Lair falls flat
I was just perusing Gamerankings.com and noticed that Lair was averaging a 60% rating after nearly thirty reviews. Guess that pretty much kills any potential it might’ve had as a PS3 system-seller, and as looks to me like a major setback to Sony’s bottom line this year. Lair is one of those games that really needs to do well to bring the spotlight back to Sony for year-end console sales, but it seems to me that the PS3’s just gonna hafta wait until 2008 for a chance to take center stage once again. Lair sits in the unfortunate shadow of both Bioshock and Metroid Prime 3, and I was kinda thinking that it and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune were going to be the double-header that got Sony back in the running for 2007. I guess Lair’s spot will have to be picked up by Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, but Ratchet and Clank is hardly a system-seller, and Uncharted, being a new IP, may run aground if Sony doesn’t hype it to hell and back.
Rough times at the Sony camp through the end of fiscal 2007, it appears.