IGN: ""How Sony Won Gamescom Before It Even Started"

The PlayStation Vita seemed only to have a handful of promising titles for the remainder of 2012 – LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, a Call of Duty game we knew next to nothing about, a Persona 4 remake, and a poorly timed Assassin’s Creed tie-in
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LOL. Run MS and Ninty, run. I especially like that he is talking about 2012 is something like that lies miles ahead in the future. Its already august.
 
TurkishEmperor said:
I dont know what you're trying to say, but I love how Sony announced a couple new games, I'm so excited. I'm saddened by the absence of the other console manufacturers, its like they dont care for me.
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Again, does Nintendo not care about Japan because they don't show up to TGS?

tranciful said:
Is this supposed to be a legitimate argument against Sony? I don't even get what you're trying to say.
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Read the post I quoted that originally quoted me.

gofreak said:
I saw three new good to great looking original ip ps3 games outside of the wonder book stuff. Another two or three from MS would have been cool, I guess?
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What 3 new IP PS3 retail games did they show?

AgentP said:
Gamescon is Europe, where MS is #2.
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And the Nintendo with the Wii is still #1.
 
Hyuga said:
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the only thing funny about this thread is that you're not a jr. member yet
 
OldJadedGamer said:
What 3 new IP PS3 retail games did they show?
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Puppeteer and Until Dawn are blu-ray games, I believe. But I'd have taken three new xbla games as interesting-looking as Rain this week, if MS were announcing them.

There's no question that Sony is developing a reputation for strong creative efforts in a way MS isn't quite matching. Only argument here is whether you want to take a sales-age tack about the importance of that vs a pure 'would I like to see MS dev come up as strongly?' point of view. My thinking hinges around the latter. There's no reason Xbox couldn't be an even better platform with more effort from MS.
 
gofreak said:
Puppeteer and Until Dawn are blu-ray games, I believe. But I'd have taken three new xbla games as interesting-looking as Rain this week, if MS were announcing them.

There's no question that Sony is developing a reputation for strong creative efforts in a way MS isn't quite matching. Only argument here is whether you want to take a sales-age tack about the importance of that vs a pure 'would I like to see MS dev come up as strongly?' point of view. My thinking hinges around the latter. There's no reason Xbox couldn't be an even better platform with more effort from MS.
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Isn't Until Dawn a Move only game? So one retail, one PSN, and one Motion only game. You consider that a "consistent flow"? I'm not saying these won't be good games since I'll play 2/3 but I get the impression you feel it was some big PS3 blowout and I don't think it was for MS to care.

This show was for the Vita and Wonderbook. Too things that don't affect MS.
 
I thought they had a good show, I wouldn't say they "won" but as a ps3 owner I'm glad that some new, promising games were announced. The article is over the top, but most of you are exaggerating as usual.
 
It's just an editorial and I realize it's not a majority opinion at IGN but still, Gamescom wasn't a competition. With ONLY Sony showing as one of the hardware manufacturers I don't see how anybody could "win".

I did enjoy their conference though, some really cool and interesting stuff but I'm still not convinced to spend $300+ to jump in to the Vita pool yet.
 
What exactly did Sony "win," pray tell?

They announced new games, that's what they're supposed to do, right?

When I go to work and do my job, I don't get a medal.
 
I started to quote the parts that read like a 17 year old making a bad attempt at viral marketing and then it was just the whole article.
 
Mama Robotnik said:
This is the second most disgustingly sycophantic gaming article I've ever read*. The highlights/lowlights for me, in bold:



There isn't a sign of independent thought in here, its pure gush and adoration. Not a single question, considered observation or any sign of actual journalism can be detected within.

Sony have certainly delivered a better show that their E3 shambles (in fairness, everyone was a shambles this E3), but this article isn't positive feedback or commentary, its gushing adoration by a love-struck Sony fanboy.

*Nothing will ever take your crown, MacWorld.
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I hope you're preparing your second Sony thread.
 
OldJadedGamer said:
Isn't Until Dawn a Move only game? So one retail, one PSN, and one Motion only game. You consider that a "consistent flow"?
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No, not on their own but as part of the 'wider point' I referred to, the wider context than just gamescom. I'm not sure many were expecting more new PS3 stuff to be announced this year, yet here it was, adding to a line of announcements this year that I think has been pretty unexpectedly strong.

I'll ask again - don't you think it would be great if MS had a similar creative interest in their own platform in addition to everything else there? I think it would, and that's all I'm saying.
 
Like the article said, Sony clearly won Gamescon before it even started seeing as Microsoft and Nintendo couldnt care less about it.
I mean, It's not that hard to be the best when you're the only one competing, right?
 
Jive Turkey said:
You know speaking of tags I just noticed yours. Thanks for that thread!
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thanks Jive! we've got some good people in there keeping it going, too.

EmCeeGramr said:
I started to quote the parts that read like a 17 year old making a bad attempt at viral marketing and then it was just the whole article.
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yeah, mama had a hard time not bolding the whole thing, i imagine

Kyon said:
No lies detected.
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kyons you and your favs are better than this
 
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