killzone 2 will finally put Halo 3 out of action. Our time will come, my friend.DerMeister90

forget buying exclusives and dlc sony need to advertise it.

ok maybe its different in other countrys but when was the last time you seen an advert for the ps3 in a newspaper or tv or anywhere? not since the 40gb came out. i didnt see 1 single advert for mgs4 which is a shame because not all people check gaming news and if they saw this game it might make them want a ps3. ive never seen 1 ps3 ad where they say its a blu ray player they never advertise nothing.

on the other hand i see adverts for the 360 all the time. any multi play game thats on there is always the xbox 360 logo after it and no ps3 logo. this is why sony are doing so bad. not only are microsoft getting a lot of ps3 exclusives to become multi plat but sony arent even showing off the exclusives they do have

forget buying exclusives and dlc sony need to advertise it.

ok maybe its different in other countrys but when was the last time you seen an advert for the ps3 in a newspaper or tv or anywhere? not since the 40gb came out. i didnt see 1 single advert for mgs4 which is a shame because not all people check gaming news and if they saw this game it might make them want a ps3. ive never seen 1 ps3 ad where they say its a blu ray player they never advertise nothing.

on the other hand i see adverts for the 360 all the time. any multi play game thats on there is always the xbox 360 logo after it and no ps3 logo. this is why sony are doing so bad. not only are microsoft getting a lot of ps3 exclusives to become multi plat but sony arent even showing off the exclusives they do have

d_ano

WOW I just created a topic about this I'm glade I'm not the only one.

They h ave two big problems right now. They are not buying rpgs and they are not advertising their games properly.eklineage

Actually they aren't advertising their games at all I haven't seen a PS3 advert for a long time now.

If you've read the news carefully over the past year youll notice its only Microsoft who are steppng up there game. Two pirce cuts, Elite version which was supposed to match the 40 GB PS3(it failed mserably though), HDMI port and buying out exclusives make the Xbox 360 appeal more the people then the rather overpriced yet brilliantly made and produced PS3. What ends up happenng?, The PS3 narrows the gap from 10 Million consoles behnd the 360 to 4.5 in two years. So really Sony is winning from doing nothing while Microsoft is struggling.division_9

By this I mean should Sony start playin hardball like Microsoft? Microsoft buys out DLC and exclusives. And they get all multiplats made for their system first. Ps3 is clearly a better system but in a marketing stand point they are failing. Should Sony start getting games exclusive and getting exclusive DLC and throughing around money?

wiidog

I think think that this has already happened, no? MGS4, Uncharted, MLB: The Show, HeavSword, Motorstorm, KZ, R:FOM are all exclusives (both here and on the way), and many more besides. Bioshock has extra content not available on the 360.

Let me ask this: between the current and upcoming exclusives AND all the multiplats that the PS3 has (yes, multiplats do count as playable games), who out there can play them all? Who has that much money/time to blow? I just don't understand it.

This is few things Sony must do.

1. Get a new advertising team. Their TV commercials and magazine ads are HORRIBLE.

2. Develop better relationship with 3rd party developers. With difficult hardware to develop games for, and rather arrogant approach towards 3rd party developers resulted into very poor relationship with them and Sony. Capcom is showing negative reaction towards Sony in this generation, and Square also shows not so good relationship with Sony. Sony must reconnect with them by friendlier approach by helping them out with development tools and better deals.

3. STOP MAKING FPS. Let your first party developers make something else for a change. Just look how much positive reaction Little Big Planet is getting. Sony needs to invest their money into other genre games in order to catch up.

4. MAKE JRPGS. Microsoft is starting to get a lot of attention thanks to flood of JRPGs. In the past, it was ALWAYS the case that the dominant console had most JRPGs. JRPGs always has been deciding factors for success of a console and Sony themselves enjoyed great success thanks to JRPGs. Why shut them out now when it is proven success method? Even now, on Sony console, one of the most anticipated game is Persona 4.

Those are the four things Sony needs to do immediately to get back in this market.

Ps3 is clearly a better system

wiidog

[QUOTE="DerMeister90"]It is my expierence at Gamecrazy that Sony's exclusives are just fine. Yeah, the 360 does get ALOT of exclusives. However, look at this way, beacuse this is what customers tell me. When a game comes out for BOTH platforms, the 360 seems to accelerate...BUT the PS3 has the best exclusives available to it. Infinite Undiscovery, Gears, and Zoid's Assault haven't reached the amount of sells that Metal Gear Solid 4 has. Just hold on buddy... Resistance will take on Gears 2, and Killzone 2 will finally put Halo 3 out of action. Our time will come, my friend.campbell1874

I thought Gears of War had higher sales than MGS4. I thought Gear was about 4.5 million and MGS was around 3.5 million last time i looked. How much was the sales figures on MGS4?

TC i think Sony should have put their hand in their pockets and paid to keep Final Fantasy a PS3 exclusive because this game going to the 360 hurt the PS3. People know that the 360 has a bigger RPG line up but didn't mind so much as they thought one of the favorite RPG games series Final Fantasy would be a PS3 exclusive. When it went to the 360 then it just made the PS3 look even weaker for RPG fans.

I think sony should invest in DLC for there own exclusive games before they start to look at buying multi-plate exclusives.

Sony has used the same hardball tactics as MS when they first came on the market and had to go against the very popular Saga and Nintendo. At the end of the PS2 life Sony had no real competition for games so they didn't need to continue to buy exclusive right to games. It sSony own fault that they just assumed games would stay exclusive to the PS3 without giving any money to these companies to stop them selling on other system to increase there profits.

With a lot of games on show at TGS

I'd say they're stepping up their game

Wouldn't you?

I do agree with you. I think they should start playing hardball and getting more DLC. Its really annoying to always hear that microsoft has all this exclusive dlc and sony is missing out. Makes sony looks like the inferior system and i want dlc for fallout 3!joel_c17

Mirror's Edge DLC will be exclusive to PS3. Is that enough?

[QUOTE="joel_c17"]I do agree with you. I think they should start playing hardball and getting more DLC. Its really annoying to always hear that microsoft has all this exclusive dlc and sony is missing out. Makes sony looks like the inferior system and i want dlc for fallout 3!eregol

Mirror's Edge DLC will be exclusive to PS3. Is that enough?

Ps3 is clearly a better system but in a marketing stand point they are failing.

wiidog

[QUOTE="campbell1874"]

[QUOTE="DerMeister90"]It is my expierence at Gamecrazy that Sony's exclusives are just fine. Yeah, the 360 does get ALOT of exclusives. However, look at this way, beacuse this is what customers tell me. When a game comes out for BOTH platforms, the 360 seems to accelerate...BUT the PS3 has the best exclusives available to it. Infinite Undiscovery, Gears, and Zoid's Assault haven't reached the amount of sells that Metal Gear Solid 4 has. Just hold on buddy... Resistance will take on Gears 2, and Killzone 2 will finally put Halo 3 out of action. Our time will come, my friend.DerMeister90

I thought Gears of War had higher sales than MGS4. I thought Gear was about 4.5 million and MGS was around 3.5 million last time i looked. How much was the sales figures on MGS4?

TC i think Sony should have put their hand in their pockets and paid to keep Final Fantasy a PS3 exclusive because this game going to the 360 hurt the PS3. People know that the 360 has a bigger RPG line up but didn't mind so much as they thought one of the favorite RPG games series Final Fantasy would be a PS3 exclusive. When it went to the 360 then it just made the PS3 look even weaker for RPG fans.

I think sony should invest in DLC for there own exclusive games before they start to look at buying multi-plate exclusives.

Sony has used the same hardball tactics as MS when they first came on the market and had to go against the very popular Saga and Nintendo. At the end of the PS2 life Sony had no real competition for games so they didn't need to continue to buy exclusive right to games. It sSony own fault that they just assumed games would stay exclusive to the PS3 without giving any money to these companies to stop them selling on other system to increase there profits.

The sales figures i mentioned was for worldwide sales. If your going to stat a fact based on one contry only then you have to say that at the start on gamespot as their is a lot of people from different contries who use gamespot.

Just to make it more confuing with the World internet thing is that am from Scotland.

[QUOTE="eregol"]

[QUOTE="joel_c17"]I do agree with you. I think they should start playing hardball and getting more DLC. Its really annoying to always hear that microsoft has all this exclusive dlc and sony is missing out. Makes sony looks like the inferior system and i want dlc for fallout 3!DerMeister90

Mirror's Edge DLC will be exclusive to PS3. Is that enough?

Absolutely

http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/09/02/ps3-mirrors-edge-will-get-exclusive-dlc/

Forget marketing, every potential customer out there knows about the Playstation brand, first they need better games first and they need to do something about the PSN. Don`t matter if it`s free, people are willing to pay for a good online service, that`s why LIVE is crushing PSN in numbers... aren`t they charging for early demos allready, lol, that`s treating customers like idiots. "It`s free... but" gtfo

They need more titles like KZ2 and LBP... high quality... "good" games like Resistance doesn`t cut it against the MS monsters like Halo and GOW.

The hardware is exellent, now the games and online service must follow.

[QUOTE="wiidog"]

Ps3 is clearly a better system

DarthSlayor

Sony is in the business for years now. How the hell are we to say that this and that is wrong? They know what they are doing.

IMO, the only thing they need to do is more TV advertising and more advertising in general.