R.I.P. Sony

Martin · 03-29-2005, 02:14 AM

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content...at=3&id=332037

Rest in peace, greatest system next to the SNES.

I'll miss you, PS2.

[ March 29, 2005, 02:02 AM: Message edited by: Shaken, Not Stirred ]

Beam Yosho the Drunkard · 03-29-2005, 02:40 AM

Well, wrong forum....but that's rediculous.(more than likely, spelt wrong. I know. I can't spell now.) 90.7 million? Damn.

Glyph Phoenix · 03-29-2005, 02:49 AM

Damn it, Beam. It would have taken you a shorter amount of time to check the word's correct spelling than to type all that.

And as for the PS2 thing, perhaps this will accelerate the destruction of videogame kind. Don't think it's happening? Just look around you. When was the last truly good Mario platformer? SM64? And what's up with the crazy Capcom and Square crap? A million sequals to FF7? The most twisted plot in all of continuity? It's all over, people. It's only a matter of time...

Martin · 03-29-2005, 02:54 AM

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Originally posted by Glyph Phoenix:
Damn it, Beam. It would have taken you a shorter amount of time to check the word's correct spelling than to type all that.

And as for the PS2 thing, perhaps this will accelerate the destruction of videogame kind. Don't think it's happening? Just look around you. When was the last truly good Mario platformer? SM64? And what's up with the crazy Capcom and Square crap? A million sequals to FF7? The most twisted plot in all of continuity? It's all over, people. It's only a matter of time...

The Wario Land games come to mind for that second question...

As for Capcom and Square, Square is capitalizing on what people want to see more of while Capcom is establishing itself as a major player in the video game industry. If anything this is Nintendo's chance to hit Microsoft hard and fast.

Too bad I was rootin' for the PS2... and the DS, oddly enough.

X-3 · 03-29-2005, 09:51 AM

This is so old news, and they have so much $$$ it doesnt affect them, and they have the PSP...

VGMaster64 · 03-29-2005, 11:03 AM

Sony isn't what you'd call a multi-billion dollar corporation. And just because they have the PSP doesn't mean that they still don't have to pay for it. There's advertising, shipping, and then they have to make the games for it.

X-3 · 03-29-2005, 11:49 AM

They still get alot of $$$....

Tazy_10 · 03-29-2005, 02:40 PM

Oh, man... this reminds me of the curse of the Game boy... Every company that goes after Nintendo in the handheld Market, GOES OUT OF BUSINESS!

Atari- No longer a hardware company
Sega- No longer a hardware company
SNK- went out of business
Nokia- It's only a matter of time...
Wonderswan- Nope....
And now, Sony drowning under it's curse!
Xbox fans better tell Microsoft to NEVER make a handheld console!

**Sean P Kelly** · 03-29-2005, 04:00 PM

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Originally posted by VGMaster64:
Sony isn't what you'd call a multi-billion dollar corporation. And just because they have the PSP doesn't mean that they still don't have to pay for it. There's advertising, shipping, and then they have to make the games for it.

Sony? Make Games?

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(Sorry about that, but you should know how much Sony realies on 3rd Party games)

X-3 · 03-29-2005, 04:32 PM

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Originally posted by Gimpy:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by VGMaster64:
Sony isn't what you'd call a multi-billion dollar corporation. And just because they have the PSP doesn't mean that they still don't have to pay for it. There's advertising, shipping, and then they have to make the games for it.

Sony? Make Games?

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(Sorry about that, but you should know how much Sony realies on 3rd Party games) [/quote]Yeah, has Sony even made a First-party game? I know Microsoft and Nintendo(Duh) has, but Sony?

bobtherandomguy · 03-29-2005, 04:50 PM

nope not that I can think of and if they ever did it would blow

Codiekitty · 03-29-2005, 06:18 PM

*scratches forehead* Didn't this happen a long time ago? But all the comments are from, like, today...

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

RMC · 03-29-2005, 06:22 PM

This make brain hurt.

**L007 is Undecided** · 03-29-2005, 07:26 PM

Playstation 2 is NOT coming to an end. It's just they have to discontinue producing Duelshock controllers as it violates the patents of Immersion Corp.

Course, Sony is the only company that IC can go after, as:

1) From what I heard on the Flying Omelette boards, Microsoft owns about 10%, so their controllers are safe.

2) Nintendo already had the rumble feature with the Rumble Pak. I guess since they had the patents already, they could expand the Rumble Pak directly into the controller, so it may be able to avoid infringments of the patent.

Wonder if they'll go after the 3rd party makers of Sony controllers as well?

Codiekitty · 03-30-2005, 07:23 PM

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Originally posted by Master Tazy:
Atari- No longer a hardware company

The Lynx got no support. Neither from developers, nor consumers. I don't think Atari themselves even supported the thing.

Atari was not a very smart company. At one time, there were more copies of Pac-man than there were Atari 2600s. When asked about it, the response was something like "Well, we thought people would want a second copy in their ski lodge".

I actually don't think the original Atari is even around anymore. From what I heard, they pretty much died and somebody else bought all their stuff.

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Sega- No longer a hardware company

Sega's hardware bellyflop was because of business mistakes they made, not the Game Gear (although that's not to say the Game Gear was an act of genius, it was just a little icing on Sega's cake of problems).

They released a bunch of peripherals for the Genesis that left a sour taste in consumer and retailer mouths alike. And in an attempt to beat out the Playstation, they neglected to accompany the Saturn's release with games and a reasonable price tag.

While the Saturn eventually got some quality material, nobody wanted to stick around for it and the Saturn's curse got passed on to the Dreamcast.

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SNK- went out of business

And then they came back. They've also done it more than once.

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Nokia- It's only a matter of time...

N-gage was just poorly thought out. A launch price even more ridiculous than the DS and PSP, a pathetic library after months of hype ("We're gonna have original stuff! Not rehashes and stuff you can get on other systems." And guess what the majority of their miniscule library is), and a poor design (you have to remove the battery to insert a game) resulted in the thing never proving itself as more than a cell phone that played games. They made an SP of sorts, but the only thing that could be changed about that is how you put the game in. They're only available at select retailers, and Wal-Mart, the 800-pound gorilla of the retail business, wasn't included.

Nokia themselves make cell phones, something everybody gobbles up like popcorn, and they probably won't be going anywhere soon.

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Wonderswan- Nope....

Could you please be consistant here? Wonderswan is the system. Bandai is the producer. Bandai also makes general toys, so probably isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

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And now, Sony drowning under it's curse!
Xbox fans better tell Microsoft to NEVER make a handheld console!

...

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

Gaara · 03-30-2005, 07:26 PM

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Originally posted by X-3 X:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Gimpy:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by VGMaster64:
Sony isn't what you'd call a multi-billion dollar corporation. And just because they have the PSP doesn't mean that they still don't have to pay for it. There's advertising, shipping, and then they have to make the games for it.

Sony? Make Games?

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(Sorry about that, but you should know how much Sony realies on 3rd Party games) [/quote]Yeah, has Sony even made a First-party game? I know Microsoft and Nintendo(Duh) has, but Sony? [/quote]There's Ape Escape. I like Ape Escape. It's MONKEYS WITH COOL HELMETS! And yes, I like Ape Escape a lot. I bought a PSP mainly for it. Please don't make fun of me.

X-3 · 03-30-2005, 08:56 PM

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Originally posted by Astroman:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by X-3 X:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Gimpy:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by VGMaster64:
Sony isn't what you'd call a multi-billion dollar corporation. And just because they have the PSP doesn't mean that they still don't have to pay for it. There's advertising, shipping, and then they have to make the games for it.

Sony? Make Games?

[img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img]

(Sorry about that, but you should know how much Sony realies on 3rd Party games) [/quote]Yeah, has Sony even made a First-party game? I know Microsoft and Nintendo(Duh) has, but Sony? [/quote]There's Ape Escape. I like Ape Escape. It's MONKEYS WITH COOL HELMETS! And yes, I like Ape Escape a lot. I bought a PSP mainly for it. Please don't make fun of me. [/quote]Su- Err, I mean, what else did they make?

Codiekitty · 03-30-2005, 11:53 PM

As far as I can tell, they made Champions of Norrath for the PS2. What the game is like, I don't know. I don't have access to my PS2 right now.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

RMC · 03-31-2005, 05:18 PM

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quote:
Atari was not a very smart company. At one time, there were more copies of Pac-man than there were Atari 2600s. When asked about it, the response was something like "Well, we thought people would want a second copy in their ski lodge".

I actually don't think the original Atari is even around anymore. From what I heard, they pretty much died and somebody else bought all their stuff.

Time for some Video Game Facts

Did you know that:

Japanese toy company Nintendo Single handly revised the Video Game corporation from completely vanishing.

[ March 31, 2005, 04:23 PM: Message edited by: MC Laki or Joe Hatter ]

Codiekitty · 03-31-2005, 05:46 PM

Nintendo did not start as a toy company. They made playing cards. Okay, I guess you could somehow argue that those are toys. But the point is they didn't make action figures and toy cars and so on. They made playing cards.

Also, it wasn't so much video games that crashed, just home video gaming. Arcades were doing fine after the video game crash.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

[ March 31, 2005, 04:48 PM: Message edited by: CodieKitty ]

03-29-2005, 02:14 AM	#1
Martin Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Somewhere? Posts: 144 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 3,534.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 4,034.00 Donate	http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content...at=3&id=332037 Rest in peace, greatest system next to the SNES. I'll miss you, PS2. [ March 29, 2005, 02:02 AM: Message edited by: Shaken, Not Stirred ]

03-29-2005, 02:40 AM	#2
Beam Yosho the Drunkard Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The oversized rock of Hawaii. Gender: Posts: 5,665 Thanks: 5 Thanked 17 Times in 13 Posts Points: 22,799.39 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 23,299.39 Donate	Well, wrong forum....but that's rediculous.(more than likely, spelt wrong. I know. I can't spell now.) 90.7 million? Damn.

03-29-2005, 02:49 AM	#3
Glyph Phoenix Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Gender: Posts: 1,774 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 6,676.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 7,176.00 Donate	Damn it, Beam. It would have taken you a shorter amount of time to check the word's correct spelling than to type all that. And as for the PS2 thing, perhaps this will accelerate the destruction of videogame kind. Don't think it's happening? Just look around you. When was the last truly good Mario platformer? SM64? And what's up with the crazy Capcom and Square crap? A million sequals to FF7? The most twisted plot in all of continuity? It's all over, people. It's only a matter of time...

03-29-2005, 09:51 AM	#5
X-3 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Brigade HQ Gender: Posts: 9,234 Thanks: 280 Thanked 308 Times in 225 Posts Blog Entries: 3 Points: 11,840.13 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 11,840.13 Donate	This is so old news, and they have so much $$$ it doesnt affect them, and they have the PSP...

03-29-2005, 11:03 AM	#6
VGMaster64 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 28 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 1,080.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 1,580.00 Donate	Sony isn't what you'd call a multi-billion dollar corporation. And just because they have the PSP doesn't mean that they still don't have to pay for it. There's advertising, shipping, and then they have to make the games for it.

03-29-2005, 11:49 AM	#7
X-3 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Brigade HQ Gender: Posts: 9,234 Thanks: 280 Thanked 308 Times in 225 Posts Blog Entries: 3 Points: 11,840.13 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 11,840.13 Donate	They still get alot of $$$....

03-29-2005, 02:40 PM	#8
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03-29-2005, 04:50 PM	#11
bobtherandomguy Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Gender: Posts: 160 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 874.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 1,374.00 Donate	nope not that I can think of and if they ever did it would blow

03-29-2005, 06:18 PM	#12
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03-29-2005, 06:22 PM	#13
RMC Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Phoenix, NY Posts: 1,129 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Points: 9,927.05 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 10,427.05 Donate	This make brain hurt.

03-29-2005, 07:26 PM	#14
L007 is Undecided Axe Shreddin' Mod Join Date: May 2001 Location: Farmerland. Gender: Posts: 7,383 Thanks: 95 Thanked 310 Times in 180 Posts Points: 3,654.58 Bank: 18,698.70 Total Points: 22,353.28 Donate	Playstation 2 is NOT coming to an end. It's just they have to discontinue producing Duelshock controllers as it violates the patents of Immersion Corp. Course, Sony is the only company that IC can go after, as: 1) From what I heard on the Flying Omelette boards, Microsoft owns about 10%, so their controllers are safe. 2) Nintendo already had the rumble feature with the Rumble Pak. I guess since they had the patents already, they could expand the Rumble Pak directly into the controller, so it may be able to avoid infringments of the patent. Wonder if they'll go after the 3rd party makers of Sony controllers as well?

03-30-2005, 11:53 PM	#18
Codiekitty Just Another Face in Red Jumpsuit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Lemmingland Gender: Posts: 19,143 Thanks: 121 Thanked 174 Times in 120 Posts Points: 44,935.72 Bank: 3,021,450.74 Total Points: 3,066,386.46 Donate	As far as I can tell, they made Champions of Norrath for the PS2. What the game is like, I don't know. I don't have access to my PS2 right now. Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

03-31-2005, 05:46 PM	#20
Codiekitty Just Another Face in Red Jumpsuit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Lemmingland Gender: Posts: 19,143 Thanks: 121 Thanked 174 Times in 120 Posts Points: 44,935.72 Bank: 3,021,450.74 Total Points: 3,066,386.46 Donate	Nintendo did not start as a toy company. They made playing cards. Okay, I guess you could somehow argue that those are toys. But the point is they didn't make action figures and toy cars and so on. They made playing cards. Also, it wasn't so much video games that crashed, just home video gaming. Arcades were doing fine after the video game crash. Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there! [ March 31, 2005, 04:48 PM: Message edited by: CodieKitty ]