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Sony Admits PlayStation Move Has Been A Failure

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Sony UK VP and MD Fergal Gara recently spoke to the official PlayStation magazine about Sony’s Wii Remote clone, the PlayStation Move. Gara admitted that Sony hadn’t done a good enough job supporting the hardware with quality titles, and suggested that the PlayStation Move hardware is best relegated to the causal market.

“What I’m thinking is that it’s better suited towards the casual market, certainly, but we also are pretty clear that we could have done a better job on the titles we’ve had and we’ve brought to market for the PlayStation Move. As you’ve said, great tech, probably not so great applications so far. So there’s a job for us to do on the strength of games, and having seen what’s forthcoming gives me great hope that we can do a better job with Move as we look forward. So we’re certainly not forgetting about it.”

Sony Patents Wii U Like Design

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Online gaming publication Games Beat has revealed that Sony issued a Wii U like patent during 2010. The patent is Titled Position-Dependent Gaming 3-D controller, and Handheld as a Remote. Here’s a brief description of the intriguing patent which bears a striking resemblance to what Nintendo has proposed with Wii U:

Methods and systems for using a position of a mobile device with an integrated display as an input to a video game or other presentation are presented. Embodiments include rendering an avatar on a mobile device such that it appears to overlay a competing user in the real world. Using the mobile device’s position, view direction, and the other user’s mobile device position, an avatar (or vehicle, etc.) is depicted at an apparently inertially stabilized location of the other user’s mobile device or body. Some embodiments may estimate the other user’s head and body positions and angles and reflect them in the avatar’s gestures.

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Nintendo 3DS Sits At Top Of Japanese Charts, Twelve Nintendo Games In The Top Twenty

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This weeks Media Create Japanese software charts show that Capcom’s Resident Evil Revelations managed to secure second place on its week of release. The software charts show that there were a grand total of twelve Nintendo related games in the top twenty overall. The Nintendo 3DS once against topped the Japanese hardware charts, easily outselling the competition selling 84,789.

  • 01./00. [PS3] Armored Core V
  • 02./00. [3DS] Resident Evil: Revelations
  • 03./00. [PSV] Tales of Innocence R
  • 04./01. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
  • 05./03. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G
  • 06./00. [360] Armored Core V
  • 07./04. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land
  • 08./00. [PS3] The Idolmaster
  • 09./02. [3DS] Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure
  • 10./07. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go: Shine / Dark
  • 11./00. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Mokuba no Kiseki
  • 12./12. [WII] Just Dance Wii
  • 13./10. [PS3] Warriors Orochi 3
  • 14./13. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3)
  • 15./11. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII-2
  • 16./14. [WII] Wii Party
  • 17./15. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Remote Plus
  • 18./19. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends
  • 19./17. [WII] Mario Kart Wii
  • 20./16. [WII] Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
  1. Nintendo 3DS: 84,789
  2. PlayStation 3: 22,924
  3. PlayStation Vita: 18,942
  4. PlayStation Portable: 16,008
  5. Wii: 10,369
  6. Nintendo DS: 1,918
  7. Xbox 360: 1,235
  8. PlayStation 2: 713

Sony Admits It’s Encouraged By Sales Of The Nintendo 3DS, But Claims 3DS Doesn’t Pose A Danger

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SCEE president and CEO Jim Ryan has told MCV that the company has been watching Nintendo 3DS sales closely and are encouraged by the systems performance in recent times, though he refuses to acknowledge that the 3DS poses a danger to Vita. Sony’s PlayStation Vita is currently struggling to win over Japanese consumers.

“One of the encouraging things about 3DS’ sales performance at Christmas is that it is confounding the naysayers who say that there is no room in the market for a dedicated handheld gaming device,” he told MCV in an exclusive interview.

“And to that extent we were encouraged by how 3DS did over the last month.

But doesn’t the appetite for 3DS pose a danger to Vita? Apparently not.

“There are two distinct markets,” Ryan added.

“The quality, the immersiveness, the richness of the experience that we believe we are going to offer on Vita, way exceeds anything that we believe to be available on any smartphone.”

 

Sony Or Microsoft To Bow Out Of Next-Gen Console Race?

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Nanea Reeves, chief product officer for Gaikai cloud gaming service believes that one major console manufacturer won’t be creating a next generation device. Industry Gamers seem to believe that Reeves has inside knowledge and that perhaps the console manufacturer will instead create a major cloud gaming partnership with Gaikai instead of creating brand new hardware. Any guesses as to which console manufacturer it will be?

“Not all of the current console makers will have one more generation. That will be the big news at E3.”

Next Xbox And PlayStation 4 Will Be Shown At E3 To Steal Wii U Thunder

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Respected UK games industry publication MCV is reporting that an extremely reliable source has told them that both Microsoft and Sony will be showing off their next generation consoles at this summers E3 event. It will mark the very first time in the show’s 17-year history that three fresh, rival console formats will be competing against each other.

“Obviously we can’t reveal our sources. But you have my personal word on this – the source is exemplary, 100 per cent concrete, ultra high level.”

MCV writer Ben Parfitt on Twitter

Sony Says Sorcery Shows Why PlayStation Move Is Better Than Wii

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Sony is under the impression that its forthcoming action RPG Sorcery shows precisely why the PlayStation Move is superior to the Wii, citing that its tighter, cleaner and more precise than anything Nintendo’s console has to offer. Does anyone actually think Sorcery could overthrow The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword as the pinnacle of motion controlled games?

‘Oh I can just button mash my way through.’ By actually mastering the system, I can feel like I’m a more powerful gamer. The fact that Move is so precise, it lets us create that very technical focused, skill-based motion control game.

“I think this title does an excellent job of showing what makes Move a better and different system than other motion controls that are out there.”

“It’s tighter, it’s cleaner, it’s more precise – I don’t think you could do a game like this on either Kinect or Wii. I don’t think technically they’d be able to support this kind of gameplay.”

 

 

Nintendo: UK Interactive Entertainment Says Nintendo Should Stop Making Consoles

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UK Interactive Entertainment chairman Andy Payne has told attendees at the Develop Liverpool conference that he believes both Nintendo and Sony should stop making video games consoles and should instead embrace mobile platforms such as the iPhone or Android smartphones. What do you think to his comments?

“I think it would be a massive relief to both Sony and Nintendo to become content-only,” he said. “Right now, they might not even know it. You know that thing where you take drugs and you think it’s the best thing in the world? Then you get off them and go, ‘What was I doing?’

“Imagine any Mario or Zelda property being on the iPhone or an Android phone. They’d get £10 or £15 for it, because people would want to pay to have it on their phone. They would. And that would be amazing. And Sony’s content is amazing. I mean, Uncharted … it’s just brilliant! I’m not knocking those guys, because they really do make fantastic games. And when we kind of get that bit over, wouldn’t it be refreshing to have Nintendo really making stuff for the iPhone, Android, and all the other stuff that’s around?”

Nintendo: Sony’s Super Smash Bros Clone Is Basically Confirmed And Is Named Title Fight

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Rumours emerged a month or so ago that Sony were working on their own Super Smash Bros clone and it now appears as though the title is coming into fruition. According to the Paul Gale Network the game is named Title Fight and is a joint venture from Sony and Superbot Entertainment.

The project is said to feature a host of characters from Sony’s first-party studios including  Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, Twisted Metal’s Sweet Tooth, Killzone’s Colonel Radec, Fat Princess, Kratos, Sly Cooper and PaRappa the Rapper. Super Bot and Sony are currently on the verge of announcing the game.