Ok, so can anyone give me an email address or some contact info for the guy that wrote the Newsweek article? If he's using third party publishers as his source for determining market trends, he's sorely missing who to learn from. The average third party publisher knows almost nothing about where the industry is headed, nor do they know where it's been. They only know what is happening now, at the precise moment they talk to you. Some are better than others, but most are almost exactly like my description. What he's hearing from the 3rd parties is that they weren't ready for the Wii's success, and they are looking for any opportunity to look good from it. I mean, eight or nine months ago, these same publishers were announcing tons of now canceled or now non-exclusive games for the PS3.
Then there's the whole fact that he considers video games as a North American domestic industry in his article. His perspective was terrible in that regard, since Japan houses most of the third party publishers that are able to turn a profit with anything that isn't a non-game on a computer or Nintendo system. But whatever.
And then forget the fact that one of the top selling games in April was indeed a hardcore gamer's game for the Wii, despite the packaging. But he hasn't played it. He and his bud can only criticize Wii-Play because it isn't for them or they haven't played it around any friends and family. But hey, who am I to judge the console industry, I'm only more accurate than he and his third party sources are, which, IMO is not very difficult to be, so whatever.
Edit: I forgot this part "the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo with Zone of the Enders" describing the PS2's after launch line-up. It's like Zone of the Enders wasn't really a game from his perspective. I wonder if he played it, or if they only reason he bought was to try to see Solid without pants.
Topic: Sony getting hit Hard lately (Read 872431 times)
