Boxmonkey

Player count stats come out every time a game has a rough reception.

At least some people still have sense. I don’t believe we will ever have more than a handful of successful live service games across the whole industry. They take too much time and are too repetitive for a lot of people.

With a few decent devs still making single player experiences and the huge backlog of games I’ve missed during the past 15 years I can ride out the current state of the market.

If James earl Jones’s estate had given permission for the use of his voice likeness being used I see absolutely no legitimacy to the voice actors union’s claim.

People have no divine right to a certain career or job role! Since the Industrial Revolution people have lost jobs to automation and this is an inevitability for most roles in voice acting.

Instead of scrubbing the art from the game they could do the honourable thing and pay the artist for the work provided.

Good luck convincing the general public. Studios closing left and right. These morons are tone deaf.

Gaming is cooked

Words like “best day one revenue” and “highest steam player count” are misleading word salad to disguise poor sales data.

Eg: older Ubisoft games didn’t release day one on steam and revenue has sky rocketed since the price of games has increased over the last 5 years. Lipstick on a pig comes to mind.

Have they released actual sales figures for Shadows yet?

Earnings call was released with big declines but huge success was had.

Look what happens when you make good games. Simple really

The trailer was watched over 500 million times in one day. The hype for this game is insane!! My usual preference for game length is 30-40 hours but I’m hoping this one is 200+

Keep throwing mud at that wall! Some of it might stick

It’s been 12 years! What’s another 6 months 🤷🏻‍♂️

You can pick shadows up for £50 now. Bargain considering it only came out a month or so ago

I wonder if the borrow other mechanics like monetisation 😬

@joeyflannel rotten time for western devs and publishers. Rest of the market is doing great.

This game was not on my radar at all but the reviews I’ve seen certainly make it a must buy. It’s on my list now. Made by 30 people and puts most aaa devs to shame. It’s crazy that this keeps happening

Watched it with the wife last night (who doesn’t know anything about the game) At the end of episode 2 she said “they’ve just ruined the show and Joel’s story was not finished” then went on to say she’s not really bothered about watching the rest.

Will be very interesting keeping an eye on the viewing figures going forwards.

Robot wars was my favourite tv show back in the late 90’s

Sex sells! Shame western devs have forgotten that mantra

The aesthetics really don’t work for me. The characters have zero personality (that I’ve seen so far) and the extraction shooter genre can’t really be made for the masses imo.

This one all comes down to price for me. £50 is the sweet spot imo.

Make good games > get rewarded

Live service, hero shooter, Ubisoft! What could possibly go wrong?

It really doesn’t matter imo. Graphics are fractionally better on the ps5 than they were on the ps4. PS4 power in a hand held is definitely good enough.

I’d say Sony lost their identity more than Nintendo. Actually Sony flushed their identity down the toilet for live service slop.

Also in previous gen’s Nintendo had to be innovative because they could not compete in the high spec arms race. Now they don’t need to due to advancements between generations being very minimal.

Next to no one is playing Diablo anymore. It completely died when poe 2 released.

Extraction shooters just always seem slow and boring to me. I’ve watched a fair bit of people playing them on twitch and I just can’t see the mainstream appeal for them.
Also seems a little behind the trend as the hype for these games seems to have gone

@Oram77 this!

This will sell hundreds of copies.

Obviously this is one for the collectors that have a compulsion to buy everything.

Like we needed another reason to hate Ubisoft

Complete for now

@LifeGirl very true! Great example is assassins creed shadows. It’s not really an rog because the “choices” you make don’t affect the actual game. The illusion of choice in rpgs has been a problem for a long time and I include games like fallout 4 in that list.

@MFTWrecks no you just can’t play it without creating an account. I created an account that I will delete the second I’m finished with the game.

I loaded up prince of Persia on ps5 last night and was forced to sign up to Ubisoft before I could play the game. I don’t remember the same backlash about Ubisoft as I did against Sony.

I hope it’s a complete from the ground up rebuild. Think resi style remakes! So many remakes and remasters are basically just lazy port upgrades sold as remakes.

Just paid £16 for prince of Persia ps5 version on amazon. Bargain

@DonkeyFantasy this is very common for new systems. Sony did exactly the same thing for ps5. Many many people had to buy bundles they didn’t want to get the system early.

Releasing a £400 system in 2025 isn’t expensive! Games are obviously expensive but the system isn’t.

Part 2 getting close numbers to part 1 on steam is a decent result. Especially when you take into account that part 2 sold dreadfully compared to part 1 on PlayStation.

Another example of critical scores being way way off. The general public seem to really enjoy the film. The film looks fun and I’m not the target audience. I would imagine kids would love the system of the movie.

Never heard of any of em.

275k playing on steam right now (4th) Looks like it’s still going very well. For comparison shadows is sitting at 21k (74th) and that game is much much newer.

This 19 year old remake will still be better than most the the games released today (of similar genre)

I think Sony should start making games again

Maybe the more expensive games are a Trojan horse to get people signed up to monthly subscription services (which will inevitably higher the prices once they capture enough of the market)

Either way in todays financial climate most people will be holding back from luxury purchases so lose gaming companies will go bust.

Pc gaming is cheaper and a lot easier to get torrents for games. The rise of pc and decline of consoles will be massive over the next decade.