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@HotGoomba Nah. The Quest 3s is the modern PC VR headset steal. It lighter, cheaper, wireless, and offers just about the same functionality as the Quest 3 in standalone. There nothing worth it about buying PSVR2 over a Quest system for…. Plus you still need to buy the adapter so that another $60 which at that point. You may as well had just bought a Quest 3.

@LogicStrikesAgain No. The Quest 3 does not require a PC. It a standalone device. Facebook is also not required… You really need to update your 3 years out of date information.

@LogicStrikesAgain Granted, the Quest 3 doesn’t require an extra $400 device to use it tho. Plus the Quest 3 is actually getting games and will continue to get games for a longer period due to Meta opening up the OS to third parties manufacturers.

$400 is still way too expensive… It should be max $300.Neither the hardware or game are there to make worth the investment

Interesting. It really looks like Konami is making a full come back into the gaming space. Hopefully we get a new castlevania soon.

@JohntheRaptor You’re close… NetEase original and main business is E-commerce and internet technology services. They’re the largest free email provider in China… Them being this big and involved in gaming only start a year or two pre covid when they invested a ton of money into Bungie. Before that they dealt with licensing Blizzard game in china, and had a couple online games

@rjejr Laid off is still the correct term. Fired usually only used when it the employee fault aka own performance issues or misconduct. Being laid off allows employees to retain benefits for a period of time, being fired does not allow that.

Laid off is also at the fault of employers, not employee

“ Lay-offs implies going back to your job when the work picks up again. Think someone selling peanuts at a baseball game or life guards at a beach”

That would actually be more akin to Furlough

@Jrs1 I’m guessing a lot of it comes from the fact most people who are heavily into indies don’t care about the graphical or detail aspect of the games… Only the game play aspect. Most of these games look just as good on a 7inch vs 85inch screen. You’re not gaining anything from playing Stardew on a 85inch screen. A steam deck will also play a lot of these games maxed out at full resolution…

Another big reason for the switch, portal, and deck being the best place for indies. Is cause indie games allows for a much easier pick up and play. Most of these games don’t have endless 2-5 minute loading screens, have shorter game loops… etc. You easily play these game while at work on break, at a coffee shop, or on the train, plane, or bus.

A lot of indie games are also very cozy with cozy vibes. Being able to play them curled up in bed underneath a warm blanket with a pet cuddled up next to you is bliss.

Now my personal reason for switch, portal, deck being best suit for indies is due to minimal UI and very little heat those systems put out vs my PC and monitor. Booting up windows and steam to a pain. I live in a small studio apartment, so my 4090 and 1000nit OLED monitor basically becomes a space heater for an apartment that has an ambient temperature of 76 degrees F even in the winter

@Oram77 It understandable that Gooner blade isn’t on the list… Rebirth not being there is a miss.

@Blauwe_Chimay Take a look at Indiana Jones… We don’t need the original cast for a game to be good.

@Blauwe_Chimay As much I want them to get the original cast. I think it time for some new blood when it comes to these characters. Especially since video games development takes ages now, and none of the actors are getting any younger.

@Drago201 That a little bit different since by using the music... Royalties have to be paid out to the artist, producers... etc. Sony Music Group isn't just going to eat the cost of that. Unless DC is still paying royalties to the families of the creators. There wouldn't be any charge with an internal studio using the IP.

@AndroidBango WB can't afford to completely shut down a studio. They don't own a lot of studio, so shutting down Rocksteady would basically cripple their gaming division.

@Drago201 "the license for the intellectual property"

They wouldn't(shouldn't) have to pay any licensing fee since they are own by WB.

T pose for dominance

@nomither6 The entire company has been doing terrible since early 2010s. The gaming division barely bring in any profit, and we been talking about them selling off the gaming division since 2014... The company has gone through multiple mergers to keep a float since they was nothing but a money pit for AT&T so they was spun off... They are still struggling at they cancel multiple projects for cost saving and Tax write offs. And what they did to Cartoon Network is tragic.

@nomither6 " considering how big & rich WB is"

WB or more so WBD (Warner Bros Discover) isn't exactly rich. They're basically sinking, and struggling financially.

@ThomasHL Server capacity is very expense especially if you aren't running it out of a backroom in your office. Now with major cloud provider like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure... Companies aren't running server onsite like they used to. It all handed off to a 3rd party company now.

@3Above That depends on if they can build a case against it. That could end up being a pal world vs Nintendo situation

@3Above Or it could be that now we’re back to a Japanese business man CEO in charge of SIE… They’re probably not gonna tolerate stuff like this. 🤷

@RoomWithaMoose Rare Replay is probably not happening any time soon. The amount of effort to get all those emulated games especially the 360 games working would most likely not make it worth it…

@twitchtvpat @andrewsqual No. it 100% not required for all Microsoft games on PC. It actually only required for games that have online features (Flight sim, Forza, Halo…etc)

You can play single player games without, and this how it has been since they went to Steam.

EDIT: If a game requires a 3rd party account. Steam listed it on the Steam page.

@Ashina He killed one of the dlc protagonist, Johnny Klebitz, from lost and the damned. But not the main protagonist.

@get2sammyb “ If they're opening up their platform to, say, Steam then they're creating an environment where their customers may buy the hardware and never give Microsoft another cent.”

Granted, if Xbox’s recent developer connect is anything to go off of. Microsoft will be the only publisher releasing games on a constant basis. Unless you deliberately avoid any game Microsoft publish… You will be missing out on a lot of games. You’re going to give Microsoft money at some point or another.

@Oram77 I’m sure they’re talking about the brand as a whole, not just some small team in some back room office. Move PlayStation headquarters back to Japan, swap back the X and Circle button use… etc

@wiiware A lot of it has to do with too many people in these companies being buddy buddy, ‘You scratch my back, I’ll scratch your”. Reflector Entertainment CEO worked at Bandai Europe for 10+ before leaving, founding Reflector Entertainment, before returning to be CCO for Bandai Europe and CEO of Reflector Entertainment. There is probably a lot strange inside stuff going on.

I don’t want to be that guy…. But if I was the people at this studio. I would start putting in applications for other studios. Things aren’t looking great especially if Sony needs to close a studio cause they spent too much money on acquiring Anime production companies.

RIP my favorite local studio

@Airsqueeble Better hardware, maybe? It depends on if Microsoft goes closed ecosystem or portable pc just with Xbox branding.

Don’t know why they thought they could pivot to big fancy AAA-AA style games. Should’ve just continued to work on Duelyst 🤷‍♂️

@Oram77 @DennisReynolds That cause those same people still goes out and buys the game…
My friend group talked major crap about Sword and Shield, but they still went out and bought SW&SH then bought Scarlet and Violet.

@Leonhart Silent Hill is good… But Hellblade 2 is next level, but that cause the selling point of Hellblade 2 is it audio design. You had people questioning their audio setup when it came time to play Hellblade 2

Sony games has been filled with product placement for over a decade at this point… nothing new.

@Kriandis You mean the character that they keep trying to push to the back seat of their own films, and the one they absolutely trying to replace each film? Had Kingdom of the Crystal worked and Shia didn’t face legal trouble… Mutt would had probably replaced Indiana Jones.

But Indiana Jones also worked cause we first saw Indiana Jones when Ford was 38… and the character aged along side him. Unless they plan to age up Nathan Drake with his daughter involved, an almost 60 year old actor isn’t going to work… especially long term.

@Balaam_ @Coffeeglitch Both Nathan Fillion and Mark Wahlberg are unfortunately too old to play Nathan Drake… Sony is too busy thinking about how they can turn this into a long term franchise. Give Tom Holland age and current popularity… He was the best choice if they plan to make 5, 6, or 7 of these movies.

@Member_the_game As someone who has done IT support for ISP… “Cast to TV” is not at all reliable depending on your ISP firewall settings, or if you in an apartment/dorm/housing complex… etc that doesn’t have a unique router per unit. So casting will be blocked unless you specifically request access to due so.

Given that they just announced another anime… we’ll be seeing plenty of more updates/patches.

@koffing This is probably more likely to benefit the next gen of the Vision Pro, more so the current gen…. So hopefully not a $3k HMD.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Given that Microsoft is one of multiple company that has the biggest to gain from the use of AI… It not surprising that their subsidiaries would push use of AI over paying an actual artist.

“ It's reported that as a result of the shutdown, Ubisoft San Fransisco and Ubisoft Osaka will be closed. Up to 277 people will lose their jobs, and half of the current XDefiant team will move to work on other projects”

Damn. Guess with the shut down of Ubisoft San Francisco mean there no chance of a new South Park sequel. :/

Also isn’t that studio in charge of Rocksmith?

@Juga_Juga There is literally no barrier to Half Life Alyx being port over other than Valve simply don’t want it on PlayStation

Everyone taking this as console won’t be a thing anymore when in fact that he talking about proprietary hardware…

There will still be “consoles”, but they just won’t be the branded colorful green, red, or blue boxes we have now. Just look at the Xbox and PlayStation now… there no difference between the two other than the fact one is blue and the other is green.

The Switch isn’t even actually proprietary hardware either… it off the shelf parts that can be found in the Nvidia shield that is vastly weaker as well. The only reason why you can’t play Switch games on the shield is cause Nintendo say so. And that the past we’re moving away from.

The future consoles will be nameless gray boxes that can play all games.

@AhmadSumadi Yeah. I probably have 3-4 gaming groups that I jump around to, and most of them range from ages like 22-35, and lot of them watch a lot of streamers religiously especially if they’re of the vtuber or hololive kind.

When we talk about upcoming releases, they’re number one answer “I’ll watch some one stream it”. I’m probably the only one of my friends that don’t care for streamer cause I would rather buy the game and enjoy it myself… But that only cause I still have the luxury of being able to spend a couple thousand a year on games.

@AhmadSumadi “ I see this trend with younger gamers. Maybe around the 7-15 YO age range. But older gamers have no interest in this.”

I would say that age gap is a lot wider than 7-15 YO age, probably more like up to 35… Why? Because that the age range for people who most likely grew up watch early YouTube game content and LP, and still very much do. On top of that, a lot people in this age bracket are struggling financially and can’t afford to buy game due to the rising cost of them and living expenses. So a lot still can really only enjoy gaming through watching the few wealthy enough to purchase them play them.

@rjejr “And a handheld only has to run 1080p tops, it won't have a 4k screen”

Granted, by the time this thing releases… handhelds will probably be 1440P-4k screen standard. 1080P will definitely be on the low end unless you’re aiming for 240hz+

@naruball “ No one realistically expects this. Sony is having a hard time supporting PSVR2, even ps5. Another console would be suicide.”

Which is probably why they are targeting Kadokawa. They own Spike Chunsoft which would be a good boon to development especially on the mobile/handheld side.

@Jaz007 Threads was dead before it even had a chance to live due to it being made by Meta(Facebook) and it association with Mark Zuckerberg

@sanderson72 “ LSW: The Skywalker Saga was nowhere near as much fun as LSW: The Original Trilogy on PS2/PSP or LSW: The Complete Saga on PS3.”

It’ll be hard to top the OG Lego Stars Wars games. There is just so much nostalgia connected to them that especially if you grow up with them. But there was a lot of love and care that went into that game that bought a straight tear to my after my first play through.

The best Lego games has always been the original content ones Batman 1-2-3, Supervillains, Lego Marvel Superheroes 1-2, and Lego City Undercover.

“ Perhaps they are missing the creative talents, such as Jon Burton?”

I doubt they’re missing Jon Burton considering his studio made the trash game Funko Fusion

@LogicStrikesAgain The concern of foreign takeover is more so probably from companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Netflix… etc or investor groups. Instead of companies like Tencent which already own shares… Again, I don’t see anything anywhere saying that Kadokawa want Sony specifically to acquire them. They seem fine with having anyone acquire them as long as they met their demands, but even then it doesn’t looks like no one want to meet their demands fully. Microsoft probably want just gaming, Sony wants just the anime and gaming, and who knows what Tencent wanted…

@LogicStrikesAgain “ I feel like saying Tencent would be a better fit is a bit weird, since Kadokawa is explicitly saying they dont want their company to go to foreign companies. A Japanese company would naturally understand and respect the heritage of the content more than a foreign company.”

Where did they said that? Could you provide a link? I’m going of information that this article provide. So, if they have said that… then I will retract my statement.

“Oh and why is a long history of close partnership not a big factor? I would think having a great partnership already would be very beneficial in a merger or acquisition scenario.“

Cause long partnership doesn’t always benefit mergers… That something that Microsoft and Bethesda was throwing around during their acquisition.