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@BeerIsAwesome they’ll start digging around for less popular IP… Can’t wait for Angry Beavers or cat dog in Fortnite. Maybe an Alice in wonderland Fortnite themed event would be cool.

@somnambulance @Tharsman @UltimateOtaku91 FF7 Rebirth. Reunion came out last year in December.

@Rafie He was the original Dragon Quest character designer/artist… Not creator.

@Arisen The game rights aren’t handled by the tolkien estate… Those rights were sold in the 60s or something. The rights are currently owned by Middle-earth Enterprises which was bought by Embracer Group in 2022.

@NEStalgia "The "best" GaaS games have people compulsively playing it that aren't having fun but feel a need to push continuously at it despite it causing misery, and still pumping money into it."

This is so true especially when you look at the communities especially for Destiny. Do they do nothing but complain but yet they still dump hours into it, buy the skins, battle pass, and every DLC. Evern my close friend is a Destiny addict who has over 2k hrs into the just Steam version alone... Does nothing but complain about how he not having fun but continues to play and spend.

@Renegade_master "The number of games that could potentially decline in quality"

ABK only makes like 3 or 4 games (CoD, Overwatch, WoW, and Diablo)... And most of these are already have massively declined in quality. At least under Microsoft, we could have still gotten the PvE for Overwatch. ABK is literally sitting on a bed of used IP especially all those unused Sierra Entertainment cause as soon as one of their studios makes something good... They are killed off to join the CoD and Blizzard mines.

"MS killed their biggest Franchise in Halo and most of the development Studio"

While it suck about what happened to Halo, I do not feel sorry for 343. They are directly to blame for the downfall of Halo and the studio need to have been killed off during the Xbox One generation. But if it have been nothing but good news since they killed of most of the top management.

@Mad001 That what happens when you don’t go with a traditional publisher.

@somnambulance TBH i expect Pragmata to become another deep down. Capcom just wanna do a “me too” with fancy graphical games announcement at the start of the generation before falling back to same old tried IPs.

@somnambulance Isn’t Pragmata a capcom game? We didn’t need 3 capcom games shown in one showcase.

@Oh_fiddlesticks I don’t think it going to show up at SGF either. I wasn’t expecting it at the PlayStation showcase either. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the franchise come June, and both Naughty Dog and Last of Us have out grown PlayStation. They will probably be hosting their own events to mark the 10th anniversary, show off faction, drop information on season 2 of the show, and hopefully announce a PC port of Part 2 🤞

@Olmaz Jade is the definition of “It's who you know, not what you know”. With over 20 years in the industry with multiple years spent at Sony, EA, and Ubisoft… She has enough contacts within the industry to fund any idea and studio she wants.

@Rob_230 Price. OLED is still expensive, and not worth it for cheap devices like this.

@ShogunRok Isn't Black Myth Wukong hoping to launch this summer? I can understand the delay for that game given that it UE5, and we are only now starting to UE5 games release this summer.

@3Above Does Sony even own the rights to hand it off to one of their internal studios? Cause I feel like Sony didn’t really have a say in who developing it and are just paying for it development for it be exclusive.

@Tharsman GeForce Now*

@BlueBeemer But the normies aren't mad tho. The one who are mad, people who hang around on sites like this, aka their hardcore fan base, are generally upset which are the people I’m talking about.

@UltimateOtaku91 That what happens when you build your fan base solely off of single players games…. It not any different with Microsoft struggling to sell to JRPG or purely single players games to their fan base.

All most 500k for a broken game is amazing. Imagine if they actually had released it in working order.

@Nepp67 I don't think it comes down to the weapon they use... But what aligns best with the culture of the Samurai. Warlock in destiny fit more with the culture of the Samurai than a Titan or Hunter would. It similar to how to Ghost being a Cordyceps from Last of Us make sense due to when Ghost revives their Chosen, they are bonded together from that point forward. A "neural symbiosis" begins between them.

@helloim_anthony It cause people have been beat over the head so many times with live service games. That people have forgotten that co-op ≠ live service.

Sony could absolutely dominate the PC vr market if they allowed the PSV2 to be compatible with PC. VR on PC is basically free territory at this point. Most people are sick of Facebook and HTC. Valve is also a no show when it comes to announcing a index 2.

@KidRyan Unless they’re plan on announcing another Ratchet or Clank or Gravity Rush. I doubt there will be anything I’ll look forward to.

@KaijuKaiser I don’t really know what your comment has to do with mine, but I generally have no issues with game performance when it comes to PC gaming… Elden Ring had performed fine for me since release, and well… Jedi Survivor doesn’t meet my standards on any platform. If anything, even with the worse PC optimization, I can still get a better experience than consoles cause I’m fine with buying expensive hardware.

@SoulChimera So they’re not casual but are core gamers.

@SoulChimera It probably help that since your friends are “casuals”. They aren’t buy more than 2-3 games a year?

That $70 only starts to hurt when you’re buying like 15-20 games a year.

Amazon has been trying to do a Lord of Rings MMO for years now… I’ll be old by the time this releases.

Sony can do whatever and people will lick it. As for me, I’m done with console gaming at this point. I haven’t turned my PS5 on since Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart… I’m current looking to sell it.

If it wasn't for Renfield, I would have completely forgotten that he existed because he only been in Direct-to-stream movie... The last movie I seen with him in it was Ghost Rider.

@Kingdom_Hearts95 It no stranger and bittersweet as seeing Bungie as a Playstation studio with their Xbox oriented history.

Unless Sega plans to massively upgrade the quality of their games I won't be paying $70. Nothing they release is worth a $70 price tag. Everything they release still looks and plays like a late PS3-Early PS4 Era game.

There are very few games/studios I will buy a $70 game from... Sony's game I will gladly pay $70 for.

Sorry, Nintendo, I don't not care how good ToTK is. Until you release hardware where I can get higher performance than 720P/20FPS. Your games are not worth the $70... I don't see how any games made on the Switch have a budget so great that you need a $70 price tag to recoup cost.

With Microsoft that a tircky one....

@BlueWeezer Why would you say that? Both remake of Crash and Spyro were extremely well done which they assisted with. Toys to life games may not be loved by the hardcore, but they were fun games. Crash 4 was also well received.

I don’t see any issues with Toys for Bob continuing to helm these IP into the future.

@KaijuKaiser At least with Microsoft owning the character. There is at least a future. Cause it not like Activision had any real plans for the character. They killed off Vicarious Visions and is slowly moving Toys for Bob over to CoD as a support studio. Microsoft buy out is both Crash; and even maybe Spyro last chance. Since there was talks of bring back Skylander due to the influx of cash, hardware manufacturing and supply chain that Microsoft can provide.

@Critonic There is a lot more then "once a year outstanding 1st party game, or poorly optimized 3rd party ports." There is a treasure trove of titles that literally don't see a release on other platforms. PS5 is only drowning in choice cause it piggybacking off the larger library of PS4. If it wasn't for the PS4, the PS5 would be deader than a doorknob

@KaijuKaiser I mean... Tomorrow Is Not Promised. A lot can easily change in 10 years. These counties or Microsoft may not even be around in 10 years. You can't base a deal on what will happen in over 10 years.

NOOOOO! insert Darth Vader meme here Of all the studios to handle a MW3 don’t let it to be Sledgehammer…

@XenonKnight I'm a PC gamer, so them making CoD Xbox/Window only doesn't bother me, but I absolutely don't see CoD going Xbox/Windows only. Even if they was able to get everyone on Game Pass. CoD is an esports game, and esports games have to be on as many platforms as possible to stay profitable. The only way I can see CoD going exclusive is if they massive scale down how often CoD releases a new game, and content by moving studios away from the IP. Which is possible since Phil wants to move Toys for Bob from working on CoD to working on other retro games.

@JayJ They aren't worried about Microsoft taking away CoD. It the other IPs that Activision owns that none of these companies seem to care about like Crash or Spyro.

@Tharsman Foster City, California is Sledgehammer headquarters. Those other areas are subsidiaries with the UK one only just opening in 2021.

@tameshiyaku Man... I would sell my first-born son for any game based of the OG Dragon Ball.

@WolfyTn I doubt symkaria would even have buildings tall enough to really jump from, much less swing from.

@Heavy_Artilery style AND substance is subjective. Are they pretty looking games. Yes. But the actual gameplay (the punch and counter, free-flow combat, collectable filled map...etc) of those games has been done to death by this point, and the only thing that make those games worth playing is if you like a good Batman game.

@swagbag7 Arkham City was a product of it time. None of the Arkham games really hold up well today cause so many games have come out and have done what they did better.

But the thing is Spider-Man also doesn't bring anything new to the table that hasn't been done in the Arkham games or past Spider-Man games. It just offers it in a more polished package.

If Spider-Man has release at the same time as Arkham City. It would have probably been rated higher.

I swear i thought Gravity Rush already has an anime. But I guess Ouverture doesn't count.

@theMEGAniggle Meh, about better games. Cause let’s be honest, the big Xbox 360 selling point wasn’t Halo and Gears, it was CoD. When you and your bros got sick of getting Gnashered in gears and got bored of Halo. Most just hop on CoD. So Xbox being a better place to play cod with a mostly solid 60, and first dibs on DLC meant more than better games.

@theMEGAniggle The Xbox 360 popped on the PS3 cause it was cheaper, released a year earlier, and was just a straight up better console.

@Hesse I mean… I bought my switch the portability (I’ve own 3 switches, all 3 docks is still wrapped in their boxes). I couldn’t care about Mario, Zelda, or Pokémon. I’m sure plenty of people also bought a switch for same reason

I get everyone wants Titanfall 3, but let the studio create what they want. The studio is clearly very talented. I would prefer for them to create titanfall 3 when they’re ready to make it, not when we’re ready for it to be made. I would love to see what else they can create when the game isn’t related to the titanfall or Star Wars universe.

@GADG3Tx87 “ So it makes sense to take games away from other people when a publisher is doing just fine? And for what? Bragging rights?”

I think you miss understanding my point

But No. Not from the sense of taking games away from other people. From the sense if Microsoft was going to purchase another publisher. Sega is only next logical choice. Buying either EA, Square Enix, Take two, or Konami makes no sense. These companies offer nothing useful or have any type of history with Microsoft. It doesn’t matter if their history happened 20 years ago. Sega also cares more about taking Microsoft money considering they was fine turning their back on long term Yakuza PlayStation fans and making the next generation of Like a dragon exclusive to Xbox. Sega also had a large presence on PC with owning studios like Creative Assembly (developers of Halo Wars 2) , Relic, and Amplitude.

@GADG3Tx87 lmao. I guess it based on what you consider struggling.

Sega does make sense for the next purchase, not because they’re financially “struggling”, but because they’re the next logical step. I have personally always the consider the Xbox the spiritual successor of Sega consoles. And if you have looked at the share history of each company… it makes sense.

@GADG3Tx87 I don’t know why people think Sega is struggling. They own Atlus, Ryu Ga Gotoku, and Sonic.