Archive for October, 2009
SkyTV To Hit PS3?
The XBox 360 recently got the SkyTV service seemingly exclusively, but it appears that the same service may be hitting up the PlayStation 3 relatively soon. According to this article on Paidcontent, there was a snippet in a 277 page public document released by SkyTV that stated:
The deal to provide Sky’s channels on the PS3 platform has not yet been made public and is confidential to Sky.
The document has since removed the line from the document, but this goes to show that the 360 may not have the SkyTV service exclusively after all. If you feel like reading the entire document, you can check it out here.
Source
Uncharted 2 Sells 1 Million!
Posted by Jay in QuickNews, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves on October 30th, 2009
This actually quite a milestone for a PS3 exclusive, but it looks like Uncharted 2 sold over 1 million units since it’s release worldwide, and it’s only been out, what, two weeks? Source
God of War 3 Ultimate Edition $100
Posted by Eddie in God of War 3, PS3 on October 30th, 2009
Wow…looks amazing!
Extra’s include:
Dominus Skin
Combat Arena 7 Unique Challenges
Documentary
Heavy Metal Album
Trilogy Soundtrack
Art Book
Pandora’s Box
I’m not a huge GOW fan, but this is one awesome LE/UE game. I have a feeling this will sell like crazy.
Happy Halloween Eve!
How are you getting into the Halloween spirit today?
Did you dress up for work? If so what did you dress up as?
Any fun plans for the weekend?
I would love to see photos of your costumes! Photo of my costume after the jump. I also changed up the header image for Halloween, I’ll change it back on Sunday sometime.
Naughty Dog gets into the Halloween spirit [Update: Double Cash Weekend]
Posted by Tosh in Halloween, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves on October 30th, 2009
At late night Tweet from Naughty Dogs reads “Working late tonight, got a ton of things that need to get done… http://bit.ly/2QbMEQ“. Which links to a photo with some creepy skeletons shown above.
I assume this is hinting at the next DLC, or maybe just a Halloween surprise. What are your thoughts?
[Update]
For the US and Europe, next time you boot up the game. You’ll be prompted with an update which has the following fixes:
Sony Fiscal Q2 (calendar Q3) Financials
Posted by Darrin in Sales Data on October 30th, 2009
You can see full financials here, but I wouldn’t bother. The only interesting bits are overall company revenue dropped, year over year, from 2072.3 billion yen to 1661.2 while profit dropped from +11.0 billion yen to -32.6 billion yen.
There are some interesting game hardware/software breakdown numbers. I left these in fiscal quarters, so add one quarter to get the corresponding calendar quarter:
| Platform | 2008 Q1 | 2008 Q2 | 2008 Q3 | 2008 Q4 | 2008 Total | 2009 Q1 | 2009 Q2 | 2009 Forecast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS3 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 10.1 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 13 |
| PSP | 3.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 2.1 | 14.1 | 1.3 | 3 | 15 |
| PS2 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 5 |
Beyond that their entire report sounds like a big long excuse. They blame everything on their older products, “revenues/profits are down because PS2 is slowing down as expected”. The unfavorable change in exchange rate is a very valid point, but I’m tired of hearing their financial statements moan about it every quarter.
And why did they move PlayStation products out of their own “Game” reporting category and into “Networked Products and Services” along with VAIO PCs which really have nothing to do with each other. Are theytrying to obfuscate their performance?
No more 60FPS games from Insomniac.
Posted by Trev in Ratchet & Clank: Crack in Time on October 30th, 2009
Insomniac Games conducted some interesting research into the correlation of Game’s graphics/frame rate and review scores/sales and came up with these two interesting results;
• A higher framerate does not significantly affect the reviews of a game.
• A higher framerate does not significantly affect sales of a game.
You can look at Uncharted 2 (and even Halo 3) as a good example of a great game well recieved with a frame frate of 30FPS. The difference between the frame rates affects how smooth the gameplay is and more importantly how responsive the controls are. Insomniac have decided after this research that gamers/critics are not needing games to be at 60FPS and have decided that in the future they are willing to make the sacrifice in frame rate to make a game look better. Its a shame as I always thought the Resistence games could have been improved greatly with 60 FPS rate like the Call of Duty series.
You can read the full research with all the answers over at the Insomniac Blog.
Golden Joystick Awards Live.
The Golden Joystick Awards are being presented today and you can follow the live blog at http://www.computerandvideogames.com. It has not quite started yet but you can read all about people’s ties and someone setting a speed record on Sonic 2 until it does commence.
These awards were voted for by the gamers, 1,223,646 gamers to be exact. I believe Uncharted 2 was released too late to be counted in the votes but titles such as Killzone 2 and LittleBigPlanet and other exclusives could be up for awards.
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