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Since the inception of the helldiver IP. An ODST crossover always made perfect sense. Glad that it finally happening. May give me a reason to hop back in since release.

@shedX75 With the way this industry is… You can’t get comfortable. Big tech over the last decade has shown us they’re not jobs you really retire from. If you’re not consistently thinking about your next move, you’ll get left behind.

@Bionic-Spencer They’ve already have two other projects greenlit. One that they was working on along side hellblade 2, and another that recently greenlit.

@UltimateOtaku91 “ Great to see, hopefully this becomes the COD killer we need.”

Battlefield has been trying to be the CoD killer for last 15+ years… This one ain’t going to be it. We still have to hope it not broken on the release like the last couple battlefields.

@TheArt “I was looking forward to them building on their open world yet they decide to go backwards”

I glad they went backwards… Mafia 3 was absolute broken mess. Mafia: Definitive Edition wasn’t any better. Hanger13 can’t make a mafia game to save their lives… So taking a step backwards to evaluate things was a smart idea.

@Markatron84 Usually tool development cost is a one time thing that can reused for multiple games, and Sony tend to not keep their game server up for very long. At least with LBP they made their money back. They made 3 LBP, a spin off move game, a spin off kart game, ported the first game to PSP... That would crazy to make all of that for a franchise that was not a financial success.

Dreams on the other hand... probably not.

@Markatron84 Little Big Planet was their bona fide hit… Each game has sold multiple million copies, and has gained several awards. It probably help that MM isn’t a large studio.

Sack boy was basically was PlayStation adorable tiny mascot for the PS3 generation. He has now been replaced with Astro Bot.

But that probably why we’re see all these founding members leave the last couple of years after Dreams…MM next game is probably their last of it doesn’t do significantly well.

@nhSnork “ Speedstorm's own racer/crew capsules would have news for you”

That must have been something new they add…

“ Capsules were first introduced in the 7th Season.”

Ah. Yup. They completely changed their system post beta, post early access, and almost a year after free to play launch… So, my information is outdated as I dropped the game season 5-6.

Freemium games doesn’t make a game a gacha… I was strictly talking about gachas. And not just freemium purchases your character micro transactions games. Games where literally base core concepts rely solely on rolling for characters (Genshin, Honkai, Zenless, ArKnight, Wuthering Waves… etc)

Bleach: Brave Souls is recent release for switch so I didn’t release that came to the platform.

@shiningpikablu252 " Can't say Switch 2 chances got completely killed (we don't know exactly just how much more a base PS4 is holding things back than a PS4 Pro), but I'd estimate the shots just got longer..."

Grant, if any of these games was gonna come to Switch... They wasn't going to use the console/PC fork of the game. They would use the mobile/ARM version of the games. You won't port a x86 to ARM, you port ARM to ARM. Switch 2 should have no probably running any modern ARM code at max settings.

PS4 support being drop isn't surprising. PS4 is the weakest x86 version of the game, and the support just isn't there vs say supporting a lower tier ARM version since the mobile code will still be viable in the future due to low cost mobile phones still releasing on the market.

There must be something else going in the back ground other than just performance reason for Genshin to not to come the Switch. None of the major other gacha have release on the platform, and for a system that is that did as well as the Switch... that is very strange. Star Rail hasn't even released on the Switch, and that not open world, and more linear Persona turn base style game play.

@rjejr “ And it's not just the Gatcha as Switch 2 has Fortnite and Disney Speedstorm”

Those aren’t gacha games, you pay money and you get what you want in those games… you aren’t endlessly spinning a wheel in the hopes you eventually get what you want like with gacha. There are actual no gacha games on Nintendo system. There are a few games with gacha like systems like Xenoblade Chronicles 2. But actual no full gacha…

@SillyG "Couldn't they have just charged another tenner and given us a cartridge?"

Then you run into the issue of people complain about "x" games being more expensive on Switch which would anger far more people than just those who are upset about key card games. We don't need more Nintendo tax situations.

@Lowdefal “ It's more that they don't do it for AAA games, and as big as DQ is it's not a AAA game.”

The correct answer, is that they don’t do turn base for AAA aimed at the west. The modern day FF are more popular in the west than Japan. While Dragon Quest is a vastly more popular franchise in Japan vs the West.

@SeaDaVie It wasn't exactly no man's land... Nintendo was also out there with them in $80 game land.

What live service genre havent WB not touched yet? We’ve had MMO, we’ve had whatever suicide squad was, we had a moba… I guess we haven’t had a hero shooter and a 2.5D fighter

TBH… I wouldn’t mind a sequel to Gotham knights.

@themightyant “ Cyberpunk is a new IP as a video game…”
Again, it not, Cyberpunk: The Arasaka's Plot was a video game that came out in 2007.

I’m not discrediting the rest just these specificity two.

@themightyant Astro Bot and Cyberpunk aren’t new IPs… Astro bot is like the fifth overall installment in the Astro Bot series. And like 3rd actual game behind Rescue mission. Cyberpunk isn’t a new IP… It based off a TRPG, and Cyberpunk 2077 wasn’t the first time that world was introduced to video games. Cyberpunk: The Arasaka's Plot was a game that came out 07.

With Sony expanding the Horizon IP to multiple platforms… They can’t really have this game walking around on an all platforms.

@CielloArc " I don't expect to see Uncharted on Xbox or even Switch 2, but Tokkon, Stellar Blade, Lost Soul Aside, Helldivers 2, MLB and the others? Yeah, I can picture that."

Yeah. They probably don't want to see to another Death Streading where those studio run off and get a completely different publisher to publish the game on xbox... meaning they lose on that protentional revenue

@Deljo I guess… I was in like 1st or 2nd grade when the Revenge of the sith film came out, and almost 30… So I think I’m pass that still a “kid” unless your 55+ years old.

@wildcat_kickz Idk… I guess it just cause I grow up in the era where this stuff has always just been just content and not an “event”.

@Starkei Granted.. When I was a kid. There was 6 movies, a Christmas special, 2 spin off Ewok films, an Animated film, 2 animated series. And that was before Disney touch the franchise… and we had vastly more games. so it not like they improved it or made it significantly worse 🤷

@wildcat_kickz “ There's too much Star Wars in media right now.”

Is there? The last movie was in 2019… We‘ve really only had 2 Star Wars games like 5 years. And besides maybe 1 series they may release a year of 8 episodes that generally only gave a run of 40 minutes per episode. There isn’t actual a lot of Star Wars unless you chase after the novels and comics.

I’m sure the game didn’t do that bad, but once you consider the cost of Star Wars/Disney licensing… Unless the game comes out and is a massive hit… It hard to justify the cost.

@slabula Cool. And I’m also SDE at a large company, but who cares 🤷

@slabula Im not, but what floats your boat.

@Oram77 Unless there been some massive change in Bluetooth hardware with “newer” dualsense controllers. It is essentially as easy as flipping the switch… on the coding side. Sony was just not interested or didn’t have the need to implement early on in the controller lifespan cause they’re lazy when it comes to software changes.

Hold up…. if Sony was able to do this? Why wasn’t this a thing is since day 1? Between PlayStation controllers being the un-official official controller for Apple devices, PC, and PS5. Being able to easily switch between devices is a must.

@TheFakulty They had 3 possible games and n development. The Division 3, The Division Heartland, and The Division Resurgence. Heartland was can. But there still hope for The Division 3 and The Division Resurgence (mobile game) is still planned for this year. The Division 2 also just saw Battle for Brooklyn dlc released this year.

@UltimateOtaku91 “I bought the Switch 2 and it's just like playing the Switch 1 but in 4K, graphically I'm not seeing no difference in the new games, MKW looks the same as 8 Deluxe, Donkey Kong doesn't look any better than Odyssey.”

Grant, both of those games started as Switch 1 games and wasn’t built from the ground up for the Switch 2. So the jury is still out on Switch 2 games not looking much better than Switch 1. We’ll have to wait and see what Nintendo internal teams are able to achieve over the Switch 1.

@Rich33 Expect a similar level to what we got with the Dark Soul 1 and 2 remaster/enhanced version.

@twitchtvpat Granted... AMD as we know it didn't exist back then. They would have to go a similar path as Microsoft and do some type of IBM/ATI chip.

@Icey664 5 years gap is a big gap when you realize this movie won’t release be releasing until 2027, and Hunter Schafer will be pushing 30, by the 2nd, and pushing mid 30s by the 3rd films.. vs mid 20s and late 20s.

Sony wanted teens-young adult actors for these roles… not adult actors.

@Icey664 Depending on how well this movie does… They need an actor who can play Zelda for at least 3 films. Hunter Schafer was already a no go cause she too old.

Tbh… I can see why this was cancelled. Deviation Games Partnership with Sony was before their purchase of Bungie… and with the massive failure of Concord. Did they really need to takes the chance on another sci-fi when you basically own the current biggest sci-fi shooter on the market (Halo dead RIP, so Destiny basically 1st now)?

The games will eventually release on Xbox simply cause Disney/Marvel will probably want these games on the platform at some point.

@MrMayhem But that would go against what even Neil Druckmann has said more recently within the last 1-2 that they have multiple games in development… So who knows what to believe now. 🤷

Unless so you’re telling me they just have bunch of stuff sitting in pre production?

@MrMayhem Naughty Dog have multiple teams working multiple projects at a time, and they have for years. They've been working on multiple projects... They've done Uncharted 4, Lost Legacy, Working on Factions, Last of Us 2, The Last of Us Part I, the last of us part 2 remastered, and now Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. They have no issue working on multiple projects at a time

@Max_the_German Without Gamepass, Microsoft wouldn’t have bought these studios cause Xbox would have been dead mid Xbox One gen.

@PuppetMaster Yep! Developed and published by NetEase… licensed by Bungie. No mention of Sony any where. Tragic.

@AdamNovice “ must mean they are at best going to be a support studio for Forza Horizon”

Not just Forza Horizon, but also Fable… The engine that Fable is using is ForzaTech, Turn10 in house engine.

@Oram77 “ they should of stayed with Nintendo”

Y’all act like Nintendo wanted them… Nintendo didn’t want them. If they did, they would have paid the asking price. Rare wasn’t worth the money, and only Microsoft was foolish enough to pay it thinking afterwards they also got Donkey Kong. Rare was dead company before the purchase and Nintendo knew it. 🤷

@zhoont They finally gained common sense and going back to series roots. The first Ghost Recon was a first person tactical shooter. The 3rd person view for Ghost Recon 2 and up was mainly for the console versions…

@UltimateOtaku91 Turn10 also manages Forza as a whole… Brand deals, marketing, partnerships with internal and external development teams. They don’t just make Motorsport. Killing Turn10 means killing Forza as a brand, not just Motorsport. Unless Playground wants to take over all of that.

@UltimateOtaku91 Did you not read what I wrote? Turn10’s ForzaTech engine powers Horizon and Fable. It an in-house proprietary game engine that Turn10 created, develops, and manages. Closing Turn10 would mean losing the team behind that engine

@UltimateOtaku91 I don’t see Turn 10 being axed. Forza makes money, and Turn10 ForzaTech engine powers Horizon and the Fable reboot

This interview is weeks old… Was wondering when there was going to be an article made on it. Anyone who has ever followed artist and watched them talked about human or any kind of anatomy. It always tend to turn out this way 🤷

@UltimateOtaku91 They’ve been assigning with game development. It look like they had a hand in Mario RPG and Mario Wonder.

@Toot1st Didn’t you hear? This site is now an Xbox site… Everything is now an Xbox.

@MFTWrecks Because it the game and franchise 20th anniversary next year. So they are release this one this year and the new one next year.

@Toot1st Like @AdamNovice said. Just a PC in all but name… They won’t need a dedicated ‘Xbox’ port anymore. Xbox as dedicated close ecosystem platform is dead. Microsoft is finally going back to what the Xbox originally was meant to be. A DirectX box running windows. Now that consumers are more technically savvy, the cross platform experience has improved, development toolkit have greatly improved, and hardware has improved. We don’t really need the dumb down locked console ecosystem anymore… Grant. People will still cling to that experience for nostalgia sake, and rightfully so. But those people can purchase PlayStation and Nintendo for that.