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@Wilshiire “ This is a much better remaster than say TLOU2 as its bringing the game to a whole new audience (playstation)”

That TLOU2 remaster also bought the game to a whole new audience (PC)

@UltimateOtaku91 It probably being used as a test bed to help The Coalition integrate PlayStation development into their pipeline. This would basically be the studio first actual game on the platform, so it would be very helpful in providing good information for future game development…

@Thumper Pulling in massive income… Yet my pay raise this year was trash. :/

@PsBoxSwitchOwner @Grumblevolcano Ah. The Twitter image only showed USD.

@PaperAlien Have they announced this same price increase in other countries? If not… This probably has more with the current US economy climate than following Nintendo trend.

With them being the Xbox/Microsoft studio umbrella… They could definitely use the talent resources of the other studios to step up their gun play… With all the COD team, Halo Studio, ID, and Machine Games. Xbox has some top tier FPS talent.

@Titntin Playground game have 3 studios, one working on Forza, and 1 working on Fable with the assistance of Eidos Montreal, and 3rd one… also helping with fable.

@Godot25 “ Unless they have FH6 this year(which I doubt), which would probably kill sales of FH5, ”

I wouldn’t doubt that… It been long over due for a sequel. We were getting them every other year with Horizon 5 releasing in 2021. Had they kept to their normal schedule. We would be on 7 by now. But it also almost been 2 years since the last Forza game. The franchise is just due a new entry.

@Dan12836666 So sound like the usual UE5 problems

@Shinnok789 Given all the information that has literally dropped the last 4 months about this remaster… I doubt it’ll be half baked.

@BearsEatBeets The clone wars was probably the best bet for team diversity… Granted, I would have probably wanted something from the high republic era.

@Grumblevolcano Yeah, I remember the price increase in 2024, but i don’t remember the price increase in 2023. My memory is becoming dog water at 29 yrs old. Lmao

@MrPeanutbutterz Yeah, but not by much at this point with that price gap closing every price raise. Plus ultimate still offers better value… I don’t have to own an Xbox to benefit from Ultimate. The same cant be said about PS Plus Premium.

Really crazy that every other month Sony is raising the price of something. Has Microsoft raised really raised any prices? I know raised the price of consoles and gamepass a while back… but I don’t think they raised prices as much as Sony. Looks like expanding their game library across multiple platforms in actual benefiting

Goes from creating sifu to this…

@Oram77 TBH it not surprising that it got over nominated. This award shows love these artsy games, and HellBlade is amazing achievement in terms of art… But because of that it a not a great “game”, and it will end up being something you play once just to experience.

I just hope the studio get the chance to make a 3rd and actually make a game this time.

@GirlVersusGame I'm assuming that Nintendo figures that the camera stuff will be fine since a lot of the camera stuff they show off used AI feature for face tracking, back ground removal... etc So the is probably some kind of AI safe guard in place.

@heavyartillery56 Completely different studio and publisher… But it probably be a while till we see XCOM3 since Firaxis just released Civ7

“ But when Sony’s charged $10 for upgrades, it’s offered full-blown remasters.”

So we’re just going to completely ignore that Sony was also doing the same $10 upgrade for next generation games like God of War and GT7.. and other title?

It wasn’t always offered full-blown remasters.

Microsoft is the only who didn’t screw anyone over with Xbox One to Series X

@adge_uk The rumor for the remake rumor was that it using UE5… Not Gamebryo

@ChrisDeku A couple patch from perfection doesn’t mean it didn’t have major issues. A game can also have major issues, and not fully impact player score. Spider-Man was still very much a playable game even with flaws. Like all of Sony port even with major flaws… Elden Ring on the other hand was straight up just unplayable for a lot people.

But any PC port basically get DF seal of approval now as long as it doesn’t stutter or use Unreal Engine default settings menu cough FF7 remake cough

@ChrisDeku Spider Man 1 was not great, it had major CPU bottlenecks issues, and major progression related bugs. You clearly wasn’t there playing it on PC on Day 1. Do you even play on PC, or is your only experience with the platform he said, she said?

What Nintendo did need to prove with the Switch 2 is that 3rd party developers will still develop games for their new platforms… and that what this show accomplished.

I thought the show was very good… I never expected many first party titles to show up cause Nintendo is still dropping bangers for the Switch, and will probably continue to do so for a while since there probably still a ton of games in development. They’re not like Sony or Microsoft who needs to over promise on delivering first party cause Nintendo game don’t take 6-8 years to develop… Nintendo has released 72 first party titles on the Switch. I can count all of the PS5 first party titles on my hands.

@ChrisDeku It way more than 3… Horizon Zero Dawn had issues at launch, Spider Man 1 and 2 had issues, Last of US 1 and 2 had issues… Until Dawn also had issues.

@ButterySmooth30FPS I have no clue where they got 5gb… The og had 4gb. No way they only bump the ram by 1Gb. No actually specs list has been released. Also, you can’t compare ram spec of PC devices vs the Switch. Windows alone on handheld devices with eat about 85% of the memory.

@GnomishViking “ It seems unbelievable they could keep this entirely under wraps and then suddenly shadow drop it.”

Microsoft loves to shadow drop thing so now… so it not so far fetched.

@IronCrow86 At least with Skyrim, it was being port to different platforms… We already have Last of us on PS5

Now we're seeing a raise in development from Asia and Korea. Don't be surprise if in the next 10+ year we're talking about Western industry healing, the Japanese struggling, and the new kings are the Asian and Korean studios.

Everything that goes up must come down. The Western gaming industry hit an massive high during the late 360/PS3 gen into the early PS4/Xbox generation... Now they are suffering. It no different than the Japan industry hitting a massive high during the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox generation than suffering during the PS3/Xbox 360 gen.

@somnambulance Then we’ll have to deal with how every game on the market isn’t like GTA6… By the time that passes, we’re be talking GTA7… the cycle will repeat itself all over again.

@heavyartillery56 “ We are in 2025 not 2010. Steam is where it's at”

That even if people bought the game on steam. A lot people like buying third party keys, and the only option for that is usually Ubisoft connect key. So I wouldn’t jump to conclusions.

Veilguard was also a cheaper game.

@glennthefrog Rare Replay could work for Nintendo if they swapped the Xbox 360 Back compact games with those emulated games on Switch.

@RBMango Because Rare Replay relies on the Xbox back compact… So straight up expect it to stay off PC (unless they figure out 360 back compact) and especially PlayStation

@OldGamer999 “ The game has a lot going on but even on Pro with TAA at 60fps VRR on, there is definitely fizz when panning around on certain foliage and the bamboo and jaggies.”

Even on PC at 4k with DLSS native AA I still see the fizz when panning around foliage and bamboo. PSSR probably isn’t going to help.

@jFug @Frmknst Easier to close studio for probably some type of tax write off. Then open a new studio to get some government incentives... Plus you don't have to worry about ongoing salary bumps due to x amount employees working at x studio for x amount of years. There probably other reasons.

He also forgot to mention… That with the acquisition, Housemarque has also painted a target on it back. With everything that’s going on in the world. Studios shouldn’t be publicly announcing how they was able to increase development cost… That the problem with game development now. The acquisition should have been a way to create the same game at the same budget before being acquired.

@Keyblade-Dan Build where the type of game you’re trying to develop make sense, I guess?

@PsBoxSwitchOwner CoD doesn’t exactly scratch the itch that Rainbowsix/division/Any Tom Clancy game provides. CoD is way too arcady and not tactical. Grabbing Ghost Recon and letting the coalition work on it would be cool since Ghost Recon is just another band of brothers game like Gears.

@RoomWithaMoose “ The only worthwhile IP is Assassin's Creed, but Ubi would be stupid to sell it.”

There rumors that they may be spinning off Assassins Creed into a business with Tencent

@nhSnork “ variably related medical conditions should one even have to benefit from stuff like this or even maintain awareness thereof without relying on Figital Doundry's spec porn? ”

Could being a 20 year old professional League player count as a medical condition?

@fournexus Bandai was also a toy company at first… Hasbro failing at video games has more to do with them being a terrible company in general than them a toy company.

@Orpheus79V "Either way I'm curious/happy to see the studio doing a non Lego game in the future, it's been about 17 years since their last release.

We will probably not see any future games from them cause I'm pretty sure the only reason WB games has keep TT game open for this long was cause their lego games was making money.

@tameshiyaku @nomither6 Thank you!!! Took the words right of my month.

I love how everyone is sitting here complaining about what makes a FF game a FF game, but not even FF it self know what make a FF game… Literally the most popular and best selling FF game ever is one that mostly only still popular cause you can play dress up as a half naked cat girls and go clubbing.

If Square Enix wants to make an open world space opera with third person shooting and call it Final Fantasy 18. They are fully allowed to do it…

@McBurn It natural life cycle of game studios. Studio get established; studio create massive hit; studio gets acquired; studio gets hit by lay offs, creative talent leaves, or studio closes down; new studio(s) are born. Then the cycle repeats.

@RagnarLothbrok “ PS games had the same thing on steam at first but now sales have cratered there in comparison to how they forst sold”

And at no one else fault but Sony’s own. They burnt that PC bridge. It has nothing about the lack of curiosity. As long as Microsoft don’t burn any bridges with PlayStation players… Their games will continue to sell.

@dskatter "Suicide Squad ended the Arkhamverse beyond saving. So it’ll be interesting to see what happens if they’re allowed to do more damage."

Arkham Shadow came out and is high rated, so no... Suicide Squad did not kill the Arkhamverse. That game Rocksteady helped with, and it lays the ground work for a sequel-prequel

@dskatter Because Rocksteady is still surviving off the legacy they created with the Arkham series… The Arkham universe continues to print WB money be it tie in books, animated movie, or VR titles. Killing off Rocksteady could mean killing off that universe.

@HotGoomba Not enough people hate Meta since the Quest continues to outsell every major VR headset on the market.