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  • Can consoles support large F2P games? They already do

    Sony’s recent corporate presentation was heavily focused on F2P and live-service games. Piers Harding-Rolls has an excellent analysis thread on Twitter, and these 2 charts leaped out at me. That chart shows that more a quarter of...

    • Posted 2 years ago
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  • Is F2P the natural fit for Virtual Reality?

    This is a post by GAMESbrief’s Rob Fahey, co-author (with Nicholas Lovell) of The F2P Toolbox and Design Rules For Free-To-Play Games. You can also read more of his work every week on GamesIndustry.biz. 2016 is going...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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  • Why Sony’s technological focus blinded it to a shift in what its customers want.

    I’m reading Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers by Niraj Dawar about how competitive advantage is moving from upstream (control of manufacturing, R&D, products) to downstream (customer relationships, after sales care, direct contact with your...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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  • [Gamesbriefers] Has the PS4 transformed PS Vita?

    do you think that the PS Vita's value proposition has changed? And if so, is it all down to remote play with the PS4, or did something else make you change your mind?

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • The real reason Microsoft screwed up its used games strategy so badly

    Microsoft has messed up its DRM strategy. It did so because it thought that getting big publishers on board was more important than impressing customers, and it was prepared to bet that high-quality content would drive purchases,...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • What makes a platform? Games or users? Console makers place their bets.

    I’m still catching up on all the news and analysis from the E3 reveals of the new consoles yesterday, but this is my current thinking. Both console manufacturers need to get a large installed base. Although both...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • Is Nintendo a natural free-to-play game company?

    I was reading the comments on Rob Fahey’s column on the challenges facing Sony with the Vita. This comment, by Felix Leyendecker, a senior 3D artist at Crytek, leapt out at me. “Nintendos IPs are successful because...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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