SCEA's John Hight announces PlayStation 3 to have episodic games |
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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) director John Hight announced episodic content for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) in the Independent Games Summit at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). A little background on Mr. Hight: He is responsible for some of the big changes in Sony such as the Santa
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BlastFactor and signing thatgamecompany which developed the game flOw. The release of these episodic content is slated for this year around mid-summer. There are no announcements regarding what the games will be although John Hight has hinted that some will be more like interactive TV while other releases will be taking existing content and spreading it out a bit. In the end, he also mentioned the fact that some fairly small games which will become available in the future may have hundreds of hours of play. This sounds like more value for your money if they can pull it off.
This move is also like a direct challenge to the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA). It might be that SCEA is looking to break the stranglehold that Microsoft has had in the online console gaming market. Whether this will be a success or not depends on the quality of the releases. If it does take off, we can expect Microsoft to strike back with new innovations. Thus, the console wars continue.
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a direct rip-off. Trying to bump off Live would be like trying to bump off the iPod. Like it or not it's the industry leader suckas.
I personally don't want to buy little games with multipul updates unless they are truly good. I would rather buy games on Blu-ray and maybe have sequels if they are good. To me games like Calling All Cars seem like crap. I did buy Flow but I still prefer enough true next gen games that push the envelope. I hope game companies don't scale down in the future in favor of more downloadable games.
S your accusing SONY of stealing Microsoft's idea? And Microsoft is well known for its original idea's isn't it. God, help this "person" pull their head out of their ass and if you can try not to make their breath smell like *****"
It dont matter, as you are seeing now the result will always be the same Xbox Live will always be 10 steps ahead of the competitions terrible online service..
It's the developers way of making a few bucks without having to make a full fledged game.they'll probably use the money from these small games to help fund the bigger ones.
xbox live may be better but, #1 it costs money so it should and microsoft has more online experience, and #2 for being free and only a few months old PS Net is pretty damn good. Ipod may be the leader but id much rather have my psp.
PREACH ON BROTHER!!!! I much rather have my psp than an Ipod. I pop in my 4 gig stick and enjoy my games, videos, music and movies on a much better screen. And lets be honest how much music do u actually listen to? who really listens to all 60 gigs of music? TheSh0wstopper
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