Games We Love but Wish We Could Love Playing
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Variety has spoken out on some of Sony';s policies on how it handles its Playstation brand. Saying that they are too "artsy" for its own good. By releasing a lot of indie games and its artistic XMB style. Saying that the average consumer wouldn't understand all of it. Is that really a bad thing?
Variety’s Ben Fritz has tackled the on-going uphill commercial battle Sony is currently enduring with PlayStation 3, suggesting that the platform holder may be “too artsy” for its own good.
Elaborating, Fritz turned to Media Molecule’s critically acclaimed LittleBigPlanet, considered by many to be the biggest PS3 release of last year. Despite its success, the game didn't quite reach the commercial heights expected of it. So, who's buying the game, Fritz ponders? "From what I can tell, fans of quality, "artsy" games," he said.
Moving on, Fritz said of PlayStation Network that Sony remains "the only one of the big three console makers that's investing its own money on downloadable 'indie' games,” noting that other companies have more downloadable titles, but feature more ports and "junk."
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Usually if something looks really well designed and artistic it makes things look more professional and modern.
"Sony remains "the only one of the big three console makers that's investing its own money on downloadable 'indie' games,â noting that other companies have more downloadable titles, but feature more ports and "junk."
Erm, 360 community games? Like the section on XBL where you can download games made by independent devs and members of the xbox comunity?
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