PS3 Sony reports $312M loss

As gamers we can hardly cry out about originality, look at the biggest sellers, all sequels, in fact in this industry the surefire way to make money is to produce a sequel. I think the price of games is a hinderance and the attempts to stop the second hand market also play a role, if I cant trade a game in, then I cant buy a new game, or least buy as many The economy is in poor shape which means less money spent on non-essentials, so generally not a good time to be an electronics giant.

I think the biggest problem is that all those people lured to gaming by the Wii and kinect etc, are now moving onto other things, they were never core gamers and so they were never going to stick with gaming for the long haul, we could just be seeing the downside for the huge surge in interest in gaming there has been in recent years. I also wonder if the huge success of a few major titles especially in the online arena is killing off sales of software elsewhere. If I am playing BF3, Killzone 3 and uncharted to the exclusion of all else I am not buying and playing other stuff thats out there.

 

Isn't the loss going to be down to pay offs for works at zipper and such companies? Plus the R&D of new stuff like ps4 along with other stuff in development?

I'm a sucker for a good sequel, shame the last few haven't been good :-\

Offline gamers are just pirating games and as they get them for free rather then £40 I don't blame them (i not agreeing with theft, I just think some games are overpriced)

I still have games in there wrappers and some I have only played once this combined with the ps+ freebies seems to have stopped my spending. Although in the next few months there's a load of games I have pre ordered.

 

I honestly blame the decline of gaming on the publishers.

Forcing games companies to hit target dates when a game is still buggy, forcing the prices to remain high, the prices of downloadable version of the game in particular are on par with the RRP, which is almost always more than what you can buy the game for in a shop, which at least you can then sell on.

All the bullshit about trying to stop second hand games sales. Having some of the core game locked off so you need to pay more to unlock it via "DLC"

And then add all the non-worthwhile DLC that also tends to get released for a vast majority of games.

These are the things that are bringing the gaming market to it's knee's, consumers have had enough of the piss taking and are being a lot more careful about their purchases.

I used to average a new game every month and continue to play generally one or two core games for a longer period, in the past for me this has been Socom and Battlefield games, but I would regularly buy other games, complete them, have a bash online and then drop it a couple of weeks later when there's no interest in the online part.

Financially this is still viable to me, but there's fewer games coming out that are anything but boring sequels anyway, games I already know whether I will or won't like due to their predecessor, so that almost cuts out any impulse buying straight away, but the piss take of unfinished games and the constant DLC has basically made me stop buying games completely. I now stick to just those one or two core games and simply don't bother with the others, choosing to find other hobbies to sink my hard earned money on.