Fanboys be damned you can’t tell me that you don’t think Sony has been making an inordinate amount of mistakes with the gaming community. They have been giving statement after statement that pushes their support away and failing at viral marketing. I was hoping that with their Island of Rhodes website we were going to see them dropping some big news that could help turn public opinion about their hardware. The announcement of God of War 3 or even God of War PSP is what a lot of people expected. I think that this could have been a boon to Sony, in a similar fashion to the way that the announcement of LittleBigPlanet got people excited about SCE.
Alas, Sony has let down the gamers once again. It turns out that the islandofrhodes.org website, you know the site that had an epic countdown for over two weeks, has turned out to just have videos of God of War 2 level walkthroughs with commentary. To call this dissappoiting is an understatement I feel Dan Dormer of 1up stated this best in his report on the release of this content when he said, “Countdown timers scream grand reveals, not nice additions.”
Why do you build me up just to bring me down Sony?
Chufmoney
Update: So, granted, the conclusion of the countdown to development commentary was anticlimactic to be charitable, but there’s more to the site than was initially thought; playing around with the site by the online community has uncovered some additional tidbits, including puzzles and webgames that lead to a higher res, true progressive mode (which is not, contrary to Kotaku’s post, actual HD, but that I’ll nonetheless be checking out when I get home), as well as, wait for it… another timer. With letters that appear over time. I think it may be too early to call this an addition to the blunder list (which is so, so long), but a countdown to another countdown is playing with gamers’ emotions Sony. You’d better know what you’re doing. (Aegies)