Playstation
Canada's president, Butch Freedhoff, said that
the Playstation console beat sales records for
1998 again. They surpass their own record for the
3rd time in 3 years, over 4 millions of consoles
where sold this year. From the beginning, in
America, over 16 million consoles where sold.
Then, over 600 titles will be available before
the end of 1999. For their success, the company
base on innovation, the quality and the music of
a product. As the president said, if the
playstation is still a lot inquiry, it's because
the console offers all the quality asked by a
player.
For this
event, Ian Wilkinson, Radical Entertainement's
president (located in Vancouver) explained the
reasons for which a company stay on the market.
Radical always look for other way to make games
interesting. At the beginning, the company was
compose by two members and now, over 40 people
work for Radical. We have to say that over the
years, Radical offered excellent titles to the
players.
Rémi
Racine, general director of Behaviour Interactive
participate also. Behaviour is a company based in
Quebec. The company now have over 40 employees
and they specialize in games and multimedia. For
those who never heard of them, well they recently
made the game Jersey Devil for the Playstation.
The company actually works closely with Warner
Brothers about a Bugs Bunny game. Their will also
be a sequel to Jersey Devil soon. Like Radical,
Behaviour makes musically and graphically good
quality games. For Jersey Devil they hired an
orchestra.
Nelson,
an expert player was present. Like he said, the
quality of a game is quickly seen. He used as
example games like Final Fantasy, resident Evil
and Tomb Raider. When you use cinematics you get
the player's attention, he always want to know
what happened next.
Finally,
they were all confident about the Playstation's
quality and future. Of course, they didn't want
to talk about Playstation 2. Still, we know that
the present console can face the market against
the Nintendo 64 and the Dreamcast for another
year. Obviously, in about 2 years from now, the
next generation of the Playstation will take
over, Stay in touch!
Unfortunaltely,
I didn't get a chance to ask my question, time
was limited and only 5 or 6 questions have been
answered. Somewhere, a question retain my
attention, a member press asked if the price of
the Playstation console will drop to 99$ like in
the united States. In my opinion, this question
made me laugh. If you remember at the beginning,
a first generation of Nintendo was sold over 400$
and about 329$ was needed for a Colecovision. I
personnaly think that the price of the consoles
is actually affordable and for about 200$, you
get a great game console. So, in conclusion the
fact is that Canada is a great target for the
inquiry and devolpment of games.
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