Why Sony 'Lost' GamesCom.

You might remember me from my previous thread: Why Sony 'Lost' E3. In the same style (please excuse my lack of creativity), I present Why Sony 'Lost' GamesCom.

Because people came expecting 2 announcements from Sony's conference.

The first announcement was the PS3 Slim. After getting it, they downplay it by saying, "we knew it was coming" (non-sequitur), "its ugly" (i remember people saying the same of the PS3) and also, "its going to have overheating problems (i see a 34% reduction in power consumption).

The second announcement was the PS3 price cut."It should have happened last year." I take this statement to mean that you would have bought it last year if it had the price drop then. Given that the PS3 has seen the following highly rated exclusives within the last year: LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2, and inFamous, why would your desire to purchase a PS3 diminish? Its the hefty $100 price cut most of you have been asking for.

What about the immense update the PSN store is receiving? Videos and music stores are actually being extended to other regions, unlike the XBox 360's Netflix service. Not to mention comics. Saying you don't care about any of this doesn't exactly negate the fact that this is going to appeal to a lot of other users.

And the 3.00 firmware update, which brings PSN yet another step closer to XBL.

If you're wondering about the GT5 '09 announcement that people were expecting, look no further than TGS, September 24-27.

[10:19] People who preorder Gran Turismo 5 on PS3 between October 1-10 will receive a free download of Gran Turismo PSP.

That's a winning combo.

A $299 system that serves not only as a great multimedia hub, but also a games console offering a library of great exclusives and free online. The argument that the 360 has a bigger/better library of games doesn't sit well with me. Firstly, that does not mean I can't own a PS3 too. Secondly, if I had to choose between a 360 and a PS3, why buy a 360 over a PS3 now when I could have done it a year ago?

The truth: In the past year, apart from a bunch of multi-plats shared with the PS3, the XBox 360 has only the following to crow about: Netflix and Avatars. The 360 is stagnating.

On the other hand, the PS3 has: LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2, inFamous, Playstation Home. Video and Music stores.

You can be a stubborn fanboy. Or you can be a gamer.

Once again, thanks for reading.

Just wondering, what is GamesCom and will the other gaming companies like Nintendo and MS have a conference too?

What, are you saying why they lost or why they 'won'?Yandere

I'm confused. How did they lose?

Um..how did they lose now? :lol:

Oh cut it out. Sony did a fine job. I wish I could have seen it live though.

Just wondering, what is GamesCom and will the other gaming companies like Nintendo and MS have a conference too?

gago-gago

MS's conference is about to start FYI.

Not sure what you're trying to say, but how did they lose? They gave what everyone who doesn't own a Ps3 wanted, a price cut.

Meh, they lost imo because of no B/C.

Instead of jumping to conclusions, how about reading my post and then understanding that the title was a hook, and my post an attempt to debunk why lemmings would say Sony did poorly at GamesCom, like they did for E3.

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Just wondering, what is GamesCom and will the other gaming companies like Nintendo and MS have a conference too?

PSdual_wielder

MS's conference is about to start FYI.

Instead of jumping to conclusions, how about reading my post and then understanding that the title was a hook, and my post an attempt to debunk why lemmings would say Sony did poorly at GamesCom, like they did for E3.

lymb

[QUOTE="lymb"]

Instead of jumping to conclusions, how about reading my post and then understanding that the title was a hook, and my post an attempt to debunk why lemmings would say Sony did poorly at GamesCom, like they did for E3.

heretrix

waaaait.

It's my fault that people don't read my post? That's news to me.

And it's also my fault that people don't see those quotation marks around the word Lost.

Like Why Sony 'Lost' GamesCom, and not Why Sony Lost GamesCom?

Who's getting defensive here?

I did the same in my previous thread and it went fine. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26908258

You could apologise for a misunderstanding, but you chose to push the blame onto me. Thats real sweet of you.

Irony is a lost art. TC I enjoyed the post.

ps3 lost gamecon because of this http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9170844&type=product&id=1218043606347 eMachines - Desktop with AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core Processor 4050e 3GB 250 GB Harddrive. Our Price:$329.99 ps3 299$ LOLZvideogamedead03

You might remember me from my previous thread: Why Sony 'Lost' E3. In the same style (please excuse my lack of creativity), I present Why Sony 'Lost' GamesCom.

Because people came expecting 2 announcements from Sony's conference.

The first announcement was the PS3 Slim. After getting it, they downplay it by saying, "we knew it was coming" (non-sequitur), "its ugly" (i remember people saying the same of the PS3) and also, "its going to have overheating problems (i see a 34% reduction in power consumption).

The second announcement was the PS3 price cut."It should have happened last year." I take this statement to mean that you would have bought it last year if it had the price drop then. Given that the PS3 has seen the following highly rated exclusives within the last year: LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2, and inFamous, why would your desire to purchase a PS3 diminish? Its the hefty $100 price cut most of you have been asking for.

What about the immense update the PSN store is receiving? Videos and music stores are actually being extended to other regions, unlike the XBox 360's Netflix service. Not to mention comics. Saying you don't care about any of this doesn't exactly negate the fact that this is going to appeal to a lot of other users.

And the 3.00 firmware update, which brings PSN yet anoter step closer to XBL.

If you're wondering about the GT5 '09 announcement that people were expecting, look no further than TGS, September 24-27.

[10:19] People who preorder Gran Turismo 5 on PS3 between October 1-10 will receive a free download of Gran Turismo PSP.

That's a winning combo.

A $299 system that serves not only as a great multimedia hub, but also a games console offering a library of great exclusives and free online. The argument that the 360 has a bigger/better library of games doesn't sit well with me. Firstly, that does not mean I can't own a PS3 too. Secondly, if I had to choose between a 360 and a PS3, why buy a 360 over a PS3 now when I could have done it a year ago?

The truth: In the past year, apart from a bunch of multi-plats shared with the PS3, the XBox 360 has only the following to crow about: Netflix and Avatars. The 360 is stagnating.

On the other hand, the PS3 has: LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2, inFamous, Playstation Home. Video and Music stores.

You can be a stubborn fanboy. Or you can be a gamer.

Once again, thanks for reading.

lymb

I thought that sonys conference was pretty amazing.

Sony did great. Why are we still bothered by the TC's post. He is obviously a mindf**k

TBH I didn't know Gamescon was that big of an event to win or lose.

[QUOTE="gago-gago"]

Just wondering, what is GamesCom and will the other gaming companies like Nintendo and MS have a conference too?

PSdual_wielder

MS's conference is about to start FYI.

cool hopefully they got some games

sony failed with no b/c in the 3.0 update, thats all i wanted

@ dok_dx: i wasn't expecting these replies but yeah, they provided a good laugh. i'm glad you enjoyed my post. or theirs. =P

@Zero_epyon: thanks for trying, but my pointing out that Sony did well has only gone to show the ignorance of some cows here.

@Mythomniac, darthogre & Lionheart08: Sorry to disappoint, but I was here to point out why Sony didn't 'lose', not point out that Sony won GamesCom.

ppl look at the title the word lost is in braquets, seriously stop jumping to conclusion right away

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[QUOTE="lymb"]

Instead of jumping to conclusions, how about reading my post and then understanding that the title was a hook, and my post an attempt to debunk why lemmings would say Sony did poorly at GamesCom, like they did for E3.

lymb

waaaait.

It's my fault that people don't read my post? That's news to me.

And it's also my fault that people don't see those quotation marks around the word Lost.

Like Why Sony 'Lost' GamesCom, and not Why Sony Lost GamesCom?

Who's getting defensive here?

I did the same in my previous thread and it went fine. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26908258

You could apologise for a misunderstanding, but you chose to push the blame onto me. Thats real sweet of you.

a new ps3 model and a price cut is pretty awesome to me. my only wish that they should have not change the font.

The first announcement was the PS3 Slim. After getting it, they downplay it by saying.

lymb

Some people posing the problems are legit though, like myself :P

I just said I will be waiting for a couple months on the slim version because Sony's history with the slim models having overheating problems. I don't see anything wrong with that statement. I haven't seen other people stating overheating issues that you would be referring to.

ps3 lost gamecon because of this http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9170844&type=product&id=1218043606347 eMachines - Desktop with AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core Processor 4050e 3GB 250 GB Harddrive. Our Price:$329.99 ps3 299$ LOLZvideogamedead03

[QUOTE="heretrix"]

[QUOTE="lymb"]

Instead of jumping to conclusions, how about reading my post and then understanding that the title was a hook, and my post an attempt to debunk why lemmings would say Sony did poorly at GamesCom, like they did for E3.

waaaait.

It's my fault that people don't read my post? That's news to me.

And it's also my fault that people don't see those quotation marks around the word Lost.

Like Why Sony 'Lost' GamesCom, and not Why Sony Lost GamesCom?

Who's getting defensive here?

I did the same in my previous thread and it went fine. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26908258

You could apologise for a misunderstanding, but you chose to push the blame onto me. Thats real sweet of you.

Sarcasm does not work well over the internet.chathuranga

[QUOTE="chathuranga"]Sarcasm does not work well over the internet.Episode_Eve

its sad, I think it speaks more about the users here than about TC. I mean seriously its not that hard to "get" cwhatIdidthar?

And I completely agree with OP.