AverageGamer

I haven’t picked it up yet cause I can’t justify the cost with the potential price of item looming over head… People keep talking about Game Pass, but tbh I really don’t know anyone who owns it on PC. Any game pass user I know are on consoles.

@glennthefrog I wouldn’t even call this a similar arc to Rareware… Rareware was never owned by anyone until Microsoft, and they don’t go around getting themselves in very serious legal troubles.

Microsoft letting bungie go now seem like the best decision they ever made… The studio clearly doesn’t know how to handle it self.

@Notorioustk “ So...now we have developers spending time needing create 'arachnophobia' alternate versions”

Given the developers work on Grounded. They are taking what they’ve learned from that game and using that here… I wouldn’t surprised if all their games going forward has this.

@nocdaes “ And that's before we even consider the fact Time Warner have more than enough cash flow to fund scores of naff games in search of the one golden goose.”

Time Warner has nothing to do with Warner Bros… They had nothing to do with them for years. Warner Bro is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery which is sinking ship at this point.

@LogicStrikesAgain “ They usually have a spending budget for things like acquisitions, last year it was around 11 billion”

That 11 billion set aside for 3 years, and that wasn’t just for PlayStation… and it probably lower than 11 billion now since they had made several acquisitions and investments since that information was put out. The most recent one is Gaudiy a web3/AI company…

“ history is any indication, the economy will bounce back again.”

And we don’t know when that’ll happen… it could be next month, next year, or 5 years from now. Sony has have very cautious outlook on the situation right now.

@LogicStrikesAgain “ When companies are down financially, it’s absolutely the best time to acquire them, it’s when their market cap is at their lowest.”

That makes sense to do when the economy is healthy and consumers are not struggling for groceries due to the current economy shift. You’re not thinking about how current inflation and trade war could have a negative impact on a company who primary income is currently entertainment. They’re talking about raising prices on products again, and moving production to the US which is not going to be cheap. If thing get worse and consumers have to make cut backs… The first thing to go is entertainment (games, subscriptions services, movies…etc) which is gonna affect Sony bottom line which means lays off, studios closer, selling off IPs… etc So you basically want Sony to take on Square Enix probably massive debt instead of focusing on making sure their own studios are well taken care off. Crazy.

@LogicStrikesAgain Yeah…. No. With the current economy. Throwing money at failing companies is a terrible thing to do. They’re gonna need any extra cash they have on hand to weather any incoming storm especially if things go south. Only companies like Microsoft can afford to really throw money in the fire at this moment. They’ll just lay off 6k and still have a work force twice of Sony, and triple the income.

@AgentGuapo “ A depression or Great Recession would work.”

Random TikTok video “Top 2025/26 modern depression era meal recipes”

Anyone willing to share some of their popcorn? I’ve ran out of popcorn sometime between the announcement of the Switch 2 price and doom the dark ages blank disc discourse. It been a great 2 months 🤣 🍿

@Frmknst “ How much time fo people have when they play old games with so many great constant releases”

When most people can’t afford to purchase new games with the continued raising cost of game and living… A lot of people are reverting back to playing those old games.

@TheArt “ For a brother to Rockstar under TakeTwo”

More like a cousin once removed… They aren’t directly under take two like Rockstar. They under 2K Games.

@Tomato_Goose Don’t feel sad for them… If the developers didn’t want to work on live-service games then they wouldn’t have applied… It not like studio was making AAA award winning single player games before this then all a sudden turn to making to live service.

If the developers didn’t like the idea of working on live service then apply to a different studio… No one is forcing anyone to work on these games.

Please see the return of the story campaign… I don’t care if the story, characters… or whatever is trash. The campaign always had some interesting set pieces, and that all they need to deliver for a campaign.

@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.