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@LogicStrikesAgain “ I feel like saying Tencent would be a better fit is a bit weird, since Kadokawa is explicitly saying they dont want their company to go to foreign companies. A Japanese company would naturally understand and respect the heritage of the content more than a foreign company.”

Where did they said that? Could you provide a link? I’m going of information that this article provide. So, if they have said that… then I will retract my statement.

“Oh and why is a long history of close partnership not a big factor? I would think having a great partnership already would be very beneficial in a merger or acquisition scenario.“

Cause long partnership doesn’t always benefit mergers… That something that Microsoft and Bethesda was throwing around during their acquisition.

@LogicStrikesAgain I would think Tencent would be a better fit tbh. No matter how much people want to swing Sony and Fromsoftware history together as a sword. This purchases isn’t just about video games.

Kadokawa wants to keep the whole company intact, and stay a separate subsidiary under the wider Sony company. If that what company, wouldn’t the better company be the one who supports that?

Tencent also hasn’t exactly shown why they’re a bad company other than the usual “Chinese company bad”. They’ve been pretty much hands off in terms of game development, and we don’t really have to fear about games going exclusive unlike if Sony bought Fromsoftware.

@Dragon83 Isnt the point of developing studio to help studios create successful games, and point them in the right direction? The fact you’re saying “ hasn't made anything decent in years apart from a couple VR games” (which is incredibly stupidly false by the way) an example of Sony failure at developing and helping a studio?

Outside of a handful of Sony’s studios… Most of them have very much stagnated.

@LogicStrikesAgain “ Sony already owns around 2% of Kadokawa if i’m not mistaken. And 15% of FromSoftware.”

They own 14 which is less than what Tencent owns… and I’m sure Tencent owns more of Kadokawa as well.

@Dragon83 Can’t believe we’re still say this nonsense after Japan Studio closure. Where was that “Helping studios develop”.

@kevinm360 “ Sledgehammer only had less than two years to put out Modern Warfare 3 after Vanguard”

It not even just about MW3… Sledgehammer has literally been attached to some of the worse CoDs. They did the multiplayer for the original MW3, CoD: AW, CoD:WWII, Vanguard, and MW3. That not even count all the disagreements that Sledgehammer has with every studio they work with.

It time to pull them from the frontlines.

“ Raven developed the campaign for Black Ops 6, and it’s the best campaign in years.”

They also did the campaign for Cold War. Which is why I think it time to let them develop their own title for CoD instead of just working on Black Ops.

Why are we still letting Sledgehammers games lead their own game? Maybe it time to let another studio step a develop their title. How about Raven software?

@BearsEatBeets I think the announcement from earlier this year was that they was planning to enter full production the 2nd half of 2024… They been waiting on hiring the last couple of months in order to hit their targeted team size for production.

@rjejr “ I’m guessing a lot of the older handheld games this is sort of based on were $30 or $40. So while it’s a big deal, I’d really like to see actual sales numbers and not worry about what DS games would cost in 2024 factoring in inflation.”

This game was base on Budokai Tenkaichi which was console games, not handheld games… So most likely $60. There was only ever one portable game, and that was on PSP not DS.

@nomither6 I would say that FigtherZ had a bigger splash cause of the competitive scene and Android 21. But Sparking Zero definitely saw bigger draw due to it being more casual.

@Keyblade-Dan “ Playstation gets freaking From Soft and 2 cool smaller developers”

There actually no guarantee that PlayStation get anything from this… Another similar subsidiary under Sony, Aniplex, has developed and published games… and a of lot that has barely benefited PlayStation in an anyway. It really depends on if they plan to split up the company, or just keep the company the same.

This purchase will probably not benefit PlayStation in the slightest.

Sony is doing the purchase, not PlayStation. So this is purely for anime and manga. Love of everyone complains about Microsoft but Sony in the background buying up the anime/manage industry.

But if this purchase is real… Kadokawa will probably continue to be it own thing, and those two developers continue to sit under that company with no new benefits to PlayStation gamers. Just like how Aniplex has been no benefit to PlayStation even to they develop and publish games. Aren’t they already publishing spike chunsoft new game?

@PuppetMaster This sound like neither one of those guys ideas, and is definitely more of the parent company idea rather than SIE.

I get that the Worlds game are entirely different to the other monster hunter games, but for a franchise that normally is designed for handheld… You shouldnt need a Pro console to get the best performance.

@K-Wud Will it really? The only way it bite them back. Is if Nintendo or another company all of a sudden decides to release an actual home console that can truly run modern games comparable to what we see from PlayStation or Xbox… Because at this point, Xbox is no competition; and everyone isn’t suddenly going to get up and move to PC.

RTO is just the nature of beast. Yeah it sucks that you now have to disrupt your perfect work life balance. Move back to the city. Instead of living in the middle of nowhere. Jacking up the cost of living for the people who lived there for generations, forcing them to leave town. Now you have to go back to waking up 3 hours before your shift starts cause you need to sit in heavy traffic. Have to go back to paying a baby sitter to look after your unruly spawns…. Etc

@Shad361 The issue with 3DS was that they were trying to sell a $300 handheld that was worse than the vita. By the time sales picked up after the price cut… We were already talking about the Switch. Which didn’t help since Nintendo basically pulled content from 3DS to sell the Switch.

@naruball They had Pokémon… But Pokémon at the time was only on handhelds. They wasn’t really making any games for consoles. After the game cube, they basically gave up into trying to bring the franchise to home console in a big way.

@Shad361 “I personally think switch 2 will decline like the nes to snes in sales.”

Nah… They have Pokémon

“ The game will mark the return of our new releases on Steam Day 1.”

Nice! Guess I can preorder now!!!

Anyone who is still play on Xbox one and PS4 are probably the people who don’t care about visual quality or frame rate. They would just appreciate being able to play the game in general

The more i see of the Pro. The more I'm tempted to purchase one

"A sense the game would come together because the team was too good to fail."

Why does this same thing always seem to come up when we're dealing with legacy studios or studios spin-off from legacy studios

There must be a curse on Bungie and any studio related to them... cause every studio spun off from them have done nothing but struggle. Firewalk, 343, Certain Affinity... etc are all struggling.

@Pompey71 I mean… I can’t probably name any here. But you can look around key selling site and find it cheap. Just like Steam can have sale, those sites can sales. But those site normal price for the Remake is usually already $34.99.

@mariomaster96 I never had issues getting HFW to run well on my steam deck. You just have to tinker with the settings a bit.

@KawakiisaFraud I don't know about Shift Up... But Koei did speak on the low games sales during it investor meeting. They had to revise its forecast for the financial year due "to recent game launches resulting in lower sales than initially expected"

But that could either be Wild Hearts or Rise of the Ronin

@Pompey71 "The reason on PC for sales being low, is they don't understand how Steam pricing works!"

Pricing isn't the main issue... If you know anything about PC, you can easily find the game vastly cheaper than the Steam price.

The main issue is that Square Enix PC ports are hot garbage filled with a lot of performance issue, and a very basic option menu.

Steam players also don't like the idea of being a second-class citizen to the Epic store. It took a year to release on Steam after the Epic Store release, and they still didn't feel like fixing the performance issues.

@mariomaster96 Ragnarök was also on PS4, so I have no doubt that this will run fine on Steam Deck or Rog Ally

@CielloArc I don't think DD2 was nearly as long in development as any of these Final Fantasy games, and Capcom doesn't spend a lot of money on marketing unlike Square even tho they split the marking budget with Sony.

@jrt87 You’ll get some nerdy older folks that been messing with PC since when they came to the market, but that the outlier not the norm. Both of my parents not that much older than your father.. But both of them struggle to do the simplest of things. I don’t know what they’re going to do when I move out in a couple of weeks, and as some who IT support for residential customers. Most PC issues calls came from the 50+ age range.

“I'm mid 30s now and grew up installing stuff on DOS and having to deal with the various the wild west days of early 3D acceleration settings etc. Spent most of my 20s using Linux on my uni laptop.”

I did say a small subset of people over 30, not all 30 year olds.

I read one article about the younger generation falling behind in, don’t know it the same article as the one you seen. But falling behind was in terms of using a PC in an office environments… And that was because PC has always be an entertainment device, not a workhorse. It also doesn’t help that mid way through my school years, we switch from window based machines to chrome books and everything became google drive. So unfortunately my generation struggles trying to figure out how to fax something vs just installing Steam to play a game or set up a Minecraft server.

@NEStalgia Yeah, and some of y'all are still acting like it the DOS days. XD

My sister's coworker 8-year-old son just finished building him a customer gaming PC. Granted, I helped by providing a good site find parts. But PC gaming is not hard anymore.

@twitchtvpat Bruh, that vastly better than just an "ideal PC"... An i9 14900, 4900 gpu , 64gb ddr5 6k ram, dual 4tb nvme 2.0 hard drives... is not a PC. That is a workstation. You're not just buying that for gaming. You are buying that if your CAD rendering, 3D modeling, video edit.... etc.

This ain’t the early 2000s any more… PC aren't an hustle to setup at all. This whole “PC are too hard to use” dead back in early 2010’s. But I don’t know why we listening to PC advice from someone who haven’t had to set up PC before. He pays IT to do that.

TBH the only people who still find PC difficult are a small subset of 30s year olds and any one older than 40s. My generation and the generations coming behind mine have been using computers since before we could walk…

So good luck PlayStation. Your days are dwindling.

@Steel76 “ I don't understand why they did the same mistake, as with the PS4 Pro, and didn't use a more powerful CPU, to avoid bottlenecks like this.”

Cause console games are usually hardcoded for the CPU. Just slapping in a more powerful CPU could break compatibility which would either require developers going back in and spending a lot more time, money, and energy coding their game for the new CPU… or Sony will have make new software for Pro to emulate the CPU of the older PS5.

@CrashBandicoat “ Guys.............£1800 RTX4090's sold out. That's just the GPU, they are spending £1000+ on the rest of the PC too.”

People aren’t just buying 4090s for gaming. People are buying 4090s for WORK. That can be writes off as a business expense on tax…. Definitely not the same thing

This is either going to end up being Vive la révolution and out the Guillemots… Fitting since Ubisoft is a French company. Or this can end with the Guillemot running the entire company into the ground.

Live service is basically anything that is supposed to provide prolong user engagement... consistent patches, updates, DLC... etc are all aspects of a live service. It doesn't just have to be monetization through skins or loot boxes. It just has to be something that can keep people returning to the game outside of the normal launch window

I glad that this game failed solely for the fact it'll hopefully bring Sony and PlayStation's ego down a notch. I can't remember the last time PlayStation has had an outright failure, and for the last 2 generations... PlayStation studio have given off the impression they're untouchable.

Nice! Definitely will pick it up later either on sale or when it releases for pc some time down the line.

@Boucho11 May be mediocre… But still better than Outlaw, and would have probably scored higher and sold better.

Cool! No one cares… Can you forget about this game, Julian, and go back to making The Division. I’ve been waiting almost 6 years for 3.

@Boxmonkey "going to bankrupt a huge name sooner or later"

We're kinda due for the loss of a major publisher/developer. We haven't had one in a while... The last one was THQ?

@crossbit "Never reload a checkpoint from the moment after making a reputation-changing decision; as it stands, it will tend to load you back to the moment before the decision but will keep your reputation from the moment after... and promptly lower it even more."

This sound like a bug, and not something intended.

@crossbit TBH… People need to stop relying so heavily on auto saving. You really should be doing a manual save every 30 to an hour. I personally still approach modern like it still 2000. Gamers have become so relaxed about saving cause now game literally auto save after ever action the player performs… Player open chest, auto save. Player enters room, auto save. Character model breaths, auto save.

I had planned to purchase Outlaws collector edition…But Ubisoft reluctance to release on Steam Day 1 had me cancel any plans of supporting this game period.

@BrotherFriede Firewalk is full of ex-bungie employees, and is located in the same city of Bellevue, WA. I would be surprised if Bungie didn’t help grease the wheel so that Concord could get made over Factions.

@Savage_Joe Wasn't Hulst CEO of Playstation Studios before coming CEO of SIE? So, he was in charge of overseeing studios and approving game development... It is as much his fault as it is Jimbos.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner The grass is always greener on the other side

I'm just saying that we are getting it way easier in the game industry with the amount of bull crap we deal with...

@PsBoxSwitchOwner “ No other industry would be accepting this quality. You wouldn’t buy a car that’s missing the paint. Or a hotel with no bed.”

We really need to stop using these analogies. Cause you actually looked at the automobile industry and massive amount of bull crap they get away with? I mean car manufacturers are now shipping cars that require subscriptions to get features you paid for.

My $50k car came from the factory with an engine tick, and one of the worse and cheapest manual transmissions that shouldn’t be in a $40k+ car much less a $50k sport car.

EA wish they could get away with the bull crap Ford, BMW, GM… etc gets away with.

Any more expensive, I’m probably just going to stop gaming all together. So far this year, I only purchased like 3-4 games, and that was only cause I was able to get them for under $50 on launch day. Another price increase will likely put these same game back into the $60-70 price even with launch day discounts… I can easily find another hobby to fill my time, and it’ll likely also save me from expensive hardware purchases.

@Bobobiwan Unfortunately, being exec doesn’t really require you to be master of the subject for the thing you’re in charge of… You just have to know how to buy companies and make money. This dude is unfortunately very skilled in that since he co-found 2k and was president of the publishing label before he join Amazon in 2018.