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@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.

@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.