1. Recognize Final Fantasy as a declining brand, and while still make games in the series, don't rely on it as the sole top series anymore. And after the third part of the Remake, quit with the FFVII focus, the fanbase just isn't as large as thought.
When video games were first being introduced to the general public, they weren’t all that exciting. Most gaming took place in arcades and most arcades didn’t have many game cabinets due to their being very few games to begin with. However, all of this changed when the Atari 2600 was ...
Although released 20+ years ago, but until today – at least at the time this article is written – no other console beat or come close to thePS2 achievementas thebest selling game consoleever! With 155 million units sold, for sure there...
Many of the PlayStation 4’s best exclusives — includingGod of War,Marvel’s Spider-Man,Horizon Zero Dawn, andGhost of Tsushima— feature a fairly similar design scheme. That is to say that each of them has an open world (or large world) that features RPG-lite character-building element...
They had already sold more units of the original PlayStation than all of their competition combined. Their heavy cloud of influence over gamers meant that the next generation of games wasn’t going to start in until the PS2 was on store shelves. On the tail of Sony announcing the technical...
Eventually, Sony's own studios created hit franchises such as God of War, Gran Turismo and Uncharted. "That is a distinct advantage and has helped drive Sony's dominant lead over Xbox in units sold over the past two cycles," McNealy said. ...
complete with natty clear casings, are even rarer, though. Only 5500 units were ever made, with the vast majority of these released in a blister pack rather than the more traditional box. Nowadays, they go for several hundred dollars, far more than their original price which was around just...
“As developers [of Demon’s Souls], we are already changing the way we think about the SSD. We see it not just as storage but also memory, utilizing the speed of the SSD to load data at blistering speeds, bringing you straight back into the ac...
Many of these were actually Sony studios, or at least worked in close partnership with Sony, showing just how devastating the manufacturer's new focus on AAA console development over everything else has been. In terms of Sony studios, the end of the handheld line has been a particularly ...
released the Compaq Portable in November of 1982. Compaq anticipated sales of up to $30 million. To their astonishment, they ended up making a total sale of $111 million in the first year. Even though IBM had sold 750,000 machines in the same year, Compaq still sold over 53,000...