Boxmonkey

Activision will be under immense pressure to keep churning out a game every 12 months. Let’s be honest cod has lived off past glories for many years now. The gaming landscape is changing and people don’t have the money or want to buy the same thing every year. Hence the massive shift to AA and indie gaming.

I’d prefer her to be scared rather than girl boss considering she is a journalist not a soldier. Hopefully we aren’t running and hiding too much though because I want combat not creeping around and putting myself in lockers every 5 minutes. Difficult balance to get right

Good luck to anyone that is going to try and order the limited edition. I will definitely give it a go but 5am uk time is brutal!
I wonder how much these will be priced at on eBay next weekend

How large is the rock* legal team? I would imagine they have an iron clad case for sackings. Or certainly cleared by the legal team boxes the sackings. Let’s be honest here the UK government are useless! Nothing will come of this

Begin operation damage control. Notice how they still believe it’s a great game and it’s the customers fault for not understanding that.

The more Chinese games the better tbh. They hey crap review scores from western media but most of them are decent. They also don’t have any identity woke stuff. Makes you wonder why western devs are closing down so rapidly while Chinese ones are starting to thrive.

Dead space in the hands of fromsoft would be interesting.

The backlash against AI in gaming makes me laugh tbh. Maybe people should redirect their outrage to their government representatives instead of Twitter outrage. 50% of the people who post on here will probably lose their jobs to ai by 2030.

@WolfyTn yeah I’m the same tbh. I buy Nintendo when they release a Zelda or 3d Mario. Metroid prime could tempt me though.

@nomither6 I mean sometimes Nintendo does drop the ball but the switch 2 is selling better than initial expectations. The price is about right for 2025 unfortunately.

Nice Christmas present to receive. Surprised the switch 2 isn’t number 1 tbh considering ps5 is 5 years old now.

Netflix will 100% need to increase subscription fees very fast and very steep. Kinda like game pass are having to do after Microsoft spent billions on trying to buy the industry.

What’s the point of antitrust laws these days.

The reaction to AI in games reminds of the way people reacted when micro transactions first appeared in games. Fast forward a few years and micro transactions are in nearly every game but they aren’t micro anymore.

Futile waste of time comes to mind.

I’m amazed that they still support this game tbh.

I’d love to know the percentage of successful live service games. I imagine it’s in the single digits

@spoonard the time it will take to open new fabs to meet market demand will be 5 years. 4 new fans being built in america now and 3 planned for Europe (which were put on hold because of trumps demanded America first) expect high consumer electronics for the foreseeable future.

@nessisonett agi will be the human races greatest achievement. Also its most dangerous one.

The semiconductor industry is about to boom for the next 5-10 years. I work in the industry and the scale at which the industry will ramp up is insane.

We really need to stop explaining the use of ai. In a few years 70% of a games code will be made with ai and rightly so. The 10 year game dev cycle needs to die asap and ai will make that happen.

It’s laughable that people think the Saudis are any worse than America, Europe or the Uk.

Paywalled articles can easily be opened by getting the url of the article and opening it via archive.ph

Here’s a link to article https://archive.ph/204nr

Must be planning on using lots of AI. I guess this is the upside

Why do people care? You are fighting the inevitable and wasting time and energy worrying about automation. It’s coming and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it.

Just make this turkey free to play asap.

Incredible numbers considering the state it launched in. Great game though so very well deserved

Another reason to go pc

This is my last PlayStation.

Do they still produce new Xbox’s or are they just clearing down stock? I’d imagine it’s a complete waste of time manufacturing new ones.

Must have stock they need to clear out

Shadow dropping games doesn’t equal instant success. Oblivion was always going to sell well.

I don’t think forbidden west, ragnarok or spider man 2 sold as well as the first games on PlayStation either did they? The drop off wasn’t quite so extreme but that’s because we are starved for first party games.

Isn’t the “weaker than ps5” line just fake news? Certainly seems that way considering the base ps5 hardly ever hits 60fps in 4k.

Also this machine might be priced higher than consoles but it is aimed at the many gamers that are considering leaving closed ecosystems like PlayStation because the value proposition doesn’t really exist anymore. I don’t want to be tied to PlayStation just to play 3-4 exclusives per generation (which will come to pc at a later date)

This is what arrogance gets you. EA stepped up their game this year with battlefield and arc raiders has captured the streaming community. It’s looking more and more like a bad acquisition for Microsoft.

Game development time is going to shrink back to the good old days like ps2 and ps3. You can’t complain about crunch and 10 year dev cycles but then also moan about AI taking people’s jobs.

The desperate attempt to win people over begins.

On sale! It’s almost like going back in time to 2021

Too big to fail! Oops

Every twitch steamer was playing this on Friday. I assumed it was a paid promo type thing. Wasn’t on my radar at all this one.

@Balaam_ lovely idea but let’s be real if these mobile game become a cash cow Sony will start redirecting funds away from AAA games and into mobile slop for gen z kids with the attention span of a fish.

Arc raiders isn’t a comparable situation.

With the growth of steam and of gaming in general I can definitely see this becoming a direct competitor to PlayStation. Especially with Microsoft and Sony continuing to release games on pc.

For me personally I was leaning towards pc gaming next gen anyway! Now I have an easy under the tv box I’m 100% pre ordering and leaving PlayStation.

PlayStations advertising has always been on point. Going back to the ps1 days they blew Nintendo away with marketing.

Great achievement and well deserved.
Remember though “don’t expect this type of depth in rpg games to become the norm” quote from AAA slop factory

I feel like the only reason ps5 sells so well is because people have given up on Xbox entirely. No way it would be doing that well otherwise imo.

Mobile gaming is so tough to get right. Nintendo try the pay upfront method and that doesn’t really work. Most games are free to play with horrible pay to win progression mechanics. Anyway this isn’t for me this is for the generation that Xbox are going for.

A developer that listens to the community! Refreshing

You can’t sue people for taking inspiration. If that were possible hollow knight wouldn’t exist.

Nothing for me thanks.

Seems fair! This could damage sales in other parts of the world as customers could feel unfairly ripped off. But let’s be honest most of the public don’t keep an eye on news like this.