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Funny how MK11 is outselling MK1.
Though it's case of price cuts.

@ShogunRok The attempt is appreciated. 👍

Can i be cynic?
I think vanillaware is overrated and their games are not actually great.
They look great, but always devolve into excessive grinding and repetitiveness.
So... my hype levels are very lukewarm about this.

It worked, really.
But it's a mix of things. MHS2 got me into MH and Rise Sunbreak got me into the mainline series.
But the games that came before weren't to my liking. So, i wonder how things will develop.

Either way a MHS3 would be great.

Ah... no. That does not mean they are safe. The axe can fall at any moment, especially if senua 2 is a sales flop. New projects can be cancelled easily. Especially if they are just starting.

But closures are more likely at bethesda and activision.

@GagaOooLaLa Yasuke is a popular tale of the warring states period.
If it was the last thing people expected it's cause people don't know what they want.
Ignorance isn't an excuse for racism.

This does come across as racist.
Yasuke is historical. There are portrayals of him in paintings and his story has been explored many times in portrayals of the period. It was a very interesting choice to make him playable.

Don't like? Don't buy.

Ubi's fault for having waited so long to deliver japan AC and let people draw their own fantasies that would never survive contact with reality.

Hey... this one is based on the warring states. There is setting for another japan one based on the end of the shogunate.
I doubt these people even know anything about Japan's history anyways.

But seriously... Nobunaga more than 500 years ago forewent racism and recognised the talents of this man for who he was and now we have supposedly educated people 500 years later uncappable of seeing past it. Some people can be truly despicable. Seems their branch in the evolution tree devolved. I know this is lack of proper education but man... it's sad.

@Toot1st Pretty sure they care about money. Also, i don't play their games, so there is nothing to catch up on. 😂

I don't get the hate for Ascension. In terms of gameplay, it was the best in the series before the reboot. Super fun.

Well... most sales will be on Playstation anyways.
No one in their right mind will invest on an Xbox now.

Oooh... i expect we will see more of Monster hunter wilds here.
Oh and SNK presence confirms another fatal fury cotw character reveal.

They were shuttered.
That is just a CEO sweet talking shareholders.

@AverageGamer I see.

Well, as for the technomancer, yes they consider it a different story in the same world that runs in parallel as i mentioned. But those are technicalities.
It was a modern take on the world of mars war logs(both are rpg's). They talked on those same interviews how it was returning to the world of mars. That is a sequel in all but the title. Actually... where do you think technomancers first appeared? Yup. Mars war logs.

But, fair enough, if you have a different interpretation so be it. I do not agree with it though.

They finally did it.

Fat pay check. Henry will be feasting. 😂

@AverageGamer erm... what do you suppose Greedfall 2 is?
Article says same world in the past with a new combat system.

Technomancer totally is a sequel to mars war logs. Actually it's a side-quel? They are supposed to happen around the same time in different locations. There is a character that shows up on both. If i recall it's the master of the technomancer that also appears in mars war logs as a bad guy.

Either way, totally the same series and came after so it's a sequel in that sense.

Believe it when i see it.

Surely it can be worse than annihilation... right? 😆

As a bit of trivia, this is not their first sequel.
The technomancer was actually a sequel to mars: war logs.

It's funny how with less sales capcom considers DD2 a sucess and SE considers FF to not meet expectations.
I doubt production numbers were that different.

@Rhaoulos That is a ridiculous claim. PS5 is the biggest of all current gen markets. Releasing on PC and Xbox would at best have it sell double, but it's unlikely it would go anywhere near that.
5 times is laughable.

@Ainu20 I'm sure it would, but FFXVI doesn't run as poorly as you make it sound. It was perfectly fine. I beat the game and didn't notice any issues.

When a game runs poorly on switch it is clearly noticeable. It drops to 20 fps or worse.

I did pick performance mode on FF though.

@Balie3000 Doesn't matter who is there. It's the microsoft culture that runs studios down. They just don't know how to manage them.

@Ainu20 Nintendo systems really are not for you if you think FFXVI runs terribly. 😂

From my side, i don't care for it. Every persona spin-off fails to hit the same mark as the original work. It just feels like a different game. P5S had the characters but not the gameplay and the story felt like a filler retread.
Persona mainline brings it all together in a formula that spin offs just can't emulate.

So, i am all for mainline titles and remakes, but i don't care about spin-offs.

That is weird given Devil may cry sells more.
Not sure i buy too much into that.

I'm not surprised. That sort of spending raises eye brows and the top honchos will want to steal the credit.

Clearly less single player and more failed live services is the answer.
Pay these execs millions for their amazing insight and decision making! 🤣

Those are not bad numbers for eiyuden.
Actually doing quite well.

"Cutting costs" is not really the right description is it? They are "increasing profits for shareholders".

Let's not sugar-coat the real intention here.

I think they dodged a bullet. There is no way a studio like theirs would stay open under microsoft.
Even Sony has been shaky about them, but way more tolerable. Their output is very low.

I am pretty sure he knew the boat was gonna sink under Microsoft and got ahead of it.
Not that it was difficult to guess.

Sad indeed. I enjoyed the evil within series.

I suggest starting by replacing andrew wilson with android wilson.
It will save the company millions.

I don't expect much. It will take years to get out of the live service nonsense they got thrust into by incompetent management.

It's Microsoft, what did you expect?
Some people are still delusional that they are a positive influence in the market when they are the worst thing to happen to it.
This is not the end of it. MS doesn't know how to manage studios.

About as much chance as the writers gave Henry and the original books.

All hail Microsoft the saviors of gaming and competition. What would we do without them? 🤣
I would like to say this was unexpected, but it was not. Microsoft has a crappy history with managing studios.

@Neither_scene Why would i?

Sure it can. But the math doesn't work atm and is unlikely to in the future. We shall see.

@Neither_scene I would say the same brand dilution that had led Xbox sales to tank.
Releasing games on steam has a cost on console sales too. But the advantages overturn the disadvantages in that case, at least for now.
Again, not the case of the small Xbox market. Sony has nothing to gain there.
Sony made the math there too and decided it wasn't worth it huh? I can play this game too buddy.

Sony doesn't make only triple A games and they have games from previous generations that would indeed run on switch but you failed finance studies.
Not that i care. I was throwing you a bone which you squarely squandered. 😉 This is your argument at any rate, not mine. 🤷

@Neither_scene If only there were no costs and brand dilution.
Now if you had not failed math you would point out at the great opportunity on the much bigger nintendo market rather than the Xbox one. 😉

Well... it makes sense.

But, i don't really want more of the gameplay in the reboot, so we shall see what they cook up.

@Neither_scene The math is the Playstation market is way bigger than the Xbox one. So, maybe you do the math? This is not a 50/50 situation. The Xbox market collapsed. They don't even have sections for software on retailers. It's just playstation and nintendo.
This is worth it for Microsoft, but not the other way around.

I am perfectly happy with the FF games. I buy them.
The only sony thing i buy is god of war. 🤷

Not sure what to think.
I bounced off after RE6 cause first person isn't for me and i had no interest in the new cast.
RE8 3rd person came too late for me to care.

If we are back to the popular characters in 3rd person i'll go for it most probably. Otherwise i doubt it will re-ignite my interest.
I really want a code veronica remake most of all.

@0niguy why would they? The Xbox platform userbase is too small. That is why Microsoft is going to playstation.
I could see them maybe publishing on switch as well, but i don't think it's gonna happen on xbox.

Impressive numbers for unicorn overlord given it's completely silly name.

I think the ps5 install base is to blame. It's much smaller than the ps4.
People want ps5 exclusives, but it just doesn't make much commercial sense.

I don't think it has anything to do with narrative choices. Most people don't know anything about that.

If it was something it's that it's a 2/3 (we think) parter and middle of the stories are less attractive than the ending.
That is my personal reason. I have no reason to rush into rebirth cause then i will have to wait for the final part.

@ShogunRok President and CEO were each paid 72million last year.🤷

That's 144/165m right there. But i am sure the employees deserved those lay offs and those 2 do very impressive work worth all that. 😂

@Steel76 Yes, it's trendy to use the convoluted word for it.
But it's actually not. It makes sense, you just have to keep up with it.
It's not the simplest of stories but that is why so many such as me love it. There's lots of theories and speculation that goes into it cause it's such a rich story and revelations as well as dramatic moments pack a punch.

But ofc, it's not for everyone. I like complex stories myself. Reminds me of legacy of kain.

Makes sense. XVI and 7Reb are out now and the XIV expansion is out in june. They got nothing else coming, so it's KH's turn.
They said they wanted to work on getting these faster cause KH3 took so long after 2.