CielloArc

I mean, is it that surprising?
Xbox sales has been dropping since the half of 7th gen, people just tend to forget because the 360 was "good".

Xbox wants to keep making hardware, lets see if Microsoft agrees with that... and they don't.
I'm not even kidding, shareholders are pissed with the performance of the hardware division, both Surface and Xbox failed to turn profit or gain market share.

@Shepherd_Tallon
Given what has been said about this situation, one can guess CR won't offer anything due to licensing and distribution issues that have to be negotiated again, not only with with Japan but within US too.

@K1LLEGAL Crunchyroll case doesn't even apply here because their problem is the same as Netflix, Amazon Video, Twitch, Youtube and so on: the costs of running a video on demand service are huge right now, like really huge.
A simple 1080p stream with 1000 viewers on Twitch costs around $2000 to keep around, and that's per stream, people are estimating Netflix and Crunchyroll might be the same or even more given they don't own the infrastructure used to deliver or distribute the content.

TL;DR: The upkeep for those kind of services are quite high and the price hiking is inevitable for both the company and the customer. It's unsustainable in the long term and god knows if streaming is really the future now that we know that..

Playstation Studios does not compete with Xbox because MS side hasn't put up a fight for 15 years, but it does compete with Nintendo and other 3rd party publishers both in sales and in quality.

Is this the Bend one or another new rumor?
Anyways, I'd rather have a Killzone, Infamous or Resistance remake.

Hells, throw in some Sly or J&D
EDIT: Oh, and Syphon Filter too almost forgot about this one.

Anytime I see Sony devs being harassed like this the first thing that comes to mind is: Greenberg bribbed some bots with GamePass.

@themightyant
It won't have an upgrade path because its kinda like TLOU Part 1 on that aspect, same game as the original but an entire new product in itself.

However they'll have to prove this game is worth the $70 they'll probably charge.

Being realistic, we'll see a FF7 Demo drop and some other projects that might release this year, like Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin, Silent Hill 2 and Metal Gear Delta.

Most staff were customer support and physical sales
Well, guess you won't be needing those if you keep aiming at the third place.

Sucks for those who got fired and for those who got an Xbox.

@themightyant
You're being generous with those few years, I'll give it a few months until P3R FES appears.

Also between this and LAD:IW stuff I think SEGA wants out of some deal they signed.

Honestly the main problem big gaming companies have is that they try to make a full fledged game.
You don't need a full fledged game, just make a game that you can play while commuting, which most games on that list actually manage to accomplish.

@species
Of course it will, that's the fate of every analog that doesn't use hall effect.

Why go after her? She isn't at fault the character looks ugly and is beyond annoying.

I think there's no better franchise to showcase this new tech, but I'm also hoping for a good movie, and that really isn't Sony Pictures forte.

Meh, hard pass.
Also, pirate themed games are another niche that only NA and some EU countries care, don't expect a bump in sales.
Even on Steam the game doesn't have a huge playerbase.

Wasn't PSVR2 also announced at CES?
Anyways, I don't expect anything besides TVs and peripherals.

Dualsense is fine, but most developers I know who develop for consoles say they prefer both Sony and Nintendo over MS because both the SDK and API for those platforms are easier to deal with.

Well, instead of pondering what that tweet means, I'll just point out that this year is the year of the dragon, that and Riot just teased a Spyro-like dragon champion.

So yeah, I'd bet they just wanted to ride that wave and get some free views

"60 per cent of playtime is dominated by just 19 titles"
Of the entire market or just the live service part? Also, are they counting titles individually, ie MW2 and MW3 get their own entry, or are they grouping by franchise? Are they counting gachas as live service too?

I don't doubt the market is dominated by just a handful of titles, but a little clarification on the methodology used is needed.

Given that very recently we saw CoD devs being a bunch of crybabies over a joke on TGA, I doubt any claims coming from both current and former devs.

As far I know, this only happened because a manufacturer leaked the keys and the firmware for DS4, and even then consumers were not affected because the firmware wasn't banned, you can still use it to flash a GP2040-CE arcade stick that will work on PS4/PS5 and a lot of chinese DS4 knockoffs use it too.

So this is how Activision dies at the hands of Microsoft, quite sad.
I'm not fond of Bobby, however he IS the guy that made Activision a powerhouse company.

Jesus Christ, Xbox as a hardware manufacturer is melting worldwide while Sony and Nintendo are still selling their hardware like hotcakes.

GET READY FOR THE NEXT BATTLE!
TEKKEN 8!
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW CHALLENGER!

This better be in the game, it gets me hyped.

I'd rather get that than Miles being the protag of SM3.
Pete sharing playtime with him an MJ was the lowest point of SM2, despite the game being the best, if not one of the best, SM game ever made.

@themightyant
That value must also be quite low too tbh.
I mean, its not like Indy is a best seller franchise, making it an exclusive is the best move in order to cut any possible financial loss.

Sh*t year for games? Nah, pretty sure this is just an Activision skill issue. If this was a joke about the layoffs or other stuff I would understand the backlash.

Wonder what they'll do, I know they won't update to Zen3 or RDNA3. Maybe they'll do 3D V-Cache for the CPU and increase the CU count of the GPU.

Let me just say that this year was a damn good year for games and even the favorite one that was expected to win by a sweep, Baldur's Gate 3, got hit in the left field by a newcomer, Alan Wake 2.

What matters is that SM2 is good enough to get 7 nominations despite not making any claims of being the game of the century, 25 years in the making, etc.

The funniest thing about this is SEGA probably used the data they collected from Switch Online subscription, the data they collected from the arcades in Yakuza and the overall public sentiment towards their old IPs before going this way.

Kudos to SEGA and I hope for a new Altered Beast and a
new Golden Axe Warrior in the near future.

A bozo with tats all over his face and body ain't unique though.
In fact you can find lots of them in Tik Tok and Instagram.

I'll download Powerwash once PSN decides to actually let me do it.

Since you can't even access the content you purchased it means Sony doesn't even run those servers in order to serve the content, otherwise you oughta be able to access the things you purchased.

Discovery has the keys and locked everyone out.

@InsaneWade
You're not wrong in that line of thinking, my bet lies on Steam Deck, and it would be awesome if Deck stepped in as a direct competitor.

@Fiendish-Beaver
If Microsoft leaves, someone will show up to fill the gap, just as Nintendo filling the gap Atari left or better, just as Microsoft did with Sega.

Happened before, will happen again, that's the beauty of this market.

Guess they got laughted by both Ninty AND Sony this time.

This is getting kinda stupid, kinda like a "He didn't punch me, I headbutted his fist" scenario.
Just take the L and start working on games that work outside the NA mentality and tastes Microsoft, worked for Nintendo, worked for Sony and it should work you too.

@HonestHick
Keep believing in MS lies bub, if their goal was really to bring titles to as many gamers as they can we would have MS titles on other platforms without GP attached. Their goal is simple:
Get as many suckers they can into GP and push other competitors off the market, basic strategy MS did for years on PC market.

If they really want good faith from real gamers, release the titles without GamePass attached, put them on PS5, Switch, Epic and GoG, make a Linux port so those games run native on Steam Deck. Y'know, be the "pro gamer, pro consumer" company they claim to be.

Earbuds for me are always a miss, I'm more of a headphone guy.
Like DAC + AMP + decent headphone = a good enough soundspace that really makes the audio pop out.

Yeah, no it doesn't work like that.
Not even a "watered down" version would work.

Sony, Nintendo and MS have services and storeres that works as a closed ecosystem of sorts. Why the hells would Sony or Nintendo let another type of ecosystem invade their own? Just to lose subscribers and revenue?

Unless MS goes full 3rd party it won't happen.
Or better yet, since they seem commited to "put their games on every screen" just release the games then, no GP attached.

The irony of all of this is Xbox finally served for something other than being the buttend of a joke.

Nice to see this kind of partnership blooming in Korea, the gamedev scene there was always strong but was never noticed outside some MMOs and gacha games.

@Foxx_64740 They probably contacted Neowiz to add Lies of P in PS Plus.

Yeah, no, thank you very much.
Here on my family we have a policy of never giving cash as a gift because giving cash is a "good way of saying you don't care about that person enough to know his tastes" and giving subscriptions/premium currency is no different than giving cash.

Oddly enough, the "censored" version is anatomically correct.
Remember people, your body isn't a blob, it won't jiggle as much after the first movement.

Hey, if PS5 success is due to ridding on the PS4 coattails then I guess we could blame the Series failure on the One flop? Or maybe it was 360 implosion?

What about the Switch? It has been outselling both PS5 and Series, but given the arguments presented it shouldn't be possible given that the predecessor console, Wii U, was an utter failure.

Bots can't understand what building a brand is, after all their company hasn't created anything worth a dime over the last decade and a half, kudos to Nintendo and Sony for building their brands over the span of decades and for giving us awesome experiences.

I love to see bots screaming because their so beloved "best console of all times", erm, correction, "best Xbox of all times", can't outsell a "useless" handheld.
I mean, it can't even outsell a glorified 2014 tablet on a normal day, although I can understand why the tablet sells and the "best Xbox" don't.

@PixelDragon
At this point I'd bet the N-Gage would outsell the Series, on a 3:1 basis even.

I'm not so sure this is more about Sony's policy than it is about the CDPR not wanting to give its customers a better product, since we have so many other cases of companies going that "extra mile".

I'm honestly not surprised, MS thought they could get a fat market share by going the Netflix route and it isn't working because you need to output good IPs in order for it work.

Good as in an IP that isn't USA-centric, that can pack some marketing punch and that isn't niche.
So far this year they released Hi-Fi Rush, Redfall and Starfield, they were so ashamed of Hi-Fi Rush they did a "stealth drop", I don't even need to mention the disaster that was Redfall and Starfield didn't quite hit the mark with its 20 year old gameplay.

It's paid real state