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@Nem "the studio is now at risk of closure if they don't pick up."

This is a crazy statement to make. I don't think Naughty dog would be anywhere even remotely close to being shut down...

@Nepp67 F76 was them trying to reinvent the wheel. It was something new, and they wanted to do something completely different... Now it good cause they basically decided to just make fallout online which they should have done in the first place. Copy what they had before and just add multiplayer

@Nepp67 Cause Starfield is a new IP. Elder Scroll is an established IP that already has a copyable format to it gameplay, lore, and story... No need to reinvent the wheel. Elder Scrolls also has the benefit of a smaller scope since they only have to populate a single map.... Not multiple planets.

@somnambulance I’m with you one this! 💯

It was cool during the PS3/360, it peaked during the PS4/Xbone… Now it just annoying. It take the want out of playing games.

“Oh look! You decided to play this one game. Now it’s a stain on your profile cause you never decided to finish it or continue playing”

Got people out here making alt accounts to test run game before playing on their main

He missed out on the one platform where this would have benefited releasing one… Switch. How are you going release a game like this and not have it on Switch, but did an Xbox port. No one truly is buying a power hungry $500+ console to play games like this. This needs to be on a handheld

@AdamNovice @Fishysensei Hey, bills gotta get paid.

What is the story of this game. There are so many mix and match story beat from the entire media history of Batman…. Lol. Could this be the ultimate Batman that combines everything into one character. Batman to rule them all?

Damn I’ve been wanting to play this… but have been too busy with my new career to bother dealing with the hassle of booting up my PC to play.

@illegalmonkey Batman and mortal Kombat has more value as media IP than gaming IP.

@BearsEatBeets Yeah. The first 2 Original sin games was early access. That why they did it for BG3 cause the success they had from before

@BearsEatBeets It doesn’t seem too early… Larian likes doing early access for their games. Early access for BG3 was 3 years before the game even fully released. They showed off the CG trailers at the Stadia event in July 2019, dropped the Early access in October 2020… with the final game releasing in 2023

Warner Bro has done nothing but dig itself a massive MASSIVE grave for the last decade. Nothing but cancelation, after cancelation on show, movie, video, firing people like the voice of Beast boy just cause he was diagnosis with Parkinson's disease. All the fake tax write off. Death of Cartoon Network. Warner Bro has been nothing but complete and utter GARGABE tier company. If anything, this purchase may actually be a GOD tier life saver... If not, Warner Bro would have been dead company in 10 years anyway, and Netflix would be buying these IP on a fire sale. At least maybe we can get a few more years out of these IP...

@BrownOwl lol. The whole concept of a car dealership is anti consumer. Especially in today’s world.

@Jammer The most realistic thing anyone has said that this could be is Diablo. The animal can be explained by the Druid class, skulls can be explained by Necromancer… etc It the only game out that isn’t years away especially it probably time for new content.

@Rich33 Yeah. I saw that 👀

I may pick it up off Amazon, use my job employee discount and get another $100 off.

I wonder what good deals they’ll have for the Pro. I may be interested in buying one as I move away from PC and back to consoles as my main platform. I’ll lost all interest in PCs due to my day job, and with the Steam Frame… I can get my vr fix that way.

I’ve bought the game 4 times and still haven’t beat it… Eventually I’ll get around it

@Nepp67 The switch from the rotation mainly has to do with the fact Sledgehammer can’t make a CoD game to save their lives. They was supposed make Cold War with Raven Software, but development went no where. So treyarch was pulled in to lead development. Sledgehammer was hit the heaviest of the CoD studios with lay off, so I doubt they’ll lead a CoD title for a bit. But the rotation was due to have mainly 1 main studio + several support studio assisting with development. But Treyarch hasn’t solely developed a game since BO4. The last 3 BO games has had 2 main studios + several support studios.

@QiaraIris I know it a fifferent story, different region, different motivations, different gameplay mechanic, different time settings, and even a different adoption of the moniker "ghost"

I didn’t mean sequel in the term that Yotai is a literal sequel to Tsushima. I meant sequel as it continuation of the franchise. I just don’t know the correct term for that 🤷

An no, I haven’t played Yotai cause I’m waiting for it eventual release on PC where I can pick up for $20 and a pack of beer.

Tbh… Ghost of “” should have been a one off story. There was no need for a sequel. Sucker punch should have moved on from the franchise to something new. The improvements to gameplay could have been a patch release or something

@KingPev That 6 million is only cause they recently shipped a new expansions. It quickly falls to under 5 million when people are done with finish the expansion. It been steady declining and it in a worse state than when Microsoft started the purchase of Activision. When your company was purchased as part of deal for $70 billion... Pulling in less than 6 million is not a good look which why Blizzard has had multiple project canceled.

Yeah, other MMO would love a 6 million sub count, but their company probably aren't even remotely worth a couple million.

@DennisReynolds WoW is a sinking ship, and is Blizzard only money maker. MS probably think Blizzard efforts would be better suited fixing the experience before put effort into a console port that is not need at all.

@Fiendish-Beaver @Dragonaged Tax is based on state/local area... 10% is what you would be looking at if you live in someplace like Seattle or California. I live in Oregon which is a no sales tax state. Back home in North Carolina it would be sometime like 7% at the high end.

@wildcat_kickz You can spoof peripherals. So creating filters like that would just lead to PC players spoofing the kb/m to be a controller to be in controller lobbies. In order to avoid that... would require a lot more work on getting the anti cheat to pick up any way to spoof hardware. Better to just have a on/off

That intro... They have my attention 👀

@Dan12836666 @carlos82 Given the absolute horrible state that MCC launched on Xbox One… Not only took months to fix. But forced them rethink their entire process when porting the game to PC. They released one by one on PC and still had issues. Attempting to port MCC to PS5 would be another nightmare.

Releasing the games separately and remaking them for PS5 is a way better idea.

@DennisReynolds Given the absolute horrible state that MCC launched on Xbox One… Not only took months to fix. But forced them rethink their entire process when porting the game to PC. They released one by one on PC and still had issues. Attempting to port MCC to PS5 would be another nightmare.

Releasing the games separately and remaking them for PS5 is a way better idea.

@Deadlyblack It gonna be crazy especially when you realize a lot of cloud infrastructure has scaled up to support this. Thousands of jobs have been created. Hundreds of town have seen a massive income/economy boom solely from this.

If the rumor price of the next Xbox is true. It not surprising… They definitely plan to not sell at a loss, so they don’t really need live to recoup cost.

@Korgon This even isn’t the first time they done this… That strange apart about the whole complaining… Every time they do a Halo 1 overhaul they never give us the multiplayer. Anyone who played Halo 1 remake on 360 knows that the game just launched into the multiplayer for Reach and we just played through that.

Going off that… 343i first project was Halo 1 remake. Now Halo studios first project is Halo 1 UE5 remake… Can’t wait for another 15 years to go by and we get another relaunch of this studio, and we get Halo 1 DX Remake 3. 🤦

Wow. I always thought Sam lake was the CEO of Remedy… Crazy news.

@Nakatomi_Uk Yup. We basically control 30%+ of the global cloud infrastructure market which is a majority share..

@PuppetMaster “ In fact, without Switch version, many devs are avoiding the headache of scalling down their games and can focus more on the best optimization.”

You mean that they can continue to be lazy and not optimize? These low power devices to a lot more for game optimizations than just developing solely for high power systems. When developing for high powered systems all it does is lead developers to rely more on hardware to power through their poor coding.

A recent example is with BF6, Series S, and it lower memory… It forced the developers to actually optimize their software to improve memory management.

If more developers actually developed games for switch or lower power systems… maybe we wouldn’t stick with games want a 5090 to even be payable.

@cainhurst94 @SeaDaVie @StitchJones My comment had nothing to do with performance or a theoretical Switch 2 version out selling the PS5 version… It radical shift we’re seeing in the industry right now. It about the fact that Xbox is imploding in on itself as a brand. No one buying Xbox, people are selling their Xbox, the few who still own Xbox aren’t buying games for it, retailers are removing anything Xbox related from their shelves.

There realistically only two consoles left in the competition (PlayStation and Nintendo) as I’m sure a lot of these chart don’t offer information on PC sales since those aren’t physical.

Developers are really gonna have to start taking in serious consideration of scaling these games enough for Switch or less they’ll be stuck with just PlayStation and PC as Xbox fizzle out. We are starting to see that consideration especially from Japanese companies… It just big western companies aren’t, and funny enough those are the one dying out and selling out to companies like the Tencent and Saudi Arabia. 🤷

“Selling Best on PS5” lol. Until these companies start offering a Nintendo Switch version… It would be hard push for it to not sell best on PS5.

@get2sammyb Wasn't Gears of War available on both Xbox and PS, vs just the Xbox release of Helldivers? (Don't know if they count PC in these sales charts)

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Helldivers 2 was released for Xbox Series X|S on August 26, 2025. This chat is only covering 8/3-8/30. Which means it only counting 4 days worth of sales. It not counting September sales.

I bought a couple thing of the site before… Sad to see it go.

I would be interested in this if it meant that there was potential Switch 2 announcement. I only own the game on the App store for iPadOS. And I don't feel like digging out my iPad Pro M4 to play it...

@Runex2121 Yup. This sell out was always in the books. That why they split the company in 2023 into ea entertainment and ea sports. To make it easier to sell of parts of the company.

@Fiendish-Beaver No, but the games is long, and some of the fights can take hours.

@PuppetMaster Either way… game is old and needs a remake.

@PuppetMaster 2k and 7k is good for a game that came out long ago on top of so many people having already experienced Kiwami before on other platforms… Also, that first just week sales during a time a of couple major releases dropped. Also both Sega and RGG was extremely happy about the sales of the games on Switch, so to update an older game and try to day and date releases of it on Switch 2 has good sales potential.

@PuppetMaster None of the Yakuza games are on Switch besides the one recently announced… and Zero. Switch fan base alone is enough to warrant an update. And while they were. remastered. They was only remaster up to the standard of PS4. It is starting to look extremely out of date since we’re about go in the next generation of consoles.

@themightyant Wasn’t that back in like 2019? It been over 6 years since he had the surgeries? He should more or less be good now.

@Dodoo It may not be hard… But this is game that has been out for how many years now? Some people pick up the Switch 2 or Xbox version as their 3 or 4 copy, and plan to maybe play through it. No one want sit the slog of game so many times in a role. I wanna pick this up for Switch 2 to see how it performs and looks, but I rather not sit through the slog of the game again. After playing through it on PC and PS5. That where stuff like this come in handy.

Ah! So we’re back to comparing hair in the same game running on two different systems… Man, it wasn’t that long ago PC gamers was crapping on consoles gamers for hair looking like that in the console version of games when the PC version had TressFX and hairworks.

Companies are like spoiled children. They rather smash and break their toy rather than watching others kids having fun with them.

@AdamNovice We haven’t had a next gen Resident Evil… Wilds is only on PS5, Series, and PC. Resident Evil Village was on PS4, Xbox one, PS5, Series, Stadia, and PC… and has since come Switch, MacOS, iOS, iPadOS. If you wanted to play village, you could easily found an old VCR Xbox One in a the dumpster somewhere and play it. Same can’t be said for Wilds.

@Max_the_German “ Arrowhead should start development of Helldivers 3 (if they haven’t already).”

Nope. They already said that helldivers 3 is years away, and their next game is an entirely a self funded game with no relation ship to PlayStation.