@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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
@Toot1st not quite the same, the games that were the reason to buy studios like Returnal for Housemarque, Spiderman for Insomniac and the remakes for Blue Point were games Sony paid for and in the case of the remakes and Spiderman games that wouldn't exist without sony. There is a big difference between that and buying Bethesda because they have the most famous western rpg or Activision for Call of Duty.
Bungie is the only company they have bought that already got important ips before the acquisition and if Destiny 2 final dlc results to be a big hit NO ONE is going to credit Sony for that lol.
Sucks when devs have to explain the ideology behind game design (and change it) because people want everything to be the same when game design also helps to tell the story of that specific world you are playing. Most garbage from the Helldivers subreddit come from that thought process.
@OldGamer999 Mario Odyssey is fun but it was and still is one of the most mid 3d Mario games out there. And the fact that Nintendo took Mario with sombrero out of the cover because of offended white people when no one in Mexico was offended by it and actually most fans liked the idea made it even worst LOL.
I don't get why you guys didn't just put their tweet lol.
In the tweet they say there will be news in the next couple months, what other thing will happen in the next couple months? Oh yeah PlayStation SoP/Showcase, so this game could actually survived development hell + generational transition + covid and have something significant to show.
Saw the japanese video just to check the physical and collectors editions announcement. SEGA really made the announcements with box renders without the PS layout even when it says that those editions will only release for PS in Japan LOL.
That weird *ss deal with xbox-chan (because xbox is otaku like the cool kids) never fails to amuse.
Boring game but it was necessary for Sony to start backing more and more indies. Sea of Stars, Dave the diver and V rising are now the product of that journey.
The animes they have paid for have been great and the animation super clean but I don't think Comedy Central wants an anime of this (or maybe they do with how popular anime is these days who knows lol)
Obsidian is a great dev and this is the only game I'm interested in from the first wave but I was watching the trophies and the main tile is messed up, they just copied the PS4 rectangular one and pasted it in the square of the PS5 one. Those details man ... come on MS.
@Nepp67 they care, for many of them and that of course includes de CEO this is the work of their lives, it isn't just another product for mass consumption. Btw being a goofball is actually part of the Helldivers concept lol.
They had a vision and they are going to defend and follow that vision. They aren't going to give in just because some people want what they got in other games (people who btw also think being toxic against the devs is ok because they were always toxic in their previous communities. Something you didn't see in the Helldivers 1 small community).
The funniest part about the weird analogy is that it's actually quite good if you see it from another angle. Just think about all the vegan recipes that try to make food look and taste like meat. If you are vegan there shouldn't be any purpose for that.
I didn't know Helldivers 2 was going to be the success it is today but I knew it was going to be as fun as it is. All my trust was with ArrowHead and they delivered big time.
Cool for number 1. If I could change anything I would put Unicorn Overlord on 3rd and send Persona 3 home. I'm sure SEGA deal to treat every Atlus game as an xbox exclusive is so good they are asking you $100 to get the full experience lol.
@nomither6 and thanks to Bungie and Destiny 2 they also have experience with services full of terrible decisions, people seem exited about the last major DLC but who knows how well it'll do, they already lost a lot of money. As a result they freed ND, Insomniac and others cancelling half the planned services and half of the survivor were delayed. So one could say there is balance now lol.
Helldivers 2 has also been top 3 most sold games on Steam for two months now.
If it wasn't that all the industry knows Helldivers is a PlayStation IP (everyone but some pc players lol, they just aren't used to how good PS games are) Tencent would have bought ArrowHead two months ago.
@breakneck yup, for the community who are very into trophies platinums are important. Videogames are entertainment and for many trophies are also entertainment, if you have limited time to play vg you better go with the whole package.
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Re: Gaming Subs Like PS Plus, Xbox Game Pass Aren't Growing At All
@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.
Re: Arkane Lyon Director Calls Out Xbox Studio Closures: 'It's a F*cking Gut Stab'
@trev666 I see. Didn't know there was 2 arkanes, good info.
Re: Arkane Lyon Director Calls Out Xbox Studio Closures: 'It's a F*cking Gut Stab'
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.
Re: Helldivers 2 PC Is Getting Review Bombed Over PSN Requirement
@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.
Re: Helldivers 2 PC Is Getting Review Bombed Over PSN Requirement
"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.
Re: Helldivers 2 PC Players Blindsided by Seemingly Sudden PSN Account Requirement
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.
Re: Sony and Apollo Reportedly Make $26 Billion All-Cash Paramount Bid
@UltimateOtaku91 not that Avatar bro. Avatar the last airbender.
Re: Sony and Apollo Reportedly Make $26 Billion All-Cash Paramount Bid
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.
Re: The New Free-to-Play Skate Is Going Big on Customisation, Licensed Brands, More
I'm guessing everything will be more expensive than buying it in real life like the legos in fortnite.
Re: Stellar Blade PS5 Dev Thanks Fans for 'Passion' Following Censorship Controversy
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.
Re: Helldivers 2 Is Already One of Sony's Best-Ever Sellers in the US
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.
Re: OlliOlli, Kerbal Space Program Teams Shut Down by GTA Publisher
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.
Re: Ghost of Tsushima Freezing Fixed, No Update Required
Some of the best engineers in the world man, you gotta love it.
Re: Mar 2024 USA Sales: Dragon's Dogma 2 Tops the Charts, Helldivers 2 Is Unstoppable
I would use "The Sony IP" instead of "The Sony-published".
It's shorter, it's correct and it educates new fans.
Re: Deliver Us Mars Dev Lays Off Team Due to Lack of Publishing Options
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.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Dev Wants to Shorten Time Between Games
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.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Dev Wants to Shorten Time Between Games
@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).
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Dev Wants to Shorten Time Between Games
@EchoRange they aren't bugs they are features ... lol
Re: Square Enix Game Cancellations Likely as Publisher Records $140 Million Loss in 'Content Disposal'
@Americansamurai1 so no changes or real arguments? Ok.
Bye bye.
Re: Square Enix Game Cancellations Likely as Publisher Records $140 Million Loss in 'Content Disposal'
@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?
Re: Square Enix Game Cancellations Likely as Publisher Records $140 Million Loss in 'Content Disposal'
@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.
Re: Square Enix Game Cancellations Likely as Publisher Records $140 Million Loss in 'Content Disposal'
@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.
Re: Square Enix Game Cancellations Likely as Publisher Records $140 Million Loss in 'Content Disposal'
@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?
Re: Square Enix Game Cancellations Likely as Publisher Records $140 Million Loss in 'Content Disposal'
@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.
Re: Xbox Confirms June Showcase, Bound to Feature Some PS5 Games
@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.
Re: Stellar Blade PS5 Fans Irate Over Alleged Censorship
@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.
Re: Alien: Rogue Incursion Confirmed for PSVR2, Out This Year
I don't want to buy a PSVR2 (or any vr) Mr. Stark!!!
but Alien calls.
Re: Microsoft 'Meeting Players Where They Are' as Xbox Games Among PS Store's Bestsellers
@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?
Re: Microsoft 'Meeting Players Where They Are' as Xbox Games Among PS Store's Bestsellers
@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.
Re: Microsoft 'Meeting Players Where They Are' as Xbox Games Among PS Store's Bestsellers
@Toot1st not quite the same, the games that were the reason to buy studios like Returnal for Housemarque, Spiderman for Insomniac and the remakes for Blue Point were games Sony paid for and in the case of the remakes and Spiderman games that wouldn't exist without sony. There is a big difference between that and buying Bethesda because they have the most famous western rpg or Activision for Call of Duty.
Bungie is the only company they have bought that already got important ips before the acquisition and if Destiny 2 final dlc results to be a big hit NO ONE is going to credit Sony for that lol.
Re: Stellar Blade Half-Second Input Delay Due to 'Game's Style of Animation', Says Director
Sucks when devs have to explain the ideology behind game design (and change it) because people want everything to be the same when game design also helps to tell the story of that specific world you are playing. Most garbage from the Helldivers subreddit come from that thought process.
Re: Video: Does Fallout 4 Look Better on PS5?
@OldGamer999 Mario Odyssey is fun but it was and still is one of the most mid 3d Mario games out there. And the fact that Nintendo took Mario with sombrero out of the cover because of offended white people when no one in Mexico was offended by it and actually most fans liked the idea made it even worst LOL.
Re: Project Awakening Still Exists, Six Years After Its Stunning PS4 Reveal
@ShogunRok welp I see, my bad lol
Re: Project Awakening Still Exists, Six Years After Its Stunning PS4 Reveal
I don't get why you guys didn't just put their tweet lol.
In the tweet they say there will be news in the next couple months, what other thing will happen in the next couple months? Oh yeah PlayStation SoP/Showcase, so this game could actually survived development hell + generational transition + covid and have something significant to show.
Re: EA Japan Exec Criticises Rating Board for Apparrent Stellar Blade Special Treatment
What is this? A censorship controversy where Sony didn't f*ck things up? We so back boys lol.
Re: Persona Dev's Metaphor: ReFantazio Releases For PS5, PS4 in October, New Gameplay Is Glorious
Saw the japanese video just to check the physical and collectors editions announcement. SEGA really made the announcements with box renders without the PS layout even when it says that those editions will only release for PS in Japan LOL.
That weird *ss deal with xbox-chan (because xbox is otaku like the cool kids) never fails to amuse.
Re: It Looks Like Kena: Bridge of Spirits Is Heading to New Platforms
Boring game but it was necessary for Sony to start backing more and more indies. Sea of Stars, Dave the diver and V rising are now the product of that journey.
Re: Sony Collaborating on SEGA's Golden Axe Animated Series
The animes they have paid for have been great and the animation super clean but I don't think Comedy Central wants an anime of this (or maybe they do with how popular anime is these days who knows lol)
Re: PS5, PS4 Ports of Xbox Survival Game Grounded Out Now
Obsidian is a great dev and this is the only game I'm interested in from the first wave but I was watching the trophies and the main tile is messed up, they just copied the PS4 rectangular one and pasted it in the square of the PS5 one. Those details man ... come on MS.
Re: Stellar Blade Is a Better Game Than NieR: Automata, Yoko Taro Reckons
Look at these gentlemen throwing flowers at each other.
Re: Transmog System 'Doesn't Make Sense' in Helldivers 2, Says CEO
@Nepp67 they care, for many of them and that of course includes de CEO this is the work of their lives, it isn't just another product for mass consumption. Btw being a goofball is actually part of the Helldivers concept lol.
Re: Transmog System 'Doesn't Make Sense' in Helldivers 2, Says CEO
A game for everyone is a game for no one, right?
They had a vision and they are going to defend and follow that vision. They aren't going to give in just because some people want what they got in other games (people who btw also think being toxic against the devs is ok because they were always toxic in their previous communities. Something you didn't see in the Helldivers 1 small community).
The funniest part about the weird analogy is that it's actually quite good if you see it from another angle. Just think about all the vegan recipes that try to make food look and taste like meat. If you are vegan there shouldn't be any purpose for that.
Re: Whoa! Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Has Sold More Than 5 Million Copies
For a game on Switch (and all other systems) looks like a low number.
Re: Feature: Push Square Readers' Top 10 PS5 Games of 2024 So Far
I didn't know Helldivers 2 was going to be the success it is today but I knew it was going to be as fun as it is. All my trust was with ArrowHead and they delivered big time.
Cool for number 1. If I could change anything I would put Unicorn Overlord on 3rd and send Persona 3 home. I'm sure SEGA deal to treat every Atlus game as an xbox exclusive is so good they are asking you $100 to get the full experience lol.
Re: PS Store Sales Charts: Helldivers 2 Dominates Once Again, Dragon's Dogma 2 in Third
@jedinite nope.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/helldivers-2/
"©2024 Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios AB. Helldivers is a registered trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC and related companies in the U.S. and other countries."
Helldivers has been a Sony ip since before 2015. That's why ArrowHead CEO dream is for Helldivers to be part of PlayStation all time franchises.
Re: PS Store Sales Charts: Helldivers 2 Dominates Once Again, Dragon's Dogma 2 in Third
@nomither6 and thanks to Bungie and Destiny 2 they also have experience with services full of terrible decisions, people seem exited about the last major DLC but who knows how well it'll do, they already lost a lot of money. As a result they freed ND, Insomniac and others cancelling half the planned services and half of the survivor were delayed. So one could say there is balance now lol.
Re: PS Store Sales Charts: Helldivers 2 Dominates Once Again, Dragon's Dogma 2 in Third
Helldivers 2 has also been top 3 most sold games on Steam for two months now.
If it wasn't that all the industry knows Helldivers is a PlayStation IP (everyone but some pc players lol, they just aren't used to how good PS games are) Tencent would have bought ArrowHead two months ago.
Re: Top-Down Phenomena Vampire Survivors Confirms Platinum Trophy on PS5, PS4
Platinums are cool. Many of us think so, devs know it, xbox also knows it lol.
Re: Top-Down Phenomena Vampire Survivors Confirms Platinum Trophy on PS5, PS4
@breakneck yup, for the community who are very into trophies platinums are important. Videogames are entertainment and for many trophies are also entertainment, if you have limited time to play vg you better go with the whole package.
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Sold Around 2 Million Copies, PS5 Player Data Suggests
What a waste of money for Sony, SE isn't worth it.