Game creators need the ‘core-market’ consoles to hit ‘PS2 sales’, says Miles Jacobson
The games industry will suffer more staff cuts and studio closures unless its ‘core-market’ consoles begin to reach PS2-levels.
That was the warning offered by Miles Jacobson, studio head at Sports Interactive.
“At the moment I don’t think the Xbox 360 or PS3 are completely mass-market devices,” said Jacobson. “The Xbox platform has sold better than before, but the PS3 has not at all reached the levels that the PS2 did.”
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Hmmm..
...But surely this is to do with better competition? The Playstation 3 isn't going to ever hit the highs of what the PS2 hit due to the fact there are two other strong competitors out there i.e the Wii and Xbox 360.
Yes ok the PS2 had competition from the Dreamcast and Gamecube etc but come on we're talking much better competition here. Lets face it if the Wii hadn't come up with all this motion controller device would it have sold 40+ million? No not even half of that, and people would of bought either a Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 instead.
You know it makes sense.
better games
are there enopugh core consumers for both toreach PS2 levels? i doubt it. not yet anyway.
but even then if studios want to avoid closing down then they should be very careful which games they release.
as a consumer i'd rather there were fewer games available if it meant they were all of a higher quality. seriously, there's some dire crap out there that people should have never wasted their time and money on. worse sill is that consumers end up spending their time and money on this stuff.
maybe the industry need to cut the crap to survive, not sell more crap.
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