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@UltimateOtaku91
TBH they should've lead with that.
Imagine how lesser the backlash would be if the trailer was like "TLoU Part 2 Complete Edition, upgrade from your PS4 version for 10 bucks or buy it new for 70".

Sometimes it feels like when Shawn left half of the marketing team went with him.

Does TLoU2 need a remaster? No.
Will I buy it? Also no, its asinine to relaunch a $70 dollar game released less than half a decade ago, put some """upgrades""" on it and call it a remaster.

Just vote with your wallets people, the sound of money going away is stronger than any words you can utter.

@OldGamer999
While it is a development problem, it isn't one related to hardware. Its more on the game design/demographic side.

Xbox games are so NA-centric they fail to sell anywhere else in the world. And while selling on NA is good enough, it literally dooms your product in the long run.

Nintendo games are not tied to a specific demographic and they sell practically everywhere, Sony games gets so much flak but they aren't tied to a specific public and they still sell everywhere else.
MS games feels like they are tied to a specific public: your average 13~30yr dude bro who plays mostly FPS.

A decline isn't as bad as growing stale, investors actually hate the latter and see some prospect in the former.

If Sony hasn't published a number its probably on the same boat as MS: the numbers have gone stale.

@themightyant
Kinda of a self-fulfiling prophecy if it comes to that.

Anyways, unlike Hollywood, game industry can simply tell SAG-AFTRA to stick their strike where the sun doesn't shine and outsource VA, Mocap and similar stuff to other countries.

A lot of words just to say: "We had to increase price due to worldwide inflation going on"

I honestly find this statement from the "preservation community" quite ironic given that they praise MS a lot, the same company that sells you a console that requires an internet connection for the first boot and will phone home on a constant basis to validate even you physical copies.

Anyways, this was expected no? I mean, you know how many hacks and expoits were made using disc drivers? Of course a detachable disc drive would come with some kind of DRM.

Of course they are masterpieces, they're not made by Xbox Studios.

Jokes aside, or not given the sorry state of Xbox games, both games did the basic homework and build upon successful past experiences, the chances of them failing were slim to none at all.

The incentives most companies had to keep people employed during the pandemic aren't here anymore, expect heavy layoff across the industry.

I think they deserve a beating, no more, no less.
Wanna make a change? Go be a researcher or something, advocate for oil alternatives, etc.

I hope it isn't Rise of Ronin.
I'd rather have a new dev trying a new entry in the genre than a Team Ninja game.

Those guys tried 4 times already and never got the formula right.

It is mostly for movies though.
Anyways, I agree that it will hardly affect Nintendo and Sony, after all unlike Xbox those consoles sell outside US and physical media is still a thing for most countries.

Oh, that's why I was booted from my BG3 co-op run.
I was able to resume the run an hour after though.

Let me just say this: when Iger left the company was at its peak and the smooth brains who pushed ideas that literally made Disney drop from the peak are the ones pushing this idea too.

No need to say their opinion shouldn't be heard, anyone with 2 brain cells working knows that the model Disney has right now doesn't generate huge revenues, but it does generate profit, CONSTANT profit mind you.
Right now Disney doesn't need to deal with development costs, advertising nor anything related to game development, they just license their IPs and collect royalties. No costs, only profit, small but constant profit.

That ain't something new though, I've yet to see a Slim version with a vertical stand included.

On the other hand, spoilers for Spidey games are usually predictable.

I mean, its a black suit arc, its bound to have Peter going ham and someone close to him either kicking the bucket or getting hurt directly or indirectly by Peter.

I mean, its not impossible for Sony to make a good live service game, but instead of relying on new IP they should just invest in the IPs they already have.

Killzone could have a SP campaign while keeping the MP side a live service, same thing with Resistance.
Hells, even Horizon could have a live service MP game inspired by MonHun, where you create your character, go around chasing robot dinossaurs and use robot dinossaur part to upgrade your weapon/armor, better yet, it could be a standalone F2P game.

Nuking like that just means that both Aspyr and Saber builds were unable to meet the minimum criteria for both Sony and Disney.

How two devs could be this incompetent is beyond me.

Last "horror" game from Sony I've played was Until Dawn.
Makes me wonder if this new game is a Siren reboot.

Is it that surprising? I mean, almost no company is like MS who has the money to keep flopped GaaS, like Halo Infinite and Sea of Thieves, going around.

The timing of this announcement might seem odd, but given the fact the guy has been working with Sony for 30 years I wouldn't be surprised if this was a just a simple retirement.

Anyways, 30 years is more age than most bots complaining about him probably have.

The strike probably won't happen because unlike other industries the game industry can, and will, outsource any part that becomes a hindrance or bottleneck.

So yeah, a strike happening on US will probably mean outsourcing it to UK/Canada/Australia/etc.

The story doesn't add up.
They claim to be a legit white hat group but then acts like a red hat one.

I'm just wondering why open two separate consultations if the only concern was cloud gaming.
Maybe the leaked emails did more damage than we thought?

Just a reminder that a $30 increase might mean 3x or even 5x depending on what country you're in.

That was definitely a bad move from Sony.

Good for devs? Yeah, agreed, less SKUs to develop for.
Better for players? No way in hell.

Also, here's a simple solution: the industry should embrace more open source alternatives and make them the standard in any software or hardware available in the market.

Does Ridge Racer work with a racing wheel?

@Nem Microsoft strategy of having two very different SKUs and forcing devs to develop for both usually comes and bites them back at the weirdest momments possible.

What's next? Amazon wanting a proof of humanity for me to buy a hammer and a couple of nails?

AI is a tool, its here to stay. Senior devs and artists are already experimenting with it.

Or it could be Greenberg's marketing team at it again.
Because I've been hearing the same story even before the PS5 launched and it always points out to some very specific and very isolated cases.

Ya know, this smells like teen BS.
Specially when we now know that MS has deep pockets and could easily outbid Sony in any exclusivity deal, they just choose not to.

Overall I'm good with what they offer on PS Plus, what I do wish is something totally unrelated to PS Plus: folders and themes for PS5.

It was a solid alright, a solid 6/10.
Let's be real, most people only watched it for No Man's Skyrim and the game wasn't as near as mind blowing as they said it would be.

Gee Ubisoft, I wonder why. Let's see:
You said you were working on a Sands of Time remake.
You know people WANT Sands of Time remake.
You show up, say there's Prince of Persia news and it is a totally unrelated game to Sands of Time that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE asked for.

Yeah, no wonder people are out with pitchforks and torches.
And no matter what they want to paint, this isnt a case of people "not liking a character because he's black", but rather a simple case of a company lacking common sense enough to see this isn't the best time to announce any PoP game that isn't Sands of Time remake.

There's also the fact that people are waiting for the demo before hitting that pre-order button.

I kinda wanna play SF6 but it has been years since I last played a fighting game and I don't really enjoy playing it on a gamepad.

It really depends, for me it was a solid 3/10.
A showcase is supposed to show what your own projects, alongside some big projects from third party partners, we didn't even get a Days of Play or any kind of annoucement related to PSN.

Instead half of the showcase was indie games that could be shown in a State of Play, a handheld accessory that nobody asked for and has no public and a teaser for a movie no one wants to watch.

Best? No, it was awful, one of, if not, THE WORST showcase I've ever seen. There was almost no first party content, the saving grace was literally Spider-Man 2.

If you don't have any big guns to shoot then simply don't shoot.
If this was a State of Play people would be more forgiving.

Wanna know the funny part? It sold more than Xbox series on that same time period.

People say it might appear on MS showcase, but SEGA still can do its own showcase on SGF, like Capcom did last year.

Given MS record with acquisitions, expect a CoD: Redfall edition very soon.

Well, ToTK is pretty much the confirmed GOTY for 2023, of course people would congratulate and even mention this game.
As for devs, I can bet a house most of them are playing ToTK and taking notes on how to improve their own game, one way or another.

If anything Pro version would be more focused into tech rather than raw performance improvements, things like RT, FSR and Freesync.

The problem here is that most of this could be also added to base PS5 via firmware updates and updates to Sony's API.

The news itself isn't as interesting as the fact that a bunch of sites were proven wrong. Most of news outlets have been reporting that "CMA is most likely to approve the deal" since last week.

Wonder who their source was and how much MS paid for it.

Just a reminder: raising prices is a common practice on Steam, especially if people are changing their store region just to capitalize on some cheap games in certain regions.

But then again, some people like to go ape mode once they see the name Sony, they don't read, nor research, just complain and go "unga bunga Jim Ryan unga bunga".

Just remember this next time you vote: your tax money is being used to defend Microsoft instead of being used to solve real problems.

Not even related to what she said, but I saw the thumbnail and went:
"Ayo, why this chick has a mustache?"

Also, he didn't show any examples from other console manufacturers, how can we be sure Nintendo, Microsoft or other companies aren't using the same terms but with different wording?

Y'know, if there was something wrong with the terminology used the patent wouldn't be granted, because they do like to nitpick every single word just to make sure it doesn't break another patent.

I thought a supposed "specialist" would know that.

I kinda wish discoverability was the only problem here, but the underlying issue lies on the fact that Sony marketing team turned Playstation into a premium brand. People who buy premium brands usually want a perceived value with each purchase they do, and indie games perceived value isn't quite upfront if compared to an AAA game.