@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. :/
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.
@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.
@LogicStrikesAgain I would think Tencent would be a better fit tbh. No matter how much people want to swing Sony and Fromsoftware history together as a sword. This purchases isn’t just about video games.
Kadokawa wants to keep the whole company intact, and stay a separate subsidiary under the wider Sony company. If that what company, wouldn’t the better company be the one who supports that?
Tencent also hasn’t exactly shown why they’re a bad company other than the usual “Chinese company bad”. They’ve been pretty much hands off in terms of game development, and we don’t really have to fear about games going exclusive unlike if Sony bought Fromsoftware.
@Dragon83 Isnt the point of developing studio to help studios create successful games, and point them in the right direction? The fact you’re saying “ hasn't made anything decent in years apart from a couple VR games” (which is incredibly stupidly false by the way) an example of Sony failure at developing and helping a studio?
Outside of a handful of Sony’s studios… Most of them have very much stagnated.
@kevinm360 “ Sledgehammer only had less than two years to put out Modern Warfare 3 after Vanguard”
It not even just about MW3… Sledgehammer has literally been attached to some of the worse CoDs. They did the multiplayer for the original MW3, CoD: AW, CoD:WWII, Vanguard, and MW3. That not even count all the disagreements that Sledgehammer has with every studio they work with.
It time to pull them from the frontlines.
“ Raven developed the campaign for Black Ops 6, and it’s the best campaign in years.”
They also did the campaign for Cold War. Which is why I think it time to let them develop their own title for CoD instead of just working on Black Ops.
Why are we still letting Sledgehammers games lead their own game? Maybe it time to let another studio step a develop their title. How about Raven software?
@BearsEatBeets I think the announcement from earlier this year was that they was planning to enter full production the 2nd half of 2024… They been waiting on hiring the last couple of months in order to hit their targeted team size for production.
@rjejr “ I’m guessing a lot of the older handheld games this is sort of based on were $30 or $40. So while it’s a big deal, I’d really like to see actual sales numbers and not worry about what DS games would cost in 2024 factoring in inflation.”
This game was base on Budokai Tenkaichi which was console games, not handheld games… So most likely $60. There was only ever one portable game, and that was on PSP not DS.
@nomither6 I would say that FigtherZ had a bigger splash cause of the competitive scene and Android 21. But Sparking Zero definitely saw bigger draw due to it being more casual.
@Keyblade-Dan “ Playstation gets freaking From Soft and 2 cool smaller developers”
There actually no guarantee that PlayStation get anything from this… Another similar subsidiary under Sony, Aniplex, has developed and published games… and a of lot that has barely benefited PlayStation in an anyway. It really depends on if they plan to split up the company, or just keep the company the same.
This purchase will probably not benefit PlayStation in the slightest.
Sony is doing the purchase, not PlayStation. So this is purely for anime and manga. Love of everyone complains about Microsoft but Sony in the background buying up the anime/manage industry.
But if this purchase is real… Kadokawa will probably continue to be it own thing, and those two developers continue to sit under that company with no new benefits to PlayStation gamers. Just like how Aniplex has been no benefit to PlayStation even to they develop and publish games. Aren’t they already publishing spike chunsoft new game?
I get that the Worlds game are entirely different to the other monster hunter games, but for a franchise that normally is designed for handheld… You shouldnt need a Pro console to get the best performance.
@K-Wud Will it really? The only way it bite them back. Is if Nintendo or another company all of a sudden decides to release an actual home console that can truly run modern games comparable to what we see from PlayStation or Xbox… Because at this point, Xbox is no competition; and everyone isn’t suddenly going to get up and move to PC.
RTO is just the nature of beast. Yeah it sucks that you now have to disrupt your perfect work life balance. Move back to the city. Instead of living in the middle of nowhere. Jacking up the cost of living for the people who lived there for generations, forcing them to leave town. Now you have to go back to waking up 3 hours before your shift starts cause you need to sit in heavy traffic. Have to go back to paying a baby sitter to look after your unruly spawns…. Etc
@Shad361 The issue with 3DS was that they were trying to sell a $300 handheld that was worse than the vita. By the time sales picked up after the price cut… We were already talking about the Switch. Which didn’t help since Nintendo basically pulled content from 3DS to sell the Switch.
@naruball They had Pokémon… But Pokémon at the time was only on handhelds. They wasn’t really making any games for consoles. After the game cube, they basically gave up into trying to bring the franchise to home console in a big way.
Anyone who is still play on Xbox one and PS4 are probably the people who don’t care about visual quality or frame rate. They would just appreciate being able to play the game in general
"A sense the game would come together because the team was too good to fail."
Why does this same thing always seem to come up when we're dealing with legacy studios or studios spin-off from legacy studios
There must be a curse on Bungie and any studio related to them... cause every studio spun off from them have done nothing but struggle. Firewalk, 343, Certain Affinity... etc are all struggling.
@Pompey71 I mean… I can’t probably name any here. But you can look around key selling site and find it cheap. Just like Steam can have sale, those sites can sales. But those site normal price for the Remake is usually already $34.99.
@KawakiisaFraud I don't know about Shift Up... But Koei did speak on the low games sales during it investor meeting. They had to revise its forecast for the financial year due "to recent game launches resulting in lower sales than initially expected"
But that could either be Wild Hearts or Rise of the Ronin
@Pompey71 "The reason on PC for sales being low, is they don't understand how Steam pricing works!"
Pricing isn't the main issue... If you know anything about PC, you can easily find the game vastly cheaper than the Steam price.
The main issue is that Square Enix PC ports are hot garbage filled with a lot of performance issue, and a very basic option menu.
Steam players also don't like the idea of being a second-class citizen to the Epic store. It took a year to release on Steam after the Epic Store release, and they still didn't feel like fixing the performance issues.
@CielloArc I don't think DD2 was nearly as long in development as any of these Final Fantasy games, and Capcom doesn't spend a lot of money on marketing unlike Square even tho they split the marking budget with Sony.
@jrt87 You’ll get some nerdy older folks that been messing with PC since when they came to the market, but that the outlier not the norm. Both of my parents not that much older than your father.. But both of them struggle to do the simplest of things. I don’t know what they’re going to do when I move out in a couple of weeks, and as some who IT support for residential customers. Most PC issues calls came from the 50+ age range.
“I'm mid 30s now and grew up installing stuff on DOS and having to deal with the various the wild west days of early 3D acceleration settings etc. Spent most of my 20s using Linux on my uni laptop.”
I did say a small subset of people over 30, not all 30 year olds.
I read one article about the younger generation falling behind in, don’t know it the same article as the one you seen. But falling behind was in terms of using a PC in an office environments… And that was because PC has always be an entertainment device, not a workhorse. It also doesn’t help that mid way through my school years, we switch from window based machines to chrome books and everything became google drive. So unfortunately my generation struggles trying to figure out how to fax something vs just installing Steam to play a game or set up a Minecraft server.
@NEStalgia Yeah, and some of y'all are still acting like it the DOS days. XD
My sister's coworker 8-year-old son just finished building him a customer gaming PC. Granted, I helped by providing a good site find parts. But PC gaming is not hard anymore.
@twitchtvpat Bruh, that vastly better than just an "ideal PC"... An i9 14900, 4900 gpu , 64gb ddr5 6k ram, dual 4tb nvme 2.0 hard drives... is not a PC. That is a workstation. You're not just buying that for gaming. You are buying that if your CAD rendering, 3D modeling, video edit.... etc.
This ain’t the early 2000s any more… PC aren't an hustle to setup at all. This whole “PC are too hard to use” dead back in early 2010’s. But I don’t know why we listening to PC advice from someone who haven’t had to set up PC before. He pays IT to do that.
TBH the only people who still find PC difficult are a small subset of 30s year olds and any one older than 40s. My generation and the generations coming behind mine have been using computers since before we could walk…
So good luck PlayStation. Your days are dwindling.
@Steel76 “ I don't understand why they did the same mistake, as with the PS4 Pro, and didn't use a more powerful CPU, to avoid bottlenecks like this.”
Cause console games are usually hardcoded for the CPU. Just slapping in a more powerful CPU could break compatibility which would either require developers going back in and spending a lot more time, money, and energy coding their game for the new CPU… or Sony will have make new software for Pro to emulate the CPU of the older PS5.
@CrashBandicoat “ Guys.............£1800 RTX4090's sold out. That's just the GPU, they are spending £1000+ on the rest of the PC too.”
People aren’t just buying 4090s for gaming. People are buying 4090s for WORK. That can be writes off as a business expense on tax…. Definitely not the same thing
This is either going to end up being Vive la révolution and out the Guillemots… Fitting since Ubisoft is a French company. Or this can end with the Guillemot running the entire company into the ground.
Live service is basically anything that is supposed to provide prolong user engagement... consistent patches, updates, DLC... etc are all aspects of a live service. It doesn't just have to be monetization through skins or loot boxes. It just has to be something that can keep people returning to the game outside of the normal launch window
I glad that this game failed solely for the fact it'll hopefully bring Sony and PlayStation's ego down a notch. I can't remember the last time PlayStation has had an outright failure, and for the last 2 generations... PlayStation studio have given off the impression they're untouchable.
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Re: Sony to Make PSVR2 Pads Usable on Apple Vision Pro, New Report Claims
@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.
Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Players Fed Up with Activision's 'AI Slop' Artwork
@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.
Re: Ubisoft FPS XDefiant Shutting Down, Not Accepting New Players
“ 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?
Re: Sony Still Working on PSVR2, Full Hand Tracking Tech Is On the Way
@Juga_Juga There is literally no barrier to Half Life Alyx being port over other than Valve simply don’t want it on PlayStation
Re: Ex-PlayStation Boss Thinks the Days of Consoles Are Numbered
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Re: Ex-PlayStation Boss Thinks the Days of Consoles Are Numbered
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.
Re: Gamers Are Reportedly More Interested in Watching Games Than Actually Playing Them
@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.
Re: Gamers Are Reportedly More Interested in Watching Games Than Actually Playing Them
@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.
Re: New PlayStation Handheld Looking Even More Likely as Digital Foundry Backs Up Reports
@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+
Re: New PlayStation Handheld Looking Even More Likely as Digital Foundry Backs Up Reports
@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.
Re: PlayStation Joins Social Media Shift as Bluesky Rockets in Popularity
@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
Re: Awesome-Looking, Cancelled LEGO James Bond Game Has Us Shaken and Stirred
@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
Re: Kadokawa Wants Sony's Full Commitment with Buyout of Entire Company
@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…
Re: Kadokawa Wants Sony's Full Commitment with Buyout of Entire Company
@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.
Re: Kadokawa Wants Sony's Full Commitment with Buyout of Entire Company
@LogicStrikesAgain I would think Tencent would be a better fit tbh. No matter how much people want to swing Sony and Fromsoftware history together as a sword. This purchases isn’t just about video games.
Kadokawa wants to keep the whole company intact, and stay a separate subsidiary under the wider Sony company. If that what company, wouldn’t the better company be the one who supports that?
Tencent also hasn’t exactly shown why they’re a bad company other than the usual “Chinese company bad”. They’ve been pretty much hands off in terms of game development, and we don’t really have to fear about games going exclusive unlike if Sony bought Fromsoftware.
Re: Kadokawa Wants Sony's Full Commitment with Buyout of Entire Company
@Dragon83 Isnt the point of developing studio to help studios create successful games, and point them in the right direction? The fact you’re saying “ hasn't made anything decent in years apart from a couple VR games” (which is incredibly stupidly false by the way) an example of Sony failure at developing and helping a studio?
Outside of a handful of Sony’s studios… Most of them have very much stagnated.
Re: Kadokawa Wants Sony's Full Commitment with Buyout of Entire Company
@LogicStrikesAgain “ Sony already owns around 2% of Kadokawa if i’m not mistaken. And 15% of FromSoftware.”
They own 14 which is less than what Tencent owns… and I’m sure Tencent owns more of Kadokawa as well.
Re: Kadokawa Wants Sony's Full Commitment with Buyout of Entire Company
@Dragon83 Can’t believe we’re still say this nonsense after Japan Studio closure. Where was that “Helping studios develop”.
Re: Infinity Ward's Turn in 2026, Sledgehammer Games in 2027, Says Call of Duty Insider
@kevinm360 “ Sledgehammer only had less than two years to put out Modern Warfare 3 after Vanguard”
It not even just about MW3… Sledgehammer has literally been attached to some of the worse CoDs. They did the multiplayer for the original MW3, CoD: AW, CoD:WWII, Vanguard, and MW3. That not even count all the disagreements that Sledgehammer has with every studio they work with.
It time to pull them from the frontlines.
“ Raven developed the campaign for Black Ops 6, and it’s the best campaign in years.”
They also did the campaign for Cold War. Which is why I think it time to let them develop their own title for CoD instead of just working on Black Ops.
Re: Infinity Ward's Turn in 2026, Sledgehammer Games in 2027, Says Call of Duty Insider
Why are we still letting Sledgehammers games lead their own game? Maybe it time to let another studio step a develop their title. How about Raven software?
Re: The Witcher 4 Hits Huge Dev Milestone, Enters Full Production
@BearsEatBeets I think the announcement from earlier this year was that they was planning to enter full production the 2nd half of 2024… They been waiting on hiring the last couple of months in order to hit their targeted team size for production.
Re: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Is the Most Successful Dragon Ball Game Ever in the US
@rjejr “ I’m guessing a lot of the older handheld games this is sort of based on were $30 or $40. So while it’s a big deal, I’d really like to see actual sales numbers and not worry about what DS games would cost in 2024 factoring in inflation.”
This game was base on Budokai Tenkaichi which was console games, not handheld games… So most likely $60. There was only ever one portable game, and that was on PSP not DS.
Re: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Is the Most Successful Dragon Ball Game Ever in the US
@nomither6 I would say that FigtherZ had a bigger splash cause of the competitive scene and Android 21. But Sparking Zero definitely saw bigger draw due to it being more casual.
Re: Kadokawa Confirms Sony Acquisition Interest
@Keyblade-Dan “ Playstation gets freaking From Soft and 2 cool smaller developers”
There actually no guarantee that PlayStation get anything from this… Another similar subsidiary under Sony, Aniplex, has developed and published games… and a of lot that has barely benefited PlayStation in an anyway. It really depends on if they plan to split up the company, or just keep the company the same.
Re: Sony Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Elden Ring Dev's Parent Company Kadokawa Corp
This purchase will probably not benefit PlayStation in the slightest.
Sony is doing the purchase, not PlayStation. So this is purely for anime and manga. Love of everyone complains about Microsoft but Sony in the background buying up the anime/manage industry.
But if this purchase is real… Kadokawa will probably continue to be it own thing, and those two developers continue to sit under that company with no new benefits to PlayStation gamers. Just like how Aniplex has been no benefit to PlayStation even to they develop and publish games. Aren’t they already publishing spike chunsoft new game?
Re: Sony Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Elden Ring Dev's Parent Company Kadokawa Corp
@PuppetMaster This sound like neither one of those guys ideas, and is definitely more of the parent company idea rather than SIE.
Re: PS5 Pro Brute Forces Better Performance in Monster Hunter Wilds' Beta
I get that the Worlds game are entirely different to the other monster hunter games, but for a franchise that normally is designed for handheld… You shouldnt need a Pro console to get the best performance.
Re: More People Are Playing the Original Horizon Zero Dawn Than Its Remaster on PC
@K-Wud Will it really? The only way it bite them back. Is if Nintendo or another company all of a sudden decides to release an actual home console that can truly run modern games comparable to what we see from PlayStation or Xbox… Because at this point, Xbox is no competition; and everyone isn’t suddenly going to get up and move to PC.
Re: Black Ops 6 Devs Walk Out, Activision Strike Makes the Local News
RTO is just the nature of beast. Yeah it sucks that you now have to disrupt your perfect work life balance. Move back to the city. Instead of living in the middle of nowhere. Jacking up the cost of living for the people who lived there for generations, forcing them to leave town. Now you have to go back to waking up 3 hours before your shift starts cause you need to sit in heavy traffic. Have to go back to paying a baby sitter to look after your unruly spawns…. Etc
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Web Swings to PC in January 2025
@Shad361 The issue with 3DS was that they were trying to sell a $300 handheld that was worse than the vita. By the time sales picked up after the price cut… We were already talking about the Switch. Which didn’t help since Nintendo basically pulled content from 3DS to sell the Switch.
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Web Swings to PC in January 2025
@naruball They had Pokémon… But Pokémon at the time was only on handhelds. They wasn’t really making any games for consoles. After the game cube, they basically gave up into trying to bring the franchise to home console in a big way.
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Web Swings to PC in January 2025
@Shad361 “I personally think switch 2 will decline like the nes to snes in sales.”
Nah… They have Pokémon
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Delayed on PS5 Until 14th February
“ The game will mark the return of our new releases on Steam Day 1.”
Nice! Guess I can preorder now!!!
Re: Big Tech Cuts Made to Get Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Running on PS4
Anyone who is still play on Xbox one and PS4 are probably the people who don’t care about visual quality or frame rate. They would just appreciate being able to play the game in general
Re: PS5 Pro Playable at Tokyo Game Show as Sony Announces Full Lineup
The more i see of the Pro. The more I'm tempted to purchase one
Re: Rumour: Concord Cost $400 Million, Sony Believed It Was the 'Future of PlayStation'
"A sense the game would come together because the team was too good to fail."
Why does this same thing always seem to come up when we're dealing with legacy studios or studios spin-off from legacy studios
There must be a curse on Bungie and any studio related to them... cause every studio spun off from them have done nothing but struggle. Firewalk, 343, Certain Affinity... etc are all struggling.
Re: PS5 Exclusives Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Failed to Meet Expectations
@Pompey71 I mean… I can’t probably name any here. But you can look around key selling site and find it cheap. Just like Steam can have sale, those sites can sales. But those site normal price for the Remake is usually already $34.99.
Re: God of War Ragnarok's PC Launch Trailer Reminds You It's a Classic
@mariomaster96 I never had issues getting HFW to run well on my steam deck. You just have to tinker with the settings a bit.
Re: PS5 Exclusives Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Failed to Meet Expectations
@KawakiisaFraud I don't know about Shift Up... But Koei did speak on the low games sales during it investor meeting. They had to revise its forecast for the financial year due "to recent game launches resulting in lower sales than initially expected"
But that could either be Wild Hearts or Rise of the Ronin
Re: PS5 Exclusives Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Failed to Meet Expectations
@Pompey71 "The reason on PC for sales being low, is they don't understand how Steam pricing works!"
Pricing isn't the main issue... If you know anything about PC, you can easily find the game vastly cheaper than the Steam price.
The main issue is that Square Enix PC ports are hot garbage filled with a lot of performance issue, and a very basic option menu.
Steam players also don't like the idea of being a second-class citizen to the Epic store. It took a year to release on Steam after the Epic Store release, and they still didn't feel like fixing the performance issues.
Re: God of War Ragnarok's PC Launch Trailer Reminds You It's a Classic
@mariomaster96 Ragnarök was also on PS4, so I have no doubt that this will run fine on Steam Deck or Rog Ally
Re: PS5 Exclusives Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Failed to Meet Expectations
@CielloArc I don't think DD2 was nearly as long in development as any of these Final Fantasy games, and Capcom doesn't spend a lot of money on marketing unlike Square even tho they split the marking budget with Sony.
Re: Sony Boss Says 'PCs Are Difficult to Set Up', Firm Will Focus on PS5
@jrt87 You’ll get some nerdy older folks that been messing with PC since when they came to the market, but that the outlier not the norm. Both of my parents not that much older than your father.. But both of them struggle to do the simplest of things. I don’t know what they’re going to do when I move out in a couple of weeks, and as some who IT support for residential customers. Most PC issues calls came from the 50+ age range.
“I'm mid 30s now and grew up installing stuff on DOS and having to deal with the various the wild west days of early 3D acceleration settings etc. Spent most of my 20s using Linux on my uni laptop.”
I did say a small subset of people over 30, not all 30 year olds.
I read one article about the younger generation falling behind in, don’t know it the same article as the one you seen. But falling behind was in terms of using a PC in an office environments… And that was because PC has always be an entertainment device, not a workhorse. It also doesn’t help that mid way through my school years, we switch from window based machines to chrome books and everything became google drive. So unfortunately my generation struggles trying to figure out how to fax something vs just installing Steam to play a game or set up a Minecraft server.
Re: Sony Boss Says 'PCs Are Difficult to Set Up', Firm Will Focus on PS5
@NEStalgia Yeah, and some of y'all are still acting like it the DOS days. XD
My sister's coworker 8-year-old son just finished building him a customer gaming PC. Granted, I helped by providing a good site find parts. But PC gaming is not hard anymore.
@twitchtvpat Bruh, that vastly better than just an "ideal PC"... An i9 14900, 4900 gpu , 64gb ddr5 6k ram, dual 4tb nvme 2.0 hard drives... is not a PC. That is a workstation. You're not just buying that for gaming. You are buying that if your CAD rendering, 3D modeling, video edit.... etc.
Re: Sony Boss Says 'PCs Are Difficult to Set Up', Firm Will Focus on PS5
This ain’t the early 2000s any more… PC aren't an hustle to setup at all. This whole “PC are too hard to use” dead back in early 2010’s. But I don’t know why we listening to PC advice from someone who haven’t had to set up PC before. He pays IT to do that.
TBH the only people who still find PC difficult are a small subset of 30s year olds and any one older than 40s. My generation and the generations coming behind mine have been using computers since before we could walk…
So good luck PlayStation. Your days are dwindling.
Re: PS5 Pro Probably Won't Run GTA 6 at 4K 60FPS, Tech Expert Claims
@Steel76 “ I don't understand why they did the same mistake, as with the PS4 Pro, and didn't use a more powerful CPU, to avoid bottlenecks like this.”
Cause console games are usually hardcoded for the CPU. Just slapping in a more powerful CPU could break compatibility which would either require developers going back in and spending a lot more time, money, and energy coding their game for the new CPU… or Sony will have make new software for Pro to emulate the CPU of the older PS5.
Re: PS5 Pro Announced, Costs $700 and Out in November
@CrashBandicoat “ Guys.............£1800 RTX4090's sold out. That's just the GPU, they are spending £1000+ on the rest of the PC too.”
People aren’t just buying 4090s for gaming. People are buying 4090s for WORK. That can be writes off as a business expense on tax…. Definitely not the same thing
Re: Ubisoft Investor Calls for Company to Go Private, and CEO Yves Guillemot to Be Replaced
This is either going to end up being Vive la révolution and out the Guillemots… Fitting since Ubisoft is a French company. Or this can end with the Guillemot running the entire company into the ground.
Re: Soapbox: Astro's Playroom PS5 Did Live Service and You Didn't Even Notice
Live service is basically anything that is supposed to provide prolong user engagement... consistent patches, updates, DLC... etc are all aspects of a live service. It doesn't just have to be monetization through skins or loot boxes. It just has to be something that can keep people returning to the game outside of the normal launch window
Re: PS5, PC Disaster Concord Is Now Officially Offline Indefinitely
I glad that this game failed solely for the fact it'll hopefully bring Sony and PlayStation's ego down a notch. I can't remember the last time PlayStation has had an outright failure, and for the last 2 generations... PlayStation studio have given off the impression they're untouchable.