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@Vdweller "We live in a world where only 32% of gamers actually finish the game
But this is Gamepass/PSpremium thing right?"

No. This has nothing to do with Game pass/PS premium. Not everything in the industry is the fault those service.

People have been saying this for ages that gamers aren't completing games well those services existed. Games are selling "xxx" millions of copies per year, but if you look at achievement/trophies. Games that have achievement/trophies for the final level or beating the game. The % are extremely low. Most people aren't even finishing first level or tutorials based of %.

@Porco Sakaguchi literally stated that in multiple interviews for the game that there was no plans for it prior to Apple. Whether or not Apple was looking for “big names”. This game only spawn because of that… We would have probably ended up with a vastly different game had they went with someone, or they would continue supporting Terra.

Who to say it was a bad fit? The only people who had problems with it. Are those who holds a grudge against mobile gaming in general or Apple.

@Porco "the apple arcade version (which nobody wanted)."

If it wasn't for Apple or Apple Arcade... This game wouldn't exist period. It was a game that only came into existence due Sakaguchi meeting with some Apple employees, who were fans of both Final Fantasy and Uematsu's work, and the funding that provided to them through Apple Arcade.

Great game. Really enjoyed playing it on my iPhone and MacBook. Great that it getting more attention.

@Nem The only issue isn’t that other two games aren’t completely self contained… If I remember correctly, the main player character, Hawke, from 2 shows up in Inquisition. Which means you’re missing out the relationship building between Hawke and Varric.

@UltimateOtaku91 "Reasons vary by each person, for me it's not the Xbox games or the Xbox console as both look great, it's Microsoft and their business strategy that I don't like and do not want to give my money to help them (in my opinion) consolidate the market even more.
If they ever become just a Publisher then il probably buy their games."

What kind of backwards statement is this... If you don't like their business strategy of consolidating the industry. That means you don't support them period. Cause you supporting them as a publisher sound like you just don't like Xbox consoles.

It definitely looks interesting… I probably only pick since they are releasing a version for iPad. But Ghost of Tsushima will continue to be king of Japan/Samurai games. I

@UltimateOtaku91 "Titanfall 1 full exclusive, GTA 4 DLC timed exclusive, Dead Rising and Ryse full exclusive etc etc" Phil wasn't even in charge of Xbox when these happened... Also, Xbox had some stake in the studio that did DR3 and DR4. So, they had contractual rights to the franchise, and was probably the only reason we gotten the sequels that we did.

@UltimateOtaku91 More like the usual. "We're a small devs team, and can't make work on multiple platforms at the same time, so are focusing on the biggest player base first".

We saw the same thing last gen. Xbox is just not a priority.

@MegaManX-7 The Sequel don't look bad... But out curiosity i booted up my PC copy, and yeah... It looks bad.

@MegaManX-7 If this comparison between the old and remake are real. The game need more than just 60FPS... The visual jump looks like jump from a Switch to PC, and that probably was the PS4 version. I can't imagine playing that on PS5 even with 60FPS.

@jorel262 Avalanche Software is probably busy also working on the sequel…

@Cjam36 Yeah. It better then laying off half the studio like it used to be.

@Frmknst Nah. A P2P model is better… Should hopefully keep micro transactions low, and at least will keep some toxic players at bay especially if the game doesn’t blow up in popularity.

@ShadowofSparta It was at one point... Now it trying to be the metaverse

@Gamer_X The Xbox Showcase hasn't leaked yet. Come Friday or Saturday there will be leaks. It happens every year, but also, I'm pretty sure the Xbox showcases are live events... They aren't just pre-recorded and uploaded to Youtube like the State of Plays.

@reek Cause being weaker then something doesn’t technically make it last gen. The only thing weaker about the S is the GPU, and the fact it has less available memory. It has a significantly better architecture, faster storage, a better CPU, support for Ray tracing… etc.

@Tecinthebrain I don't know where you're getting that PC gamers aren't watching these states of plays. 99% of the game show here are releasing on PC at some point... PC doesn't have a big event where a bunch of AAA game are announced that caters to them. So, these Playstation and Xbox event are literally the only place where a LOT of PC gamer can see announcements for the next big game.

@Orpheus79V I feel that they do this every event. So it something y'all just need to get used to.

@glennthefrog They are most likely forced to churn them out. Even tho it seem the developers are fine with making the games. But that what happens when you deal with licensed game. You have to churn an “X amount out” or lose the license. It really why Sony have to dump out a bunch of Spider-Man Universe based movies even tho they all suck.

This is probably why they move from in-house engine to UE5

@Mikey856 You forgot the GameCube… which was also a failure

@adit365 Yeah... The Avalanche studio's founder was not happy at all with George Miller comment on their game.

Cool. Won’t be buying tho… I don’t and have never really cared for Treyarch’s CoDs. I’m an infinity ward fan, so I can probably skips next year CoD as well if we get one.

@kcarnes9051 "that this sequel was originally supposed to be on Playstation? "

Do you have anything to confirm that the sequel was supposed to be on Playstation. Cause there was no confirm that a sequel was even in the works post release of the first game... Ninja Theory went straight to work on Bleeding Edge. So how can a non-existed sequel supposed to be on a platform.

@glennthefrog Cause it didn't take 5 year... more like 3-4 years. The development for the game didn't start till 2020, and it development was probably slow down due to covid, and the fact they had to wait for UE5 which didn't actually launch till 2022.

Can’t wait to play this. Quite enjoyed the first one… but didn’t get to finish it. Since it more or less crippled my GTX1060, and was just playable of my 2070 super. This time I have an 4090 to throw at it.

I really hope that this game tackles some of the fights in Super... I am getting sick of playing the same old fights from Z.

Also, who do I have to sell my soul in order to get a grounded OG Dragon Ball game?

@Americansamurai1 “ I think Herman is playing favorites” Not just Herman… I think there also another ex Guerrilla employee that head of development of something at PlayStation.

@CieloAzure Would we have wanted a sequel? The Ghostwire Tokyo we got probably wasn't even close to the one we were supposed to get since Ikumi Nakamura left a couple of months after it was announced.

@breakneck "How is Spencer still in the job? His gambles have all put Xbox in an even more precarious position."

Cause Phil job isn't just to sell plastic boxes... He job was to overall increase profit in their gaming division. Unfortunately, while his decisions look bad from our viewpoint. He brought Micrsoft from being 7 or 8th in term of revenue (They was getting beat out by Apple and Google). To now being 3rd behind Tencent and Sony, now ahead of Apple.

Imagine where they'll be if their gaming app store plans work out... They now control some of the biggest mobile games.

@Nem I don't consider Greedfall 2 a sequel either. And never stated it was... The article did.

The studio founder has never considered Technomancer a sequel. They stated that during plenty of interviews back when the game originally come out.

Good night Sweet Xbox, you were my pride and joy during my teenage years.

@Nem Not a sequel but set in the same universe.

@Kevw2006 "The only real use I can see for them is transferring saves to a new console and if you need to do that you could simply just sign up for one month to upload and download your saves to the new console."

idk,... Cloud saves is pretty important for more than just moving consoles. If you're someone who buys a lot of games. There is no way you can keep all those saves files on the tiny SSD consoles get. Eventually save data is going to cut into storage that already has to be share with large game downloads and photos/videos.

@Mikey856 An Xbox handheld would most likely just be an Xbox theme handheld PC running window with a custom UI... Basically what the is ROG Ally but green.

@HonestHick Here we go… with this nonsense 😒

Whether or not, it was Jim fault for that. The person he would have been speaking to approve that push for GaaS is Herman, the man who actually approve what titles get developed by their studio, since he was CEO of PlayStation studios.

Rich men don’t count miles. But some do get old, and would rather spend more time with their families.

@nomither6 I get that some of their studios being in California is a big reason. But like I mentioned before in another comment, one of the main reasons that Jim Ryan retired was because of the difficulties caused from having to travel from Europe to North America. These two will probably also get sick of it…

@Jay767 Yeah. But a lot those other businesses have CEOs and studio heads that also live in the states or California. One of the main reasons that Jim Ryan retired was because of the difficulties caused from having to travel from Europe to North America. I'm sure for these two... It probably also going to get to the point that traveling becomes a hassle.

@nomither6 I don't see them moving back to Japan anytime soon... Maybe Europe? I never understood why the Playstation HQ is in California to begin with. It a massive headache when your main leaders live in a completely different country than your main office.

@get2sammyb " I think PlayStation's hardware strategy has been good recently, especially with all the accessories like PS Portal and DualSense Edge."

Only if they fixed the massive issues with the Pulse Explore. I've bought 3 different pairs, and I have never had so many issues with static in buds or disconnects using the link adapter. They also don't even sound that great for the price which is sad when you realize that Playstation owns Audeze.

I mean... Game already do this to a degree. Nathan drake using a Sony phone, and Miles' is a swing ad for adidas and other sneaker makers.

@UltimateOtaku91 While Sony didn't have direct hands in shutting of the studio... Developers don't just shut studios down. Sony definitely played a part in the closure of the studio by either A) pulling funding. B) Canceling projects. C) Poaching talent

@pharos_haven It not about how powerful. It about the toolset they offer to make those games run on said hardware… Game hardware isn’t about brute strength anymore. The next generation switch will have access to stuff like FSR, DLSS, frame generation… etc.

@Sequel But the last year during FTC hearing, it was already reported that Dishonored 3 was in development? So how did we go from development to pitching?

Aka take these rumors with a pinch of salt.

@Haruki_NLI Because they want their own version of the Guardians of Galaxy hype... WB/DC has fallen so far behind Disney/Marvel.

@somnambulance But back when we had the OG Super Mario Bros... We didn't have to wait 15+ years for the sequel. We got Super Mario Bros 2 3 years later. I'm also sure games back then had limited production runs. It also doesn't help that Rockstar keeps porting it to new consoles and updating it with meaningful content.

@somnambulance Why is it so hard to imagine that every year someone is born... and eventually they'll be old enough to own GTA. I was in best buy today and someone was buying a PS5 for their son. Guess what they also bought with the consoles... GTA

This is turning out to be another Lionhead Studios style closure...

@nomither6 There are definitely a lot of late PS3 and early PS4 games that need a remaster/remake. Black Flag is one of them. Even maxed out on PC. The visuals of that game have not aged well. And playing it on a modern 4K TV with HDR using auto HDR will blow out the highlights. The game needs a true remake...