{"id":745974,"date":"2013-04-10T23:59:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=428427"},"modified":"2013-04-10T23:59:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:59:40","slug":"playstation-4-xbox-720-not-seen-curing-sick-market-for-old-school-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745974","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 4, Xbox 720 not seen curing \u2018sick market for old-school gaming\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/playstation-4-xbox-720-criticism-428427\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"609\" height=\"341\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/playstation-4-dualshock-4.jpg?w=609&#038;h=341&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=609%2C341\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"PlayStation 4, Xbox 720\" title=\"PlayStation 4 Controller\" \/><\/a><\/center>It's not only financial analysts who are <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/21\/sony-playstation-4-analysis-downward-spiral-339662\/\">bearish on the prospects of new gaming consoles<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sony\">Sony<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=sne\">SNE<\/a>) \u2014 gaming industry pioneers aren't too optimistic either. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/news\/bioware-cofounder-says-ps4-and-720-stuck-in-a-sick-market-for-old-school-gaming-6406692\">an interview with <em>Gamespot<\/em><\/a>, Bioware cofounder\u00a0Dr. Greg Zeschuk said that neither the next Xbox nor the PlayStation 4 are likely to fix the \"sick market for old-school gaming\" that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/11\/nintendo-wii-u-sales-analysis-289621\/\">the industry has found itself trapped in<\/a>\u00a0recently.\u00a0Zeschuk, who cofounded the company responsible for the popular Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, went onto say \"that unless Microsoft or Sony pull something magically out of a hat, it's pretty much the same old, same old repackaged,\" and that the new consoles will have a minimal impact on the retail market for high-end games.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/V_q5vJXaeMc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not only financial analysts who are bearish on the prospects of new gaming consoles from Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) \u2014 gaming industry pioneers aren&#8217;t too optimistic either. In an interview with Gamespot, Bioware cofounder\u00a0Dr. Greg Zeschuk said that neither the next Xbox nor the PlayStation 4 are likely to fix the &#8220;sick market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-383Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}