PS3 Sony reports $312M loss

Is this just Sony though, or are Microsoft and Nintendo also suffering from reduced sales too? From what I recall reading over the last few weeks and months, this is indeed the case, so Sony is not alone.

As for games sales, it's time they try and inject some originality back into the games market. The yearly churning out of titles such as FIFA, Tiger Woods and CoD to name but some must put some people off buying games, fed up of always upgrading to the latest version or not seeing anything different and interesting to buy. Maybe they ought to look at reducing the price of games as they have done in the past, especially in these times of recession. I recall on both the PS1 and PS2 that games used to be £40 on release in the early days but during the life of the console new games then came out at £30. Here we are still paying £40 for new games. As for DLC, if they focused more on making top notch games with some free DLC then folk might be more likely to buy a few more new games.

 

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.

 

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