Sony Not Ready to Abandon PS3 Even With Next-Gen Coming
With next PlayStation being prepared, there is some speculation how Sony will manage the transition from the PS3.
The message? It's not going to be easy to handle two consoles at the same time, but Sony will hold on to the PS3 as a platform in the foreseeable time.
In an interview published by CVG, Sony's managing director for the UK, Fergal Gara, positioned the current PS3 as a viable gaming platform Sony will not drop anytime soon.
"We're nowhere close to giving up on PS3," Gara said. "When you look at the UK market, it's easy to say that current consoles are fading. But if you look at PS3, it's holding up a lot better than others, so it warrants support."
He also indicated that gamers should not be expecting any dramatic price cuts. Those who would want to update from an older PS3 now could opt for the 12 GB entry level model and take their HDD with game data with them.
However, Gara said that there will be some issues when the PS3 is transitioned to the PS4 on the software side. "We do have a challenge to manage that, particularly in terms of dev studio resources," he said. "The more platforms you have, and the amount of rich content you have to deliver on all the systems you are supporting, clearly puts pressure on decisions made across the studio network, which is something we are battling with."
http://egamer.co.za/2012/01/ps2-is-matching-ps-vita-in-sales-this-is-plain-crazy/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/10/sony-hit-hard-in-fy2012-financials-ps3-sales-down/
4.1mil sold ps2's Jan to may2012. Those can't be still on the shelf unless they're still making them correct?
I disagree, when there is money coming in from the PS3 sufficient to pay for supporting it and give healthy profits, it is extremely easy to support both platforms. There is no shortage of skilled people looking for work.
I disagree, when there is money coming in from the PS3 sufficient to pay for supporting it and give healthy profits, it is extremely easy to support both platforms. There is no shortage of skilled people looking for work.
good point... that could explain it entirely
The way I see it, support for the PS3 should be pretty easy now.
What needs to be done (servers, tech support ) has already been done, it's just a matter of maintaining it.
http://egamer.co.za/2012/01/ps2-is-matching-ps-vita-in-sales-this-is-plain-crazy/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/10/sony-hit-hard-in-fy2012-financials-ps3-sales-down/
4.1mil sold ps2's Jan to may2012. Those can't be still on the shelf unless they're still making them correct?
The reason you see no change in PC games are they are made for the lowest common market. Consoles! They have held up the PC in terms of development for a while now. Does it matter?? Not always. I've been playing Batman Arkham Asylum on my PS3 recently and it is still a really good game.
You’re on TH, you know you can get a crap gaming PC for $500. If you dial back settings you can almost match the $2000 games rig on some games. Consoles have held up PC games market that much. Crysis 1 would make the $2000 machine cry and keep crying for years. No $500 budget crap for that game. Cross platform games stopped all that.
PC Games posting 100-200fps is daft. Your screen can only deliver 60fps. Lots of room to do more. My graphics card is an old Nvida 460, It still gets by - that ain't right. I'm going to upgrade when there is a game that needs it. Don't see it hapaning for a while. There is only life left in consoles because people stopped raising the bar. Great for the $500 PC market ... And where is my 4k monitor? /Rant
having problems with games of PSP Vita, their server got hacked and the data got stolen, issues with regain user's trust, and now this..
The hard drives in PS3s are standard 2.5" SATA laptop hard drives. I have upgraded the hard drives in both of my PS3s. The entire process (Backup old hard drive, replace old drive with new, format new drive, and restore data) took about two hours.
The xBox 360 is what requires the special crossover cable that they are oh so willing to sell to you.
only on the original PS3, the newer models don't support HDD swapping. You'd have to take it apart to do the swap which means you void the warranty.
IMO, with PSN it's up in the air, they could add the PS4 to the current network or make it a different one
But with Xbox live I think they will do what they did last time when they phased out xbox1, support the older xbox on it for a bit as well as the new "Xbox" and then drop the older xbox. Keeping only the new "Xbox" on Xbox live.
You clearly have no clue (I was going to assume troll but it looks like you put effort into your opinion, scary). They are pushing hardware manufacturers because they have to develop games for 2, 3, or even 4 separate systems at the same time. This takes a huge amount of time and money that could be better spent on content. Each system has a vastly different architecture, so by having all the systems on a more even playing field they can shorten dev times and focus more on quality.
Take any decent launch game vs any game now, the games now are better. The systems still have life because it takes time to figure out how to best utilize different hardware sets, we've reached that point with current gen consoles and companies want to take the next step.
It's actually the publishers who churn out these games - if the publishers didn't care about having a new game in every series pumped out every year, the quality would be much better.
For example, Call of Duty and CoD 2 were amazing games. Why? Because Infinity Ward (the developer) spent almost 2 years on each game. When Activision (the publisher) bought out IW, they wanted a CoD game every year, so they handed the alternating years to Treyarch. That's why CoD 3, World at War, and Black Ops were so terrible - the publisher was forcing out CoD copies through an unrelated junior developer.
Similar things happened with EA and Bioware. EA rushed development to get Mass Effect 3 out on schedule. What happened? Worst video game ending in recent history. The outrage was incredible.
Battlefield 3 was a success, you say? Well, BF3 has been in development over the last several years. I'm not sure how DICE managed to work that development time into its contract, but it paid the hell off. There are talks about BF4 already, and part of me wonders if EA is going to rush development to release it next fall, or if the will let DICE properly build the game over 2 years. We'll have to see.
I understand that part, because I have upgraded my HDD. It sounds like they were implying you can just take out your drive and put it into the new PS3 coming out, but they should specify it is not a simple process.
So basically you're saying programmers need to get lazy so you can feel better about buying (once) expensive hardware? Crysis 1 had pretty crappy optimization. lack of optimization doesn't equal good.