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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Dontcha just love it when top execs start commenting on someone else’s financials? Opinionated Acclaim chief David Perry ain’t above it, in fact he used his keynote address at the Games Convention Developer’s Conference to declare that Sony will never make real dough off the PlayStation 3, 10-year plan or no.
“Because of the cost of making the PlayStation 3 and because they sold it at a loss, Sony basically has pretty much no chance of making money on the PS3, because it’s lost more money than they made during the entire peak of the PlayStation 2 — it’s not going to happen again for Sony”.
He went on to say that a PlayStation 4 coming out in the next eight or so years would be a bad idea. “If they release the PlayStation 4 and have an even more expensive console and raise the cost of games by ten dollars, that would not be good”.
Thus, Perry said, this 10-year-plan for the PS3 is a long-term bid to wring out as much money to pay for the console’s development, since the pricing and sales so far haven’t done it. “This is going to force them to make the PS3 last longer and they’re kind of positioning to do that”, he said.
Perry: “Sony has No Chance of Making Money on the PS3″ [GamesIndustry.biz]
There’s a tidy piece up over on Gamasutra, detailing Howard Marks’ plans to resurrect the Acclaim brand name. While the original company went bust in 2006, Marks plans on capitalising on the brand name to leverage titles that are less about cartoony basketball players and more about…pony-based MMOs. Acclaim circa 2008 are all about free-to-play MMOs, nickel-and-diming you with microtransactions, getting into Facebook gaming and capitalising on the rise of the online gaming scene in markets like China. Might not sound like much, but the last time Marks decided to revive the flagging fortunes of a former big name in the industry was in 1991. When he and Bobby Kotick dug Activision out of the grave. That seems to be working out OK.
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Back in February, Acclaim chief creative officer David Perry announced the company’s “Project Top Secret”, a collaborative racing MMO design project where a stand-out entrant would be tapped to head up Acclaim’s next MMO project. Today, Acclaim announced it’s getting close to conclusion, with one contributor to be chosen and announced by next week.
Acclaim said 60,000 entrants signed up to submit content for Project Top Secret, and Perry will be the executive producer on the winner’s project. The original plan, said Acclaim, was to let the community collaboration design the game while a team of professionals actually made it, but Project Top Secret has since shifted into being an entirely community-produced effort.
Now in its second “building” stage, the project also has a million-dollar prize at stake along with the publishing deal and a real-deal professional development contract.
Full announcement follows the jump.
