What Sony should do with "PlayStation 4", what should not be done

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In November 2006 "PlayStation 3Five years have passed since it was released. Inside SonyThe PlayStation 4 project has advancedAlthough it is said that it will appear around 2013 to 2014, according to the Wall Street Journal, unfortunatelyThere is no plans to announce PlayStation 4 this year at E3And that.

※ Additional note:PS 4 will be announced at "PlayStation Meeting 2013" held on 20th February 2013It is a rumor that.

PS4 is anxious about what kind of hardware is made if you are a gamer, but what Sony should do with PS4, what you should not doIndustryGamersIt is summarized.

PlayStation 4: What Sony Should and Should not Do - IndustryGamers

◆ Learning from past failures
Naturally speaking, it is natural that I want you to reflect on the many failures so far and make use of it. The latest technology was packed in PlayStation 3, but consumers did not buy as much as Sony thought. It is also great that the price setting of 599 dollars for gaming machines (60, 2790 yen for 20 GB models in Japan) was very shocking.

Currently, the game industry is made up of a business model that crosses over the razor's blade, "sell the game machine body at the resolution of deficit and collect it with software sales", but the consumer assumes the price of the main unit in the first place It is like shooting your feet to make settings that deviate from the width you are doing. If you sell games machines over 399 dollars (about 30,000 yen), you will also be stumbling.

◆ Making updates more slow
In PS3, the system update was done as frequently as if it was a joke, but that joke can not be funny to laugh. There is no user who wants to look at forcibly updating for 5 minutes after turning on the game machine. It is also troublesome that there are almost no update and inconsistency as Microsoft does on Xbox ... .... The solution is to download and install update files in the background. In this way, it will not happen that updates will start before the game is played.

◆ Focus on where you crossed the game
Nintendo has little interest in putting non-game content for long, MicrosoftSet top boxIt seems to be in a hurry aiming at the world that enclosed in the Xbox. However, Sony seems to have been stupid in the point of "what you want with PS3". In the world where technologies for consumers are evolving, Microsoft has chosen a clever way to make game machines available to all family members, including those not interested in games. There is no advantageous company than Sony to choose that road.

Sony is delivering it for PSNReality showTo "The Tester"there is. Although it may not attract much attention, this is becoming a good step for the program for PlayStation fans. As for this, Microsoft also "The GuildIn the middle of developing a web-based comedy drama series.

Because PlayStation can exist as the base point of Sony's huge music service, there are also hands to distribute free live performances and privilege contents etc. by big singers.

◆ To adopt cross platform
No matter how many people say "no PC game anymore" or "finished content", PC is like a monsterRasputinIt will revive as many times as I like. Now that Microsoft's PC game is not going well, Sony (Sony Online Entertainment, SOE) can leverage properly for PC games, it can be a big asset.

"Cross platformPlaying with "is very attractive. However, in fact, development has stalled for a much longer period than anyone expected, completely losing momentumDC universeThere is only it. So SOE will be able to bring up a new form of game play.

MMORPG which can be played on cross platform has not been shown yet because it takes a long time to develop and the life of the game machine has been prolonged. However, there is a possibility that "EverQuest 3 (EQ 3)" scheduled to be delivered with PC and PS 4 may be.

◆ Improve multiplayer
Currently, the leader of online games is seen as Microsoft providing services at an annual fee of $ 60 (about 4,600 yen). The online matching system and smooth interface of games provided by Microsoft are examples of games including the on-line elements here and there. Sony can be ahead in terms of providing multiplayer games for free, but for this you need dramatic improvements in the communication part and the matching system.

◆ Too much hasty work
It is something Sony should not do from here.

Gamers are always interested in the brilliant new products of the shelves. "Releasing PS4" must be said, "Sony will start curling the PS2." If three items with similar names are lined up, it will only give confusion to consumers.

However, PS2 is still selling at a considerable momentum, and it is also a game machine which is raising net profit at the present moment. 500,000 PS2s are sold worldwide during New Year's holidays. Incidentally, the area where PS2 is currently selling well is Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, and so on.

◆ Do not get too far from the core part
PS3's "PlayStation Move" was a pretty good add-on, but Microsoft'sKinectIt is not innovative enough to change Xbox.

PlayStation players like dual shocks, even if they are exploring the possibilities of new controllers, there is a demand for "to load". It is nice to incorporate a motion controller in the system, but if it seems to be the majority of PS 4, please integrate the camera into the system and set it up easily.

◆ Be careful about "cloud"
PSPgoThere are several reasons why it ended in a big failure, but there is a point that all contents are distributed in the cloud (via the Internet). Cloud service is certainly going to be a major factor in the game industry in the future, but the arrival of the cloud era is not so early as I expected.

The major customers of Sony products are not ready for full digital distribution yet. Whether profiles and save data should be saved in the cloud or software that I purchased once should be made available for downloading from online is "Yes", but consumers still have not actually handled games as data but actually hands I would like to do.

Certainly, these advice are all those I want to hear. However, when PlayStation 4 comes out in 2013 or 2014, is there a game that I would like to still buy stationary equipment ...? PS4 may be treated as a BD player or a next generation disc player instead of a gaming machine.

2013/02/01 15:25
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