The man literally wanted to end his tenure with a mic drop. I miss him (granted Shawn was still a good replacement, and having Adam Boyes on board that gen did wonders with developer and consumer outreach).Ahhh, the Jackie T days
Sony's E3 2013 Conference 10th Anniversary: Unveiling PlayStation 4 Design, Pricing, and Used Game Policies
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Last gen really was a repeat of Gen 5
Wii U was the sega saturn, a catastrophic failure down from its's sucessor's all time high for thr company and harder to develop for than its competition
Xbox was the n64 (but instead of 3rd party support issues it was first party) even down to collapsing in all markets besides the anglosphere
Ps4 was the Ps1. Made no lethal mistakes and basicslly had the competition take itself out.
Even down to the "399 ps4 " being similar to the ps1's 299 moment
Luckily the switch didnt end up like the dreamcast
Wii U was the sega saturn, a catastrophic failure down from its's sucessor's all time high for thr company and harder to develop for than its competition
Xbox was the n64 (but instead of 3rd party support issues it was first party) even down to collapsing in all markets besides the anglosphere
Ps4 was the Ps1. Made no lethal mistakes and basicslly had the competition take itself out.
Even down to the "399 ps4 " being similar to the ps1's 299 moment
Luckily the switch didnt end up like the dreamcast
This fucking XV trailer was god tier even though none of it ended up in the game
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcUSXub_ypU
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcUSXub_ypU
People need to understand that what mostly killed he Xbox was the confusing message.
Anti consumer features have been sold to people for decades but as long as it doesn't overtake what you're selling and you have your pitch nailed down you'll suceed.
MS had to set up a page to clear up their PR,sometimes even Xbox themselves would say one thing and then contradict it the next day.
View: https://youtu.be/1StPJgWkN-U
I think Sony actually had to do their E3 marketing with how to play used games, mainly because no one was believing what they had said before.
At some point before E3 Sony had said that PS4 or their nextgen system would play used games, and wasn't going to do always online, and that it be up to 3rd party if they wished to do anything like that.
Look at articles like this one here, basically making a story out of nothing, especially after Sony said PS4 will play used games
https://www.wired.com/2013/02/playstation-4-used-games/
The internet was convinced that the 2 next gen systems would block used games for some reason, "Sony is going to do it too" is something you saw a lot in forums back then.
At some point before E3 Sony had said that PS4 or their nextgen system would play used games, and wasn't going to do always online, and that it be up to 3rd party if they wished to do anything like that.
Look at articles like this one here, basically making a story out of nothing, especially after Sony said PS4 will play used games
https://www.wired.com/2013/02/playstation-4-used-games/
The internet was convinced that the 2 next gen systems would block used games for some reason, "Sony is going to do it too" is something you saw a lot in forums back then.
literally one of the best game trailers ever put together. Goddamn.
This trailer goes so hard. Definitely the most hype moment for me, I just could not believe what I was seeing.
I miss when the PlayStation team had personality , now they're just a bunch of corporate stiffs.
I still go back and watch it sometimes. Too bad it wasn't meant to be.
This was a huge bummer especially coming off of the even worse Xbox conference. They announced that they're changing to a paid subscription just to play your games online and more than half of the gaming world applauded them just for not going as far as MS did with regressive anti-consumer practices. They basically sandwiched in their 599 moment in between bullet points that they wont have always online DRM and that used games will still work (which should be baseline expectations), and that trick actually worked.