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SOE to report to Sony Computer Entertainment
SOE to report to Sony Computer Entertainment - Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that
SonyOnline Entertainment will now report to Kazuo Hirai under
a newcompany structure designed to address the growth of the
onlinegaming market [GamesIndustry.biz news]
I wonder how stoked they are on the SOE side... SOE is a strange beast to me. I don't claim, to be clear, to know anything about how SOE works on the business side, but as a player the place seemed to me to be schizophrenic... I can't see this making things better.
I mean, on the SOE side alone, it always felt like they couldn't decide if they were a publisher with a huge stable of titles that offered a massive variety (a "Cable television model") or a single game company. When EQ2 came out, support dwindled and died for other games... Then when Vanguard came out, same thing...
So, what's being controlled by the guys that did the same thing to the PS2 - one of the best selling consoles of the current generation - going to do for that? Will SOE stop supporting their old, unprofitable MMOs all together, now? Will they suffer along as they have in the past - with too little support to thrive and too much support to die? Or, will this really be a good thing where we see a new revitalization of the stable of products SOE offers?
I really don't know, but my gut tells me this isn't going to be a good thing for what we currently think of as SOE. As a gamer, I'm already finding myself justifying my station pass subscription with rationale and flat out delusion, somehow I suspect that in the coming year, I won't even have enough fuel to do that.
Besides, I don't own a PS3 - and I've yet to see a reason why I'd want one. I'm pretty sure I'm not SCE's intended market. Chances are, they'll drive me out of their piece of the market entirely, sooner or later.
Damn, but I hope I'm wrong.
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Funny you should mention the PS3; the rumor I had heard a while ago was that SOE was going to be tabbed with dealing with the PS3 Home (in part or in whole)... mostly to Sony asking the question 'Don't we have some guys who know online?' and gazing in SOE's direction.
Sony is a very large company, and oddly SOE had spent its time reporting to the movie group, not the Playstation group. There was even some contention at SOE producing PSP titles (as they didn't report to SCEA-- so I'm lead to understand). Now, this just organizes the whole Sony game groups a lot more solidly.
It wouldn't shock me to see the emphasis on PC MMOs dwindle a bit from SOE though, as I'm betting this realignment has to do with them handling online work for SCEA.
SOE blows in my opinion, if
SOE blows in my opinion, if it means they will get new management to slap them around abit, all the better.
i don't like SoE, sony run mmorpgs tend to have updates that drasticly alter the game and often they do not consult the community of said games before they twist everything around.