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Sony Spain talks PlayStation 4 [Yoshida: Better Visuals The "Gene" Of PlayStation]
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Fully agreed. People are often surprised that I'm the one in the relationship who plays more JRPGs and my partner exclusively plays WRPGs. They see a pile of games on the floor and go "oh she likes Final Fantasy?" and my meek reply is "that's for me..." and then they go into the study and find a whole heap of PC RPGs sitting near her desk.daviyoung said:
What developers need to realize (and a huge reason why Nintendo have always been popular with both sexes) is that you can't try and pander to a single sex and expect success. Make a game fun without the unneccessary trappings that try to attract to a certain crowd and you'll attract both spectrums.
CadetMahoney
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PS3 is nowhere near 1080p and 60fps for complex games. Lot's of room for improvement next gen.Nintendo Ate My Children said:
Live offers exclusives and diversity. The last Sony retail exclusive that was a system seller was MGS4, just sayin'.Replicant said:
But he's from Spain and so is the guy who agreed with his translation.Corto said:I'm not convinced the guys with the Killzone avatars translating skills are superior to the websites who ran the stories, but what do I know. I failed Spanish
The link back even says they used google translate.
Gram Negative Cocci
Member
CaseyTappy said:
So true. Whenever there was a "we need next-gen, nao!" from PC gamers console people were "wait a second, look at Uncharted 3... 10 year plan!"
Now it backfires. So much backfires
Corto said:I'm not convinced the guys with the Killzone avatars translating skills are superior to the websites who ran the stories, but what do I know. I failed Spanish
lol... yes I'm sporting this Killzone 2 avatar, but that doesn't prevent me from being Spaniard
Corto said:All I know about language is that it's highly subject to interpretation, and interpretation is highly subject to bias
Go ahead
come on... there's no bias when in the interview he never refers to the PS4 as a platform 'barely more powerful than PS3'.
lowrider007 said:
Thing is, focusing on making a game for *insert demographic* doesn't usually work out. They usually end up focusing too much on a stereotype (even subconsciously) and that will affect the game and potentially make it a lesser product. Even if it is a really good dev, it is not a good mind set to begin a project with. That's why I would much rather see a diverse group of people in the design team than telling already existing devs to make games for certain demographics. I think we could get much more interesting games that are designed BY a woman than ones that are designed FOR women. Or any other group out there.
Corto said:All I know about language is that it's highly subject to interpretation, and interpretation is highly subject to bias
Go ahead
Lince's interpretation is fine, i'm spanish too, and I think the same about the interview.
Armstrong doesn't know anything about the power of ps4, he believes that sony will focus in other things besides power and gave examples of it (like women market).
I actually think a 10 year plan would be great.Gram Negative Cocci said:So true. Whenever there was a "we need next-gen, nao!" from PC gamers console people were "wait a second, look at Uncharted 3... 10 year plan!"
Now it backfires. So much backfires
Games and the industry place too much importance on bleeding edge graphics. The focus should be on expanding gaming and getting a fixed-spec standard into as many homes as possible over a ten year generation. The film industry's mass support for the VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray formats should be the model. Yeah, PCs will be much more capable, but so what? It would be much better for the industry to go for mass adoption than the niche that's willing to shell out for the latest hardware. And as the generation goes on, more and more baseline PCs would be able to handle the console spec.
Very true.Lissar said:
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
daviyoung said:
I'm not saying games should be made to appeal 'specifically' to woman, I agree that games that are androgynous are more successful which is why I used Uncharted as an example, I think with a few tweaks a game like Uncharted could come very close to a title that 'could' appeal to both sexes equally, I don't think we need to have 'cartoony' androgynous games just to get women on board with gaming, I think we need a bit more maturity injected into this goal, and I don't agree that "Girls want to play everything boy's want to play.", not atm anyway, yes of course your going to find more women or girls that are interested in titles that we deem more suited to men in this day and age and certainly on a forum like this, but generally speaking that is not the case, not from my observations anyway.
I hope (and will presume for the moment) that this man was speculating out of place.
Just lately Tretton's comments about Vita and needing to offer high end experiences on new hardware, along with Vita's approach, made me hopeful Sony would continue to push my hardcore/techie buttons going forward.
I dunno, we'll see how things pan out, but these comments don't seem particularly authoritative.
Just lately Tretton's comments about Vita and needing to offer high end experiences on new hardware, along with Vita's approach, made me hopeful Sony would continue to push my hardcore/techie buttons going forward.
I dunno, we'll see how things pan out, but these comments don't seem particularly authoritative.
Gram Negative Cocci
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Krev said:
You want mass adoption?
Get one console out there. Not three. We need one console future just like with Blu-Ray players and TVs. Make it uberpowerful, shaming PCs but make it one standard hardware. Get Nintendo on board for controller, Microsoft for online backend and Sony for hardware.
Phonomezer
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10 year generation sounds vile, no thanks. I'll stick to my 5/6 year hardware cycle thank you!
Sidewinder
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kevm3 said:
Quoted for truth. While you could cater to the casual crowd with a cheap PS3.5 with some innovative controls or whatever right from the start, a PS3.5 won't cut it for hardcore gamers (in the long run).
A powerful PS4 with a decent price point, will attract the hardcore hungry for some new graphics out of the gate and will be able to sell to the casuals in the long run.
Your overall point about developing games for everyone is true, but this particular point isn't. There are differences between the male and female brain, and these bear themselves out in a lot of different ways. Brain Sex is a good read on the subject if you're interested.daviyoung said:
Baller. PhD
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Corto said:
Gram Negative Cocci
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Narag said:
Not with 3 companies backing it up financially. Make the loss split amongst Sony, MS and Big N.
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
daviyoung said:
It's close, but don't agree it's completely androgynous, but I guess that's a subjective point, either way, my point still stands, I think we need more games based on Uncharted's design philosophy, a mature title that appeals to both sexes.
intheinbetween
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I don't get it..
I'm spaniard as well and I know the OP translation is pretty accurate:
If we're talking about which translation is the right one in this matter, that is the accurate one.
I'm spaniard as well and I know the OP translation is pretty accurate:
If we're talking about which translation is the right one in this matter, that is the accurate one.
Fredescu said:
There are always studies that try and to prove or disprove the power of social conditioning at early ages. One of these studies is commissioned nearly every year. It's obvious that men and women are 'wired' differently, that would come under biological need, but there's no real reason to expect taste in entertainment to be so gender-specific.
tafer said:
That's another thing that really, really gets me. I hate all this focus group development. It's so sterile. The best games I've played obviously came from passionate people. It really shows when people believe in an idea, or when they're just doing what they're told.