Video Games

The brand new Sony president Kaz Hirai has made ​​some interesting statements from The Wall Street Journal . In the article admits that Sony has big problems and should focus on correcting that situation before problems become serious indeed.

Hirai has said his main goal is to return Sony the way of benefits, priority and the biggest challenge of his career:

"I thought to carry the PlayStation business around the world would be the great challenge of my career, but I think not"

Sony CEO also admitted that since he has sat in his office only have rained problems, a legacy which will face before the situation is too complicated:

"It's one problem after another. I feel like 'Damn, now what? "

How will you fix this? Well it seems the first thing you do is make clear to his team who can not live on past glory, they must offer consumers a better experience than the current one:

"We must get to work and be realistic. I do not think everyone thinks the same, but I think the crowd is beginning to emerge the idea that if we do nothing, we could be facing serious problems. "

Kaz Hirai is appreciated is shown as sincere, even more so recently since Sony have said that PS Vita is doing well in Japan, something that no one ends up believing. In the last fiscal quarter losses of the company amounted to 1,500 million euros and expect to end the year with a deficit of 3,500 million.

Since then a lot of money that are lost, hopefully the lift and the good company of Kaz Hirai gets overcome these problems and return the company to its past performance.

In an interview given to the site GamerZinest , associate producer of Mass Effect 3 Gamble Mike stated that we keep our files in ME3 save once you finish since Bioware has plans for future use. "Not a bad idea (save saves in ME3), obviously I can not say anything, but not be a bad idea ...". Will they be required for a Mass Effect 4?

Recall that ME2 and ME3 both use saves for the earlier games and use them to change the story depending on the choices we have made ​​in our progress. But Bioware has confirmed that ME3 is the last game in the trilogy of Shepard, but that does not rule out more games in the Mass Effect universe in the future, so that the choices made ​​in 3 can affect a new game. In this regard Gamble said "No go any particular way, you can think of many, many different areas in the IP, in history, where great battles win great battles that have, and much development to do on where these races are, how they got here. We have a lot of where to get. "

About the bridal Shepard, Gamble says he has to let the players satisfied: "We want the results are satisfactory for the player. This does not necessarily imply that all (the final) will be happy or positive, but they must be satisfied. Players have to understand that elections have been doing in this game and the previous have had an impact, and that they are the architect of what is happening. You'll get answers to everything. That was one of the keys. Regardless of how we have done all we have to say yes, we will provide some answers to these people. "

If you want to know how the story ends Shepard Ecéticos be patient, the first days of March we will begin to have all the answers on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

We live a bizarre time, a time of change you never have asked you what's on record of these years in two or three centuries? What will be what they associate humans from the future to think about the end of the twentieth and early twenty-first. Some say equality between men and women, some say terrorism, some say the Internet ... I would argue that the most important thing is to digitize: are we not use physical things, things that are in the world of objects, less tangible things , virtual. The physical book e-book, from vinyl to mp3, pilla-pilla to Super Mario. Not change our concerns (we still want to read, still love music, we still want to play ...), but changes the way we carry out and of course, change the access we have to those resources.

Clearly, if you wanted to play before the hiding did not need anything, but if you wanted to read a book was fatal, well, that book. This association seems so logical to us today is obsolete, since today virtually everything can be duplicated, unadulterated and without allowing it to exist at any time in the world of reality. You work for years in a game, simply by pressing keys, the end of that product, physically absent, put it on sale online and have it duplicated thousands of times while you get vitual money in a virtual account and I will spend virtually. Congratulations, you're rich and you have not created or received anything in the world of objects.

If we consider this cycle, what physically sell anything that is likely to be digitized? Could it be that is a vestige of the past, a time that was required to pass a physical object from one hand to another? We are living a time of change lately, and cultural tsunami uneducated and interested persons believe they can stop it with a dam. In this age of soups, records and Sindes legislators seem unaware that this change started long ago. Since the first text appeared on a screen, the paper has been sentenced to death. It takes more or less disappear, but it will. And since the Internet created the need to sell digital storage devices is just as obsolete (or DVDs, Blu-rays, the future is nothing, the cloud).

All this comes to mind because of several news related to the entertainment industry. Several unpleasant news but not surprising. On the one hand we have the plight of GAME . The network responsible for the video game retailers GAME and Gamestop is not going through its best. Gamestop has closed all their branches in Portugal and Northern Ireland and it was rumored that the Spanish stores suffer the same fate (rumor was denied later) . However, shortly after news broke that GAME UK is on the verge of bankruptcy and it is very unlikely to be able to cover expenses between now and the very near future.

As I have stated above, this is normal. These stores are doomed to disappear and, little by little, all will give way to an increasingly digital commerce. If you do not believe me, ask yourself this: Montaríais now a video game store?, Does a bookstore?, Does a music store?, Did a video store? You know you are finished, but I accept it hurts. At least to me it hurts, because I love this kind of shops where you can see at a glance so many cultural offerings.

We have this on one hand but on the other we find a structure rooted in the depths of society that claims to defend tooth and nail this business model. Every time a change occurs, many people get scared and fear, combined with lack of culture, makes real atrocities committed. At least this time we we're going to knife each other. The most they do is that a side force governments to enact laws that favor them and pull the other for a few hours a website. What I mean is that there have always been opponents of progress, there are always wealthy people in this struggling that things remain as they are. Is normal.

So, Netflix is going to Spain with their tails between their legs. This fantastic initiative VOD (sort of Yonkis Series of payment you can use both the PC and the Xbox 360 or 3DS or wherever you want) is that Spanish society is not prepared gives a change. The copyright tax to be paid will surely be exorbitant, preventing an expensive business model based on the cloud.

As long as they give examples like this, or as a fool off that Sony intends to do with games downloadable PS Vita, the company is flying blind as it moves forward. That future that we will reach many people but you should delay as possible.