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Dogmeat hitting the griddy.

@GKT probably they pay more depending of the player. I don't see why Travis Hunter or Denovan Edwards would accept only $600. They are first/second rounders.

@Bez87 not yet. It's in development by a different team but yeah it could end as just a skin we'll see. Hopefully is good. The monetization plan comes from EA so at least for now it isn't an indicator of how the game plays.

If with realistic they mean realistic lego pieces and not Decima Aloy building LEGO LOL then this is going to look FANTASTIC.

The CEO of MS watching that 4 year old Ghost of Tsushima is selling more than Hellblade 2 on steam:

"So ... when exactly is the ps5 port ready?"

LOL

Gears of War and Halo in a box with a PS5 printed will feel very cheap and yet I would buy it.

I enjoyed the cards mechanic but I understand people were expecting marvel xcom not marvel card game. The thing is if they were expecting "mass appeal" then not even a xcom game would have saved the game from failure. The regular super hero game enjoyer wants action, if you see videos of this game most negative comments are about the turns mechanic not the cards.

I don't really care if it was censorship or not but the way this guy is managing the problem is showing more intelligence and loyalty to his business partners than the freaking Square Enix suit guys have since last year.

(And no the problem isn't going multiplat, the problem is saying a game like Forspoken didn't sell because people aren't buying the ps5 when Forspoken is trash and the ps5 is selling faster than the ps4. Going muliplat is not going to save the boat if they publish another Forspoken, that's for sure).

@Lavishturtle just look at your reaction dude. You have no right to call people pathetic LOL

When this game sold 1 million in one weekend it was already a success.

External firms comparing HD2 sales with Spiderman 2 only based in ps5 disc sales (for both games) put the game as a big success.

12 millions is just fantastic, complete domination in both PSN and Steam.

And the best part? It's a very honest $40 service, smaller games are the solution.

Does this encourage sony for more day one games? Ask Ghost of Tsushima when it asks for a psn id ... That's going to be the final test.

You see SE? Is not that hard to sell games when they are cool LOL.

I think Hermen was the obvious choice because of his positions but a dual CEO is even better because he can concentrate on the studios and use of the ips and nothing else.

He wasn't directly responsible of many things that need to change like the cost of games or the service push so this is actually a good opportunity to see his vision going forward.

New CEOs, first open post about PS "secret" studio, Horizon leaving PS+ extra, Marathon 1 hd free on steam (made by fans but announced by Bungie). It really feels like the showcase is around the corner.

Seems like the perfect time to watch Indie Game the movie again and skip all the Phil Fish scenes (again).

Just in case eurogamer and resetera don't give any credits, @Zuby_Tech (on twitter) has been compiling info about this since last year (and some media sites used that info almost word by word lol). From the tweet of the first guy who said he got a job at sony to work for Jason Blundell to the updates in linkedin of various members of Deviation.

I like the move I mean, if the guy left Deviation and you only wanted to work with Deviation because of him, just recruit the guy and don't waste money in something you don't want. And they did, that represented the fall of deviation. The guy is probably going to make their "cod" so cool I guess lol. Better than buying something that's for sure.

Can't wait for the people who are going to say Sony paid the guy to leave his own studio after a couple months of formation so the studio could die and Sony get the talent ...

@Colt22 you really made me laugh with the "folding" LOL. So true bro ...

Ghost of Tsushima released in 2020, what else happened in 2020? ... maybe the beginning of a two year lock down because of a global pandemic? lol.

Sucker Punch releasing that game before 2026 would be only possible with superb efficiency and I believe they can but why people refuse to take in count the fact that these 300 million projects were delayed for the process of adaptation to working at home?

I like Horizon but between the vr game, horizon 2 and the expansion, the news of the service in the making by guerilla and the mmo by the korean dev I feel already tired of the franchise.

However, the idea of LEGO games about PS ips is something that I would like a lot so this is actually exciting news that may never happen.

Given recent development it looks like it will take some time before pc players understand the company they love to look down to actually makes pretty f*cking awesome games so Sony has to be intelligent and not lose console sales for a cursed promised land, like every Uncharted game warned us about lol.

I don't want PS to waste time in SE games (unless it's a Tactics port!) this SoP/Showcase so hopefully this stays green lol.

Let's see how much people cry when Ghost and this game ask for a psn account now that they include integration with trophies.

@8bitOG believe me bro, before February the Helldivers subreddit was a place of love lol. A small but nice community. Now is filled with cry boys, ipad kids and cod players.

Then he lost his job because he sided with the very same people who were framing AH employees as as*h*les all over reddit two months ago and told them to review bomb the game? Ironic lol.

A "You are fired" meme belongs to the situation. F that guy.

I love Helldivers but I can love it with my friends, I'm done with that reddit full of snowflakes.

I still want to see if MS will put the next COD on gamepass this year, they aren't dumb they know that's A LOT of money people will pay even if the game is trash so if a had to bet I would say they won't but after the bad pr of yesterday maybe they don't have another option. Still I think they won't lol.

@N1ghtW1ng quality asks for a lot of money tho lol. and that isn't necessary the point, actually what you say about quantity is the purpose. Xbox is partner with most indie festivals because they want to get as many indies as possible on gamepass, if you have "new games" even if they aren't excellent people will see it as a good offer. Both gamepass and ps+ have games with excellent quality but they are old so, not a lot of people see value in that because they already got the game or know the game aren't for them.

@trev666 I see. Didn't know there was 2 arkanes, good info.

Good for him, he most likely will be released but this was just terrible from the biggest software company in the world.

From the business perspective it's crazy that MS iced their Blade game in one day, first no studio and now if the director was still in now he is out. Other devs with a business history with MS like the Ori dev and the darling of the moment Larian talking about the situation, this is a big big mess. Disney and other companies won't like that. If some vocal "people" over the internet thought Sony trying to put a log-in to something they own was going to keep "third party away" they weren't ready for this.

@wiiware it didn't change the rules of anything, the need for a psn id was stated from the beginning but wasn't implemented yet, if people can't read that's on them. And it's not about "security", it's about the fact that big companies have ALL YOUR INFO and can use it as they please so their worry about crackers is useless because their info is already out there.

"They only want the accounts for company numbers so the stock rises"
Why they WOULDN'T do it? They paid the game, they are paying the servers, now owners can't get as much benefits as possible from their investment?

"I don't want to give my info, they had many security problems in the past"
Riot and Epic = China,
Tarkov = Russia,
Valve, Activision and Blizzard = USA.
Yeah ... their info has been compromised for years.

"I'm sure they want to implement PSN+ so you can't play online for free even on PC"
Greediness isn't arbitrary, companies are greedy when they know it will work because they are at the top. This isn't the console market, it's PC. Riot doesn't do it, Epic doesn't do it, Valve doesn't do it, other companies with games on mobile don't do it and they all have more players than any game from Sony so that doesn't make sense.

The only real complain are players from territories where PS is locked, for example Russia, many companies left Russia because of the war, Valve didn't so it would suck if russian players can't play the game.

What I get from all of this is:
1.- Sadly ArrowHead isn't handling this like they should, the CEO suggesting this is ok. The team in discord choosing to side with the very same people that 2 months ago were insulting AH on the internet because of the game problems over the company that paid so AH would only need to worry about 1 game in ten years.
2.- It doesn't really matter how good the game is some PC players prefer the feeling o being "above" PS . So Uncharted, Horizon, Ratchet, Returnal selling around 500,000 and only Spider-man, GOW and TLoU after the series selling more than 1 million is a better indicative of what would happen if they release at the same time on pc than Hellviders because now that they know who is the owner suddenly the game is "ruined".

So THANK YOU entitled pc players you only are giving reasons for things to stay the same lol.

Meh. They already paid so who gives a sh*t. If making an account stops you from playing a game you were "so much in love with" then you never loved the game you were only there because it was the popular game.

I was getting tired of all the bull in the Helldivers reddit so now that the numbers are going down this is the perfect purge.

@UltimateOtaku91 not that Avatar bro. Avatar the last airbender.

I don't think it's going to happen because apparently the major shareholder of Paramount wants the Skydance Media merger even when that merger is going to screw other shareholders. So Skydance has the upper hand.

If it happens cool I guess. I love Avatar and Sony has the talent to make the best Avatar game ever. This also applies to Ninja Turtles.

Playstation All Stars BR would have a new pool of characters to choose from for the second game ... LOL.

I'm guessing everything will be more expensive than buying it in real life like the legos in fortnite.

The best part of this whole situation is how Shift Up is taking it.

Fans showing love to the game buying it and with details as simple as giving it a good grade on metacritic give leverage to the developer to push back those changes (it's still unclear if this was asked by Sony).

So the players and the developer showing class in this situation. The only people b*tching about it is people who weren't going to buy the game anyway lol.

Complete domination, well deserved after 10 years of hard work from ArrowHead and obviously Sony could have easily ruin the game with predatory microtransactions like Diablo but they didn't so even they deserve a congrats here.

Now two points just for fun:
-It sold so much on PC because it is a multiplayer shooter, if the game was a new Uncharted people would have lost interest after a couple weeks (because of their bad taste, Uncharted is awesome lol).
-"This author thought Helldivers 2 was going to be a colossal flop" Yes Sammy we know you are the heel of this site lol.

Take Two is trash and no one cares, yikes. People will buy GTA6 like water and will keep watching shi*** GTA role play.

I still remember when Kerbal Space Program was one of the most successful stories of game development in Mexico and then ... TT bought the ip.

Some of the best engineers in the world man, you gotta love it.

I would use "The Sony IP" instead of "The Sony-published".

It's shorter, it's correct and it educates new fans.

Once I read a tweet from Tyler Glaiel (the current development partner of Edmund McMillen) and he said that an indie developer isn't indie if they depend on publishers because if you depend on a publisher at the first signal of trouble for them you are done.

I know it seems unfair to put the blame on a small studios with good ideas like deliver us mars but if your plan as a company or studio is to design games that you know you can't pay alone and then wait for someone to put the money then you should know this day can happen ... and it happened.

This makes me remember that one studio who made rpgs, had a little gir as the logo and their last game had pirates. When they closed they said something like "we wasted too much money trying to keep up with the industry" and the problem is why would you try to keep up with studios that can waste all that money when you DON'T have it? I know a big problem of the industry is the regular CoD player doesn't buy anything that doesn't look like GTA but if you can't compete in budget then let the ideas carry your success.

The problem is the same for all devs doesn't matter if it's sony, ms, or these guys. Bad administration specially in the management of resources is losing jobs and will keep losing jobs until big companies understand the value of smaller games and indie developers understand that there should be a limit on what they can do based in real budgets not a fictional one. Obviously big and small devs are already working on something and they aren't going to waste all that money and time to start something smaller from 0 so this situation will keep happening for the years to come.

The simple solution is MS should give a job to a lot more people so they could work on Fallout under the supervision of Bethesda and or Obsidian but being simple doesn't mean it is easy and most likely they won't do it because talent people doesn't mean the right people.

The clock is ticking, I love Jonathan Nolan work but Westworld went from being the best series on tv in season 1 and 2 to one of the worst in season 3 and 4 so Fallout has at least one more excellent season left. If they want to ride the hype is now or never.

@Ludacritz You are 100% right but what they really want is to get at least one new Fallout while the series exists and its loved. Obsidian recently said it could be on the cards after grounded, their new game of this year and outer worlds 2. So just for the sake of why they are saying this now it would be too late for the hype (maybe).

@EchoRange they aren't bugs they are features ... lol

@Americansamurai1 so no changes or real arguments? Ok.
Bye bye.

@Americansamurai1 I don't need to use google to know stuff about the studios I love, thanks.

People that complain without knowing the industry, that people should be using google LOL.

And again ...
Saudi Arabia owns 98% SNK ... where are the changes?
China owns 100% GGG Where are the changes in Path of Exile 2?

@Americansamurai1

Saudi Arabia owns 98% SNK with plans of owning 100% ... where are the changes?
China owns 100% GGG Where are the changes in Path of Exile 2?

You have to try harder because this is getting boring LOL.

@Shepherd_Tallon sony puts both. They pay development and have an internal team that works with studios that will release console exclusive games for them like SE, SU, KT, etc.

@Americansamurai1

Saudi is a minority owner of Nintendo. I haven't seen any changes in Nintendo games, have you?
Tencent is owner of Riot, Minority owner of Epic and most importantly owner of Grinding Gear Games, everything the chinese government DON'T want in games Path of Exile has it.

Pretty easy to comprehend right?

@Americansamurai1 if people eat meat or use products made in poor countries they shouldn't worry about terrible governments with lots of money to waste. Either of them buying SE would be the best option because they don't usually interfere with business, they let it happen.

@RBMango the fact that they only needed to show 3 japanese games to be "exponentially" better shows how bad the PS showcase was last year and how society loves anime (Persona 3 was pretty mid sorry).

But what will determine this year who is better? Even if Sony shows their future if xbox shows Silksong people will say xbox showcase was better LOL so I wouldn't expect for anyone to prove you wrong.

@Pranwell the bigger problem is society lol. Companies can't do ***** anymore because society (who btw moves more money than what people think because economy relies on public perception, they don't need to buy or not buy the product to make companies stock fall) is used to talk sh*t ABOUT EVERYTHING.

"Then why NIKKE ..." because as much money as they make people barely know nikke. That's why nikke fans are worried about shift up going public. Because if a big company enters and makes everything bigger society can change their games, already did.

I don't want to buy a PSVR2 (or any vr) Mr. Stark!!!

but Alien calls.

@OnlyGaming LOL that's the position you want to take based in what I said? Perfect for me.

No. What I'm saying is that the source this news used put rules to read the original report and one of those rules was the PS charts change day by day and the report was made based in that specific day. All that I already said is what happened around that day.

-So sony didn't have NEW or HYPED games that specific day to "carry the brand"? No.

-Should sea of thieves or grounded being considered as new games from MS? Those games have years out. They are only new for a new audience but it's not like MS out of no were released 7 new games in a year. Actually they have released more games for PS this year than for Xbox.

-Should Call of Duty or Overwatch being considered as successful MS games? Yes because now they own them but they didn't become successful on PS after the acquisitions. They had years being a success.

-Should any of those games being considered as games that "carry the brand"? Well ... when those games were released xbox didn't sell like crazy and GP isn't growing like crazy now that they own Activision so I would say not yet.

Now, you are talking about help but I wonder help to who exactly? We all know the 4 games broke exclusivity because MS wanted the money. Sony was doing everything to end the Activision acquisition, why not making Activision games exclusives? Maybe because Activision makes the most money on PS? Maybe ... Sure if MS makes them exclusive Sony would lose a billion in revenue but there were years where they lost more than one billion specially in the movies department, did that stop Sony from making movies? No.

So one has to wonder who exactly needs more help, the guy who is used to good and bad years because of ***** movies or the guy who is doing "everything right" and yet the most successful part of his business is selling products to "the competition". Right?

@OnlyGaming not that surprising if you think that MS released 2 games services in a span of a couple months, Hifi is already at discount, fallout had the push of the series and is on ps plus extra and the other MS games are services already popular on PS like Call of Duty or Overwatch.

Conveniently this report was before Stellar Blade, after FF and the complete dominance of Helldivers 2 lol.