Sony bash weekly: Developers are Steering Away from PS3

[doobiwan]

http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=13291

According to a BusinessWeek Online report, some developers are actually steering resources away from the PS3 in favor of the more affordable Wii from Nintendo and even the Xbox 360. Hirokazu Hamamura, president of publisher and game industry researcher Enterbrain, believes that Sony's next-gen console might not be a smash hit the way previous PlayStation systems have been. "Many developers think the console's initial high price will lead to slow sales and are holding off on creating games for Sony," Hamamura explained.

 

[b_boy69sa]

Just saw on Megagames.com that the first PS3's are being rolled out, there are even now conspiracy theories that Sony will have more PS3's than orginally planned for the launch, sneaky buggers pushing up the prices lol.

 

[S.AintheU.S]

Haha, guess they won't sell out soon huh?

 

[useless]

if Sony can throw in a free 32" LCD HDMI-enabled TV with the PS3 then i might consider it...

 

[doobiwan]

:rofl: @ useless

That Asustek rumour is that they'll be manufacturing 200k units a month. which means that if they're at full capacity now, they'll have maximum 800k units by launch date. Ouch!

 

[useless]

didnt they say there would be 6 million units for launch worldwide?

 

[doobiwan]

2 mil for Launch 6 mil by march next year. Who wants to put money on it

 

[The Big Firefly]

what a bunch off cr@p.. ..sony is really gonna suffer on this one and when/if the ps4 comes out nobody is gonna buy...

 

[doobiwan]

:lol:

The wall Street Journals getting in on the bashing no as well:

http://gonintendo.com/?p=3963

 

[useless]

to be honest, i think Sony can still get away with this winning... simply label the PS3 to a next-gen Microwave with a builtin PSP!

 

[lilDeath]

and it must be able to make coffee, sure winner IMO

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

That's what happens when you make a console to next-gen (i.e. developers find it very complicated to create a workable game) compared to Wii/360.

I also heard they rolled out the developer fits extremely late.

 

[doobiwan]

I also heard they rolled out the developer fits extremely late.

No I believe they've been having those since they first heard how hard it was to program for