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Sony Price Drop Won't Affect Vita and Valve pleased with Sony |
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Despite lucking out with the security of it's users, Sony has turned everything around in just two months. From dropping the price of their console to the amount of great publicity and acclaim their games are getting, Sony seems to know how to really make the best of a bad situation.
Gabe Newell, Valve President, praised Sony for their recent choices with third-party developers and Sony's online strategy for the PS3, which allows third parties a lot more freedom and flexibility to provide content and services. Newell says that Valve will make sure that Sony benefits from this flexibility, and thinks that other developers should follow suit.
"[Sony has] done the scary thing and I think it's up to us as developers to make sure Sony and its customers are rewarded," Newell said to gaming website Develop. "We and other developers have to show we're creating value to Sony for opening up its network. We have to show them it's a smart business move." He said that the release of the first DLC for Portal 2 would show the value of Sony's decision to allow Steam onto the PS3, and that Valve would work hard to increase the "overall play value" of the game.
Sony also came out this week and were incredibly happy and glad to calm investors as well as consumers on the price drop with the PS3 not going to affect their upcoming handheld. Tech Analyst Michael Pachter was talking with The Sixth Axis about the PS Vita and claimed, "I’m not sure that they are trying to sell both to the same person as alternatives to one another. People who want both...will buy both".
Pachter was well known during the security crisis earlier this year claiming Sony would need to really open up to it's consumers to get their trust which was not too far off the mark. He believes the same transperancy would be needed for the PS Vita launch. "The market for Vita is pretty small, given that it’s an expensive dedicated handheld with primarily hardcore games", but he did continue with people saying that more consumers would compare the Vita to Apple's iPad than to Sony's PS3.
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That's why the PS3 really is picking up in sales, it just has the best line-up at the moment (actually this whole year). And the price drops certainly help aswell - but price isn't everything (3DS anyone?).
If they treat the PSVita like they treat the PS3 now, then it'll sell. The main reason the PSP didn't sell well, was because there were no really great games out for it for a long time (and even then the good ones were few and far between).
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When you think back to your favourite consoles there at least ten or so key games and with games costing about 40-60 each, the game or console company will more often than not make back their money, multiply this by millions of console owners (excluding the current marketability of Downloadable Games), you have a cashcow on your hands to last at least a few years.
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For example, Mario and Zelda. While it's true they continue to reinvent the wheel with them, at the same time, where are the new or fresh franchises?
But yeah, Sony has done a very good job at keeping a steady stream of great games going for their console.
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Sony seems to be the only company with a strong lineup of releases announced right now.
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