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@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.

@Toot1st I mean… By the time the next mortal kombat releases. There will only be like two actual real platforms (PS and PC). So in theory it would stay multi-platform since Sony already releases on PC

Man, still getting PS4 games in 2026… this is why the weaker of hardware of the Switch 2 doesn’t matter; and why it crazy that both Sony and Microsoft are talking about next gen consoles.

Bungie ain’t surviving this… There is no buying your way out of this one Bungie.

@mrbone "Steam deck is successful but its sale is still under 5 million."

That mostly come down to the the fact that you can't just go out and buy the Steam Deck... You have to buy it through Steam. So there are a lot of countries that don't even have access to purchase it, and the potential buyer base is limited. Valve is artificially limiting the sales of the Steam Deck.

@LowdefalIt After the vita people expected more from their portable handheld. It set the bar...

But it wasn't entirely down to the WiiU either. I think some of the blame could also be put on the 3DS as well. If you remember... The 3DS face heavy backlash due to it price to performance ratio especially when it costed the same as the vita

The technical gap jump that the 4ds or whatever would have to take to surpass the vita would put it pass PS3/Xbox360/WiiU level or at least on par.

The separate development cost of supporting a full HD home console but also a HD handheld would not make sense. They would basically be playing the same games.

The Switch 1 at least in handheld is basically what the next Nintendo handheld would have performed like, and it just happened that the dock performance outpaced the WiiU as well.

@Enuo "Nintendo ruined portable gaming. It used to be a simple system, big games on the T.V., small games on the handheld, it was perfect."

That was actually Sony. They had come out with their big d*** swinging with the PSP and Vita. Saying "Hey, look the PSP can play PS2 game, and the Vita can plays PS3 games. Look at our full fledge releases like Uncharted, God of War, Gravity Rush.... etc You can now play console quality games on the go"

Nintendo tried to keep up with 3DS, but was still out classed by the Vita. Then Sony decided to bail. Leaving Nintendo with the benchmark created by the Vita. How do you out do the Vita, and still reliably release game for both home and portable.

@PuppetMaster “ So you prefer 5 new studio who will make mediocre slops over 1 established studio who make good games?”

WOW!!! For someone who is going on about “Why won’t anyone think of the poor developers and industry?!?!?”. That’s very inconsiderate thing to say… Especially when one of the highest rated games of this year came not from an established studio, but a new studio that was probably 1 of those 5 studios

@PuppetMaster Do you know how many developers have closed their doors over 40+ years… Probably thousands. Yet here we are with the industry continuing to grow. Developer and studio aren’t going anywhere. How do I know.. Alex Hutchinson sold his last studio to google, left it become a senior creative director at Stadia. Then when that crash and burn. He created this studio. Every time a studio closes. 5 more are there to take it place.

@PuppetMaster “ But some gamers still defend GP as "pro consumers"

I mean… you can’t say it not pro consumer. As a consumer, our jobs isn’t really to worry about developers and the industry at large. Game pass benefits us as consumers. Are you saying Game Pass is pro business?

@Oram77 I guess it a strange trade off... The PS5 had those games... But then it basically went silent for the next 6 months till Ratchet and Clank came out. The Switch 2 will see Donkey kong, Pokemon Legends Z-A, Kirby Air Riders, Hyrule Warriors Age of imprisonment, and who know what else before the end of the year. Maybe the spin off Splatoon game? (I'm not counting Drag x Drive cause that look's stupid)

@Dodoo I'm guessing Nintendo already thought about this. Japan has two different SKU of the Switch 2... A Japanese-only model that is almost $110 cheaper, and a multi-language model that is priced higher. So that will help sale out.

@ChrisDeku I haven’t bought a game on launch day through Steam in 8+ years. Even the original The Outer World I purchased for $40 on launch. Meh. Who cares about physical. That a dying space and most of the sales will be digital like it has been for every major release for the last several years. Plus there a rumor that The Outer Worlds 2 will be a code in box… so that just gonna push people to buy digitally anyway.

To the Playstation gamer that buy this for $80. I want to give a big thank you for funding Microsoft game development so that Xbox gamers can enjoy this on Game Pass, and us PC gamers can enjoy this for vastly cheaper when we pick it on a key seller site for $60.

@UltimateOtaku91 It probably doesn’t help that the announcement for the Switch 2 and it actual release was very short. These event was planned and prepared months in advance. Nintendo was also extremely hush hush about the Switch 2. Also given the current economic climate, a lot of developers are probably waiting to see how well the Switch 2 actually sells before jumping on board.

@Neither_scene “ But it also feels like the only thing this game has taken from the 007 films is the theme tune.”

Sounds like you just want to play a carbon copy of films but in game form… and that has nothing to do with getting “old”.

@KundaliniRising333 Is it tho?

All it takes is for them to fix it in time for a summer sale… Then we’ll have article about how it fix, and it on sale… etc etc etc

@Nepp67 With the success that Capcom has been seeing the last couple of years. They probably in a better state to put fund towards project like this compared to when they was working on Deep Down.

@AgentMantis That not the case that Digital Foundry found. The PS5 and Xbox Series X has the same framerate/performance, but both the Xbox ran at a high resolution and visual quality. I think you confusing the One S and Series S.

@AgentMantis “ played Cyberpunk on the PS5 1.1 and it was no worse than most open world games on launch”

That a very questionable statement when the PS5 version was just the PS4 version, and was worse performing than the Series X and even the Series S. lol

Great news!! Hopefully everyone who was “sadden” by the lost of studio… actually supports the studio this time around.

Gotta love these indie studio… Make one big game, game sells well, makes publishing arm.

It can’t feel any more out of place than the monster cans or the ‘Ride with Norman Reedus’ Ads.

@wildcat_kickz The time it would take for the studio come up with another idea, pitch it, and get all the tools in place to start development of another game... They would have completed the Black Panther game or be ready to at least release it. There no reason to try and keep the studio around if they already didn't have another game in the pipeline. The best thing they could have done was redeploy the employees to other projects... But that would have also been costly.

And now I have no interest in the game… Went from day 1 buy to deep steam discount sale.

@MrZurkonKeelYou Knack had the benefit of being the child of Mark Cerny… Sony wasn’t going to say no to Mark Cerny. Lmao.

Man, I couldn’t imagine taking a summer internship at a game studio in this job market climate 😬

Good luck finding a job after the internship when you gotta compete against the millions of other vastly skill developer that also go laid off.

I wanted to do game development as well… But I saw how companies treated game developers back in early 2000 and 2010s. Wanted no part of that, so moved to Networking Engineering after completing college for Software Engineering

@VaultGuy415 No reason to regret being on gamepass. They never knew that the game would come out and do as well as it did. They could have easily turned down game pass and the game could have sold terribly.

Better to have that financial cushion and whatever support Microsoft offered them.

The real question is do they do a game pass release for their next game, and ask for a bigger payout from Microsoft… or rely on the support that they gained from this release.

@Brundleflies21 I’m assuming that the massive void that is modern 3rd person open world action-adventure is going to help sell copies… Plus having the former president of Rockstar North lead the development team may give enough boost.

@Balaam_ “ respects what the hardcore audience”

The hardcore audience is buying the game no matter the price, digital only… etc

If your only reason for not picking up the was due to no physical release then you didn’t want to game in the first place, and not hardcore.

It not just nostalgia… oblivion released when gaming was way less popular. There has been massive industry growth since then. Everyone who has only ever seen played skyrim like myself has spend over 20 years listening to how Oblivion was superior game. I only picked to see if lived up the massive high praise everyone and their mom had given it originally.

@AdamNovice There was no element of truth… Just cause people decided to not like the other titles they put out. Doesn’t mean there was no games.

@AdamNovice “ It's because people keep pushing this narrative that PS5 has "no games" which gets bloody tedious.”

Funny how the tables has turned with that comment. People used to throw that comment at the opposite team… Now that it has been returned to sender. Feelings are hurt.

I’m craving a new Uncharted. 😫 GIVES US A NEW UNCHARTED!!!!! 🤬🤬😤😤😡😡

@Matroska “ How many zoomers do you think have watched Star Trek TNG because of seeing Picard doing a facepalm in a meme?”

That mainly down to the fact Star Trek hasn’t done anything to stay relevant to a modern audience. All the new Star Trek content has been terrible. The isabelle and doomguy relationship is a modern meme. DOOM has least tries to stay relevant either through the multiple re-releases, reboots, or RTX remakes…

“ WoW was huge, way bigger than Doom, yet that's absolutely a Gen X and millennial thing in terms of the majority of the players”

That mainly due to the fact my generation has realized that Blizzard is a toxic, misogynistic company, and is a cancer to the entire gaming industry. WoW fan base is also completely toxic which drives away anyone new from playing games.

“ It's why series like Final Fantasy keep trying (and failing) to reinvent themselves, to attract younger audiences so when is older people stop gaming (or die...) they still have a fanbase.”

That the thing… No one really wants FF to reinvent itself. We just want a FF game. That why Dragon Quest is so far doing better between the two.

@Matroska “ But you're right, though, I can't imagine many people born in the last twenty years giving a crap about Doom. I doubt many even know what it is, especially the younger end ”

Do you spend any time on the internet minus reading video game articles on push square? Have you not seen all the meme, crossovers, culture impact that DOOM has had over the last 30 years. That was all rekindled with 2016 reboot? The isabelle and doomguy relationship was pretty big thing during COVID for younger people like me. Along with the DOOM music kicks in memes. Sure 6 years old know about GTA and FIFA since that stuff have basically transcended gaming in general. But I wouldn’t say that young people had no idea what doom is.

@Koren616 I don’t think there is much overlap between DOOM and Oblivions fans bases. So shadow dropping a couple weeks before DOOM isn’t inherently bad. As there probably far more people who has interest in playing a modern doom vs an ancient RPG.