Bruce Everiss: "Is it worth developing for PS3?" Pump it,

*Sparky · Jun 23, 2009

http://www.bruceongames.com/
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3277020
http://seekingalpha.com/article/144724-ps3-causes-heartache-for-sony

The problems of the PS3 are multiple. It has a quirky new CPU architecture and a poor GPU which acts as a bottleneck, hobbling the capabilities of the machine. If this weren’t enough there is the unavoidable fact that the PS3 isn’t selling very well. We are in mid cycle now, the point at which sales volumes should be ramping up. And for the PS3, they aren’t. The main reason for this is price, the PS3 is still vastly too expensive for the market and is cruelly exposed by the bargain that is the Xbox 360.

Sony are caught between a rock and a hard place. The PS3 design contained so many newly developed bits that it was, and remains, very expensive to manufacture. But Sony are not in good financial health so do not have the resources to subsidise a price reduction. Already they have lost billions on the PS3 project. It has proved to be probably the biggest loss maker in the history of video gaming.

And now things are getting even worse for Sony. Activision is the biggest game publisher and their boss is Bobby Kotick. He is not happy with the PS3:

“I’m getting concerned about Sony; the PlayStation 3 is losing a bit of momentum and they don’t make it easy for me to support the platform. It’s expensive to develop for the console, and the Wii and the Xbox are just selling better. Games generate a better return on invested capital on the Xbox than on the PlayStation”. And this unhappiness becomes a threat: “They have to cut the price, because if they don’t, the attach rates are likely to slow. If we are being realistic, we might have to stop supporting Sony”.

In the real world very few games are actually developed for the PS3. They are mainly developed for the Xbox 360 and then converted to run on the PS3. So things are very bad when that conversion cost is becoming uneconomic.
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Pump it,

bleagh · Jun 23, 2009

So that's confirmed then. It is Bruce.

MegaGreenbean · Jun 23, 2009

I guess I should get a ps3 then, see what all the fuss is about, seems very popular in these threads.

Kayamon · Jun 23, 2009

What's with the "Pump it," ?

bleagh · Jun 23, 2009

Kayamon said: ↑

What's with the "Pump it," ?
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It's a long story that is best not aired here. There is a thread in the private forums about it.

EvaUnit02 · Jun 23, 2009

bleagh said: ↑

There is a thread in the private forums about it.
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There is?

inpHilltr8r · Jun 23, 2009

It's in the secret forum.

bleagh · Jun 23, 2009

EvaUnit02 said: ↑

There is?
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Well there was a thread...

edit: apparently not. There was a FB thread but not specifically mentioning Pump It.

Move along please.

PeterM · Jun 23, 2009

Sorry, what is it that I should be pumping?

Chigley · Jun 24, 2009

Pump it.

Puppy · Jun 24, 2009

Well, there SHOULD be a thread in the private forums explaining the pump it thing because now I MUST KNOW.

LHS · Jun 24, 2009

Bruce who?
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,109063/
Oh, a Marketing credit for the Windows version of Prisoner of War. Nice!

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