Sony Game - Making Competion

[Kay]

Sony are launching a competition to find cracking game ideas to be turned into real titles, with one lucky winner getting access to a full development team, tasked with making their vision reality. In the past, PS2 games Devil Dice, Bombtastic and Doko Demo Issho have been created via this method of competition, but Sony Japan's new Yarouze 2006 contest will offer gamers the chance to propose concepts for both the PSP and PS3, in addition to the PS2. How very exciting.

Both amateur and professional game designers can submit ideas, with the winner bagging a studio, development team, a project budget, living expenses, and of course the honour of seeing their game released. The competition opens on November 15th, when an official website will go live through which to submit entries. The competition website is titled 'Let's Make a Game', and entries must be submitted before February 2006.

A very interesting opportunity all in all, so get those thinking caps on and start coming up with those killer app suggestions. We'll keep you posted.

Information From: http://www.ferrago.com/story/6790

[mattspec]

thats soo cool, thats a great marketing scheme for sony...i like it

[MicrotechXP]

Yup. That is cool. I want to win...lol. GO SONY!!!

[Spartan Erik]

haha ugh quite recently i realize how much i hate sony..

a. their cameras life span is of less than 3 years, dont expect any more than that
b. they released a firmware update for the psp which wiped out any third party apps
c. their DRM cds resulted in cloaked rootkits, allowing for hackers to take over computers, and for cheaters to hack games like WoW
d. most of their new computers do not come with a backup function
e. proprietary format for EVERYTHING! memory sticks for cameras, sony nimh batteries, atrac3 for mp3 players, minidv, etc etc it drives me nuts
f. they invested so much money on that new cell processor for the ps3, but in doing so, it makes it MUCH harder for game makers to make any games for the ps3, so alot of them are introducing their games for the xbox 360 instead since it is much easier to script an engine to.

sony is going down the drain..

[AllStarGamer101]

That is a great idea for sony. Sony is not all bad. It has its strong points and its weak points.

[oscar.j4l]

Well.... sony is ok, but i think that it need to work on some of it stuff.