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@ashipaw yup that’s the narrative in the Anglo realm. Which is why they have to ruin established IPs from yesteryear. Has been this way for a few decades. Fortunately east Asia and the rest of the world isn’t gelded. I hope to see more games from more corners of the world. As everyone has some interesting stories.

They just need to market it more to further reach out to the modern audience! I’m sure that will work haha.

@Rich33 many families that make up a large percentage of the console base aren’t going to switch to PC. PC gaming is still a niche market unlike the rest of gaming avenues. The only threat from the PC arena that could sway console gamers is the portable PCs or decks. Even so every deck owner I talked too is a typical PC guy in the know. Never have I encountered a gamer from the normal pool so to speak whom has one of those decks. To sum it up consoles will be fine. Console games going to PC is just a way for Sony to make more money while not messing up their console sells unlike Microsoft.

Nice! I'd like to see more eastern developers make games. As they don't cater to "modern audiences" for their entertainment.

@Drago201 PC isn’t a direct competitor for the console space and likely never will be. Many families aren’t going to invest in a gaming PC when there are other needs. Console games going to PC doesn’t mess up prospective console sells.

Yes the industry is changing indeed mate. Just not everyone will be so liberal with their IPs like Xbox under software rich Microsoft. Sony and Nintendo will manage their IPs better because they need people to buy into their hardware ecosystem. As if both companies don’t turn a profit on gaming they won’t survive. Nintendo is fully gaming and based in the vanity entertainment industry. Sony to some extent as well but profit margins for other Sony divisions are nothing like a software company. So PlayStation must have a reason for existing.

Maybe PC will attract more players. But I highly doubt it. There are plenty of games like this to play on PC. Or maybe the modern audience is bigger on PC than it is consoles and I'm solely mistaken haha!

Concord will still fail with its gross characters and lackluster player counts for the betas. Perhaps I'm wrong and the modern audience for concord will step up for this game!

@Savage_Joe To be fair, all data centers in the world are resource intensive. And judging by how many people support subscription services, data centers will continue to grow. As long as data centers are powered by nuclear or some other renewable energy all will be okay in the future. As normies are fully invested in this internet of everything world. So more data centers will come online. Servers are constantly on including the assets owned by your employer.

@Neither_scene PC gaming is a bit different. As for the gaming PC crowd there are many parts vendors in which all components will talk to each other in the windows environment. The consoles aren’t built like that as you know. Also the PC gaming community isn’t the console gaming crowd. So when a console game goes to the PC and not another console, it doesn’t mess up any prospective console buyer.

I understand where you are getting at with the GPUs. But they all play within the same PC environment which has standards. A PC gamer will have the same experience on which ever GPU vendor he chooses for his windows based machine. As PC games are coded to run in a windows environment and the hardware choices just help achieve whatever stats one is after. Which is all relative. The latest gimmicks the three GPU makers advertise to help brute force their way through unoptimized code doesn’t impress me. I say this as someone whom has a well built PC.

Corporate exclusivity is beneficial to Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft is a software company and wants to be everywhere. Sony and Nintendo are hardware companies and aren’t software rich. They need people to buy into their platforms physically, otherwise they will just shutter operations.

IMHO people need to get over this access for all mindset. As that only facilitates the rise of mega corporations across all industries. Gaming is a hobby and hobbies cost money.

@WhiteRabbit yea remember it vividly as I purchased a surface book at the time. And it took me forever to find a standalone version of Microsoft word. It was really buried on the store front. And even now they still seem to hid this option.

Imagine that, gamers want to play a game that is free of DEI and projection.

@Logonogo people need to stop listening to FPS DF whom only offers criticism and no real value. People should go back to enjoying games that suit their tastes. Now of course how cyberpunk launched was unacceptable but most games launch playable.

This game will fail except among the select few it appeals to.

@WhiteRabbit subscriptions are what corporations want to push on everyone at all echelons. They are even creeping into the automotive industry for hardware that is already on ones own car that they paid for lol! I detest this internet of everything push.

@breakneck agreed. As they are all existing IPs from the more creative 20th century. Indy isn’t as strong with the younger crowd as it is the older one. I wasn’t excited for Xbox when this was revealed because it’s an old IP. But I doubt Microsoft will want to make a new IP that is uncharted like. They haven’t since the PS3.

@nomither6 that’s not how IPs work mate. Sony doesn’t have to do anything. If one’s competitor wants to share their IPs on a platform then cool. Besides Sony cannot afford to prop up a service like subsidized gamepass. So they must keep an upper hand where they can.

@Neither_scene i disagree. Consoles are vanity toys for the gaming hobby. With that mindset all brands for each respective hobby should merge losing their uniqueness. No one is entitled to all IPs for every corporation. Microsoft should give DEIsney more money to keep it Xbox only.

I support this developer and wish them success with this title.

This game will fail.

@nomither6 cannot have attractive characters! Or a character creator like the Chinese game Mecha Break which is still in beta. Western developers are too busy pushing the “modern audience narrative.”

@Blofse Microsoft like all software companies has a high cash flow. Something only Sony and Nintendo can dream of ever having. Microsoft can afford subsidized gamepass. I don’t understand why people complain about price increases for subscription services. Then demand more content! As someone whom buys games and movies physically I think it’s very funny. As at the end of the day subscription services are good deals. And lastly people forgot that gaming is a hobby. Hobbies have a cost.

I’m probably in the minority but I hope the game isn’t about ciri. Good eye candy but that’s about it for me. I’d rather play as a guy for these types of games. So I hope we can get a cool mate again. Perhaps a younger lad on his ascend.

Or maybe they will do like cyberpunk and allow some type of creation. Since it’s a tough act to follow after Geralt.

@DennisReynolds the PS4 was underpowered because Sony knew people didn’t want to pay the price for an expensive system. Considering inflation the PS3 was a stout system. 600$ brand new was a lot of money over a decade ago. And the PS3 was designed as an impressive system for the time. Also Sony learned its lesson from the cell engine gamble which didn’t take off as expected. Hence the PS4 going the cheaper route in terms of SOC and chassis. I doubt we will ever receive a well built beast of a PlayStation again.

@AdamNovice to understand why college football is such a big deal in the USA. One has to visit or study abroad at a big American university. Saying the American college football atmosphere is very lively is an understatement honestly. American universities are more lively in general compared to how the rest of the world does it. Students really do take pride in their schools mascots and colors. Even big prestigious schools have this closeness about them. Hope that helps give some more context.

@GreatAuk understood. I did make a lot of assumptions there. And I projected based on my experiences. I’m not dismissing the entire west. My home country (USA) is very unhealthy. Both men and women statistically are larger than their worldly counterparts. People I know routinely will say someone is too small whom is fine in reality. So that’s my perspective. My apologies.

I’m glad that PS fans will have something exclusive to play this year. This game just isn’t for me. Just like little big planets weren’t for me. Despite being good games. From what they have shown it appears it will be better than the PS5 demo game.

@WhiteRabbit going public often changes a company for the worse. I defended the Microsoft price increases for subsidized gamepass because entities like you and are are beholden to inflation. Data centers aren’t free and upgrades cost money. Plus the deals that Microsoft makes behind the scenes for GP offerings will increase as well. As the IP owners will have increased costs and their own employees wanting more compensation. These employees are like you and I whom have life costs. So it’s all a cycle. I have no love for giant corporations. Just pointing out that there is no free lunch and modern gamers whom participate in this hobby seem to forget that.

@GeeEssEff I didn’t say it was selfish for a small company to go public. Just saying that going public often changes companies for the worse for any industry. And if you read my comments objectively on PX defending the price increase for subsidized gamepass, they are doing so because of the operating costs plus inflation. I have no love for corporations mate. People need to remember that gaming is a hobby.

The thumbnail got my attention!

@nomither6 na mate they are slim and this is properly expected in eastern countries. The english countries have the sizes that you might like haha.

@Stevemalkpus another advantage is when someone in the next generation of your family wants to play something you can. Assuming one has a working console. My nephews love to play PS3 and PS2 games. Which is no problem, my OG 60gb PS3 still works. I hang onto my consoles.

Good news. I’ll only ever buy physical media for consoles. So it can last and be passed on easily to people in my family. My family has all of our consoles since my parents got into gaming.

@get2sammyb I think they are focused on profits especially considering inflation. The gaming industry as a whole has not kept up with inflation. And let’s be real, the PS5 and series consoles aren’t bespoke or special like all console generations up to the PS3/X360. In which consoles had bespoke designs and were state of the art briefly. Since the PS4 they just released Mediocre machines for the time period. So Sony must make money on hardware for as long as possible with this price point. The COVID era increased manufacturing costs for every industry in the world. As the west has an over reliance on one region. For semiconductors it’s China and Taiwan. The Covid era saw massive delays and extreme demand for SOCs for all industries. And we are still in a post covid economy. So unlike previous generations a price cut may come much later or maybe not at all.

I hate when small companies go public. They will surely lose their appeal as time goes on. As they are beholden to shareholders whom only care about bottom lines. These shareholders do not care about anything but making more coin. And shareholders may cater to societal pressure in western countries for certain things if it becomes a problem. The previous full owner made money today at the expense of full control forever.

Fans will flock to this EA sports title which is typical EA sports for football with its animation engine. It will be successful because of the college football missing for so long and madden fans being so disappointed. And this game has a “new” factor so many will buy it.

@PuppetMaster this is the correct opinion. It’s not an historical documentary. Video games are mostly entertainment based on some real timelines or made up ones. Besides East Asian cultures aren’t sensitive like the modern west.

Sony can do what they want with their IPs. There is no right or wrong when it comes to property ownership. Only beggars feel that it isn’t right. Microsoft’s subsidized Gamepass model has spoiled so many. New games should only be available at full price so developers can make a profit so the lights can stay on and there is a healthy balance for this hobby industry. Like all hobbies in the world they don’t get cheaper nor is anyone entitled to them just because their coin isn’t right.

The main character of horizon isn’t the type of gal to cook haha. She’s a basically a bloke!

Toxic means anything in the cotton soft modern era of the west. People would consider salt water toxic. Whereas toxic in the past would be for more severe things. Like water that has nuclear runoff in it. I digress. I am truly amazed that horizon is treated as if it’s immensely popular. I enjoy it as a tech demo but the characters are weak sauce, especially all of the guys.

@breakneck DD2 is niche just like the first one. The general public’s perception is irrelevant IMO. People should just play what interests them. Ignore journalists and the general public unless you know for certain the critics have the same tastes as you.

@Mikey856 it’s a vanity entertainment company whom seeks to maximize profits. Personally I’d save the word shady for practices that make our lives more expensive for life essential needs. Like food and housing.

@SNARF gaming is a hobby. No one is entitled to a free lunch for these games. The best thing a consumer can do is Boycott with their wallet. Not saying I agree with this move. Just that these non-life essential corporations can do as they please. Especially for a vanity hobby like gaming.

At the end of the day it’s just a game. One doesn’t have to buy this “quality” of life feature. The hilarious thing to me that this feature is for the digital phone in game which saves time. A little microcosm for how people are in the real world with their smart phones.

@kailun gaming has never been about being inclusive. It started as a niche thing among the boys. In life not everyone has to be included for a hobbies and subsets within a particular hobby. Plenty of other accessible games that are mainstream.

@Nepp67 console developers just haven’t optimized their workflow for the weaker series s which has the same architecture as the series x. They need to have the mindset and workflow like PC developers. As if it was up to console developers every console by the three would be exactly the same. Even then complaints would arise about the OS for each console!

Not sure about others but I think the whole super hero thing is so overplayed. Also everything from last century is over played and over used. I get it last century had more creativity in the west. It would be nice if companies created new IPs instead of being so safe chasing what already was/is successful from the past.

@dark_knightmare2 dated is relative. I see nothing wrong with DD 2 niche open world game style. DD1 was niche and so is this one. It’s only mainstream outlets that made it bigger than what it is among average gamers. Let us reserve “dated” for things like a game engine. I.e. Statfield has a dated loading style for various digital resources. It doesn’t efficiently use modern hardware compared to other modern games.

@NEStalgia these developers win or lose either way. OP whom you responded too was saying that DD 2 has a dated design which is completely relative IMO. Then on the other hand when everyone does the same thing for specific genres people complain about that too. Modern gamers can’t be pleased at all.

@AllStarGamer I still don’t see the problem with this fragmented exclusivity for this gaming hobby. Sony paid for it and a separate entity agreed to receive extra coin. Didn’t hurt anything during those COD times.

Corporate translation: "The Xbox subsidiary of Microsoft isn't happy because Activision is officially under the corporate umbrella and no smart corporate entity gives their competition an edge over them.