Thursday, September 29, 2005
What have Sony ever done for the games industry Reg ?
You know what ? Sony piss me off ! And heres why ! They've done pretty much fuck all to get where they are today in the games industry ! Everything they've sold is through bullshit marketing, where quality is worth sod all and making shit look like gold is everything. Innovation ? Great ideas ? Yeah right, bollocks - all they've done is attracted the chavs and got the kids thinking that Playstation is cool because they can play games with swear words in. Wow, I'm impressed.
Sega are unfortunatly gone now, at least from the hardware side of things, but at least there are competitors around that want to progress the industry forward beyond getting the next bloody GTA game on the shelves. Nintendo might be going a bit senile in their autumn years, but at least they've still got the balls to try something new when it comes to hardware - although some games without the same bloody characters from the past 20 years in would be nice ! Those cows only have so much milk for christ sake ! Thing is, Nintendo are losing alot of third party support and this latest controller of theirs isn't going to help matters. They're very stubborn in their ways, which could lead to the same fate as Sega faced.
The main competitor to Sony is of course Microsoft, who have done well to get their foot in the door and I have to say have made me a happy gamer since the arrival of the XBox. But before then, I'd owned pretty much every games console thats ever been out and like any other hardcore gamer, was interested in seeing what the Playstation had to offer when it emerged. I buy the console at launch and of course one thing that sticks in my mind is the demo Sony released. Remember the T-Rex stomping along ? Remember how nice that Manta Ray looked ? Cause I do. Remember the games that came out on Playstation that looked like those demos ? Cause I fucking don't ! Although games like Wipeout and Tekken were fun at the time, the main memories I have of the PS1 are constant returns to the poxy shops to have the faulty consoles replaced and those fucking rancid, god awful, hair and dust humping bitch discs !
What in the name of christ was that black coating supposed to be good for ! Well, besides maybe increasing software sales cause you had to keep replacing the bastards after they got scratched from the oxygen in the room skiming the surface ! But then, the only competitor at that time was Sega with the Saturn and Nintendo with the N64 - both with hardly any games cause they had practically no third party support and the bullshit Sony marketing wheel had started to turn.
Then came the PS2 and wouldn't you know it, another demo. This time it was a very nice looking little duck demo. "This is what the games could look like !" And with that, the audience masterbated and Sega died as a hardware developer. Now, lets look at all those cool games that came out that looked as good as that duck demo.... Oh, wait a minute ! Oh yeah ! We can't because there fucking aren't any !
But hey, at least the reliability of the PS2 was improved over the last console right ? Yeah right, bollocks ! I took that poxy thing back practically as many times as the PS1 ! In fact, this time around, you even had the creator of the Resident Evil series come out and say that faulty PS2's contributed towards Sony's sales figures due to the Japanese finding it cheaper to just buy a new console, rather than get it repaired.
Now of course, Microsoft are around and not only that, have gotten noticed and are releasing the XBox 360 well in advance to a release of the PS3. Shitting their pants over this, what do Sony do ? Release ingame footage to show how great their next console will be ? Yeah right, not when the games look no different. To the Sony marketing mobile ! We'll shove a bunch of new demos out and some bullshit CGI vids and use that key line "this is what the games could look like !" We'll also talk about PS2 sales figures like we do in every speech for about an hour and sink to petty name calling for good measure... Ken, what can we say to make Microsoft look stupid ?
Ken Kutaragi: "uhhhhhh, 360 rook rike Xbox 1.5 !"
HAHA ! Very funny Ken that'll show em ! And it won't make us look like cunts at all when the PS3 comes out and looks no different ! Brilliant !
And that people, is why I fucking hate Sony.
posted @ 4:08 pm
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