ChrisDeku

I have Gamepass and I’m not even going to play it. I just don’t enjoy straight Shooter games with nothing much going on, unless it has a really good story or RPG elements etc. Just moving from room to room shooting things, it just doesn’t do it for me.

You can tell Kojima is the kind of guy that only listens to Music Albums that have been shunned by the mainstream sites but get a 9.2 on Pitchfork Media and then hates the band when they get “too popular”

@Drago201 Nope, that's fake. The USA had lots of tariffs on countries all over the world. Both of those tariffs are fake too, those numbers only kicked in if overall quotas were exceeded and I know the Canadian one was never close to kicking in.

@trev666 please go to the Sony Investor relations page and find a single report from their history where they post humber for second party sales. You'll find none as they only list first party and third party since the beginning of PlayStation. Same for Nintendo. Please prove me wrong though, the reports are all there.

@trev666 You understand that the accounts for Sony and Nintendo are all available on the internet going back decades right? You can’t just make up stuff like no one can prove otherwise.

@trev666 That's been the definition for the entire history of the video games industry. It's only recently a bunch of guys on the internet decided that a game published by Sony is not first party unless they own the people making it.

@heavyartillery56 In what way are they overly generous? Having a trade deficit is not kindness. The whole tariff thing is a fake narrative created to make them look like the tough guys to their voters(generally poorly educated people without college degrees according to previous voting demographics)

@heavyartillery56 What does that even mean? They can negotiate with anyone they want, anytime they want. They decided to skip the negotiating and make up a fake formula to determine the “Reciprocal” Tariffs and take that as a starting point instead.

PS5 overtakes the Xbox 360 and PS3 this year. PS1 next year.

@PuppetMaster

Death Stranding 2 still used Decima Engine, which is Sony own engine created by Guerilla, and Guerilla themself involved a lot in the game development. So it's not wrong to say DS 2 as Sony 1st party game.

Nah, bro, you got it all wrong. They shouldn’t have funded the game, they shouldn’t have let them use a high end proprietary engine, they shouldn’t have assisted in the game development at all.

What they should have done is contribute to the game in no meaningful way, then wait until a year before the game is fully complete and only then should they have bought the company, offered no assistance to the development, and then put their name on the box. Now that’s a true first party game. That’s what we should be celebrating. Creating and adding value is overrated, companies just need to focus on capturing and owning the value that already exists. Why do it the hard way?

@SMJ I guess every company in the video games industry has been doing their accounts wrong for 40 years. Maybe send Sony and Nintendo an email and explain to them what first party games are based on something you read on reddit. I'm sure they'll be happy to hear from you and not at all think you're a total plonker.

@OldGamer999 Games Published by Sony are First Party, that’s how all companies classify games in their accounts. The obsession over labour ownership is a very Xbox centric recent development…

@LogicStrikesAgain Sony will have a financial presentation tomorrow covering the last financial year upto march 31st 2025 so it's possible they will touch upon HD2.

@Toot1st player retention is high. It's been in the top 5 for weekly active users on Steam in the USA every single month since launch. It has more weekly players on steam in the USA than things like Call of Duty, apex legends etc.

It's a pve game with a player base spread across all time zones so peak concurrent user count is a poor reflection of actual player counts. That metric favours pvp games with player bases concentrated in one time zone.

Capcom are one of those companies that can do no wrong in the eyes of many right now. This is despite there last 2 games being major technical messes. One of them being a full price game with lots of Micro Transactions and the other being a full priced game with fast travel MTX. On top of that they have a constant line of remakes and remasters, and make live service multiplayer games no one wants(2 different resident evil ones recently and a dino game that was full price with MTX and battle passes). They also announce games then go silent for years with the games basically being cancelled or in constant limbo. They’e also released games then added in paid game items after the reviews have passed. OnPC they use Denuvo DRM that causes major issues, and they’ve even patched in DRM into games that didn’t previously have it(resulting in people having games they paid for that they can no longer play in some cases) Finally, they pay their staff less than a McDonald’s worker in the UK.

I like Capcom though, just playing Devil’s Advocate. It’s so easy to be negative, isn’t it?

@SMJ There’s nothing xenophobic about what I said, as it’s basically an established fact that Japan is the most Insular society in the advanced world. Their open-mindedness to foreign things is the lowest of any advanced society by a considerable margin. This has been heavily studied there are lots of academic papers on such things, especially in fields like Economics where the Japanese economy is studied in depth as an example of a slowly failing advanced economy since the 1990’s.

In the 29 years of the Japan Game awards only one game has ever won the game of the year that wasn’t developed in Japan, and that was Ghost of Tsushima(a game entirely set in and about about Japan) and it had to share the award as a co-winner(with Monster Hunter: Rise).

He probably exaggerated a bit but at the end of the day Moon Studios is an 80+ man studio that makes £35 AA games. If this game is not a big hit then people are almost certainly losing their jobs and I wouldn’t be surprised if the studio died. Simply making good games is not enough anymore.

Of course, we’re now in the age where people actively hope for studios closing and thousands of people losing their jobs…

I watched the first season Half-heartedly but was actually quite impressed by the end.

Is this the worst game, on a technical level, of this generation? These guys are doing MGS Triangle too…

The maths always supported this as almost every Rockstar studio worked on RDR2.

I assume it was in pre-production with the team at Rockstar North working on prototyping and proof of concept stuff.

@InsertUsername Firstly, I guess it’s possible that everything in the world is a lie, but generally we accept that released sales figures and charts are accurate. If not then feel free to live in a world where everything is a lie and you get to choose your own truth.

Secondly, that article is using the exact same viewership figures as I am. They just interpreted them incorrectly. They said that the fall from the first episode to the second episode was a result of the death of an important character. Said character died in the second episode, not the first. That’s a fact. The viewer numbers they used in that article acknowledge that the numbers increased from episode 2 to 3. That’s another fact. More numbers have been released since then and Episode 4 has higher numbers than both episode 2 and 3. I.e. every episode released since the death has had increasing viewership than the previous episode. That’s a fact.

I’m sure you won’t like this reality and will create your “Alternative facts” in your own head though. Why be smart and educated when you can just pretend to be, eh?

@mikeawmids The viewing figures are publicly available. You just made yourself look dumb. Try analysing information rather than having an article tell you reality.

Joel died in episode 2. Episode 3 had more people watching than episode 2. Episode 4 had more people watching than episode 3. Those are actual facts.

@Ambassador_Kong Yes, that article is fake. He died in the second Episode, not the first. The 3rd and 4th episode both had viewership increases. Only the first to second episode had a decrease(it’s not unusual for the first and last episode of a season to have the highest figures).

@spaceghost It’s simple logic. If these people were viewers and they now think the show is a zero then the viewership numbers would be falling. Every episode this series is higher than the viewership at the start of Season one. The last 2 episodes increased.

Trying to paint this as a legitimate representation of the shows viewership is ludicrous as the shows being watched by more people than ever while apparently 50% of the people reviewing it think it’s a 0/10.

@spaceghost almost no one reviewing the show is a part of the actual audience. That’s why audience figures have increased for the last 2 episodes and are still ahead of where the show started. So the idea that the audience is the one not enjoying the show is completely bogus. It’s also an 8.7 on IMDB which has 650k reviews so can’t be skewed by a few angry incels with multiple accounts.

I see all the usual suspects with Chud-leaning tendencies out with the bad faith arguments about how it’s not review bombing.

I clicked on the users reviews. First one: “Woke Trash” Second one “No one wants politics in games”. 4th one: “ It's woke garbage, multiculturalism, homosexuality”

Sounds like a bunch of reasonable well rounded opinions explaining clearly and concisely why they thought the show deserved a 0/10.

@Kanji-Tatsumi Go watch some porn, bro. It’s available 24/7 at the tap of a few buttons. In the 90’s you had to stay up and watch the late night Channel 5 “Erotic Thrillers” on a Friday Night.

If you’ve never played it and are wondering if it’s good: it’s not.

HBO comedian Dana Gould fuels GEX with over 300 hilarious one-liners and sound effects.

This press release should probably clue you in right away.

If polls on video game websites were reflective of reality then pretty much every game would be a 10 hour linear game with no multiplayer or live service aspect that sold 90% of it’s copies in physical, cost $40 and had a AA budget.

@Deljo I’m pretty sure Xbox games are less than 10% of sales on the platform, and 30% of all that revenue goes to Sony for doing basically nothing. Also, what difference does it actually make to you as a consumer?

@UltimateOtaku91 the 500m is active users so it includes candy crush 😂

@Vectrex The Max Payne games are getting a full remake Double pack, and it will be out before Control 2.

Control was €30m and they’ve said previously the budget is bigger than that. AWII got 100% funded by Epic but all those gravy trains have dried up unfortunately. Now’s the time, all across the industry, for looking down the back of the couch to try to scrape together a few extra pennies.

There’s still a ton of money to be made in the industry but I’d guess the investor’s are spooked because they have little ability to discern a hit from a massive flop. Also, the entire landscape of the industry can change in between development starting and the game being released.

@Drago201 Yeah, I believe entirety of rockstar's 10+ studios are working on this game. That's a cost of over $200m a year for core studio running costs. Can't imagine how much this game costs to make.

The idea that just anyone should be able to replicate this is pretty ignorant.

@LogicStrikesAgain

Yes, lots of those 12 live service games got cancelled by Sony, but that is par for the course in game Development.

People quickly forget that Sony have always been quick to cut things that aren’t working and quickly moving onto the next project, and to big success in the past. Santa Monica was 18 months into a Sci-Fi new IP when it got cancelled(and key personnel let go) and then they moved onto God of War(2018). Sucker Punch had a working playable version of a Steam Punk adventure game(it’s called Prophecy and there is a leaked video of it) before deciding to move onto Ghost of Tsushima.

@joeyflannel

Helldivers 2 is not a game developed by a 1st party studio.

It was funded by Sony 100%, and Sony own the IP. Additionally Sony refer to it as a First Party game, so your distinction here is irrelevant.

@Tomato_Goose And what about all the single player game studios that got shut down in their last few years, all the ones formed and shut down before they even release a game because of zero funding? Why pretend it’s some weird live service thing?

Then most striking part of this reveal is that Destiny 2 is the highest grossing game on Steam today just because of these pre-orders going live. That’s kinda insane for a dead game.

Classes in Elden Ring are also literally irrelevant…

This was rumoured a long time as a trilogy remaster, right? Seems like a remaster of a single 10 hour campaign game from 20 years ago is a bit on the light side as a complete product. The max Payne games getting a full remake treatment are even coming as a 2in1.

I’m not surprised about the situation. They’ve taken a long time to not really do very much. Taken some gambles on phone gaming that I doubt worked out. For core games it’s only really their second and Rain Code did not do particularly well(I haven’t even bought it yet, although I will buy it next time it’s on sale, best I can do I’m afraid).

On the plus side their new game has a peak CCU on Steam of around 20x Rain Code+.

@awp69 If PC Gamepass made 45% more and the total Content and Services Division only made 8% more, then what does that mean? Either PC gamepass is tiny, or PC gamepass grew because people moved out of Gamepass ultimate to PC Game Pass.

If 3m people changed their sub from GPU to PC Gamepass then that’s a growth of PC Gamepass but it’s just a static number of overall Gamepass subscribers.

The fact that they didn’t disclose total subscribers very likely means it’s not significantly different from the previously announced number.

@awp69 That isn’t what they said at all. Overall Content and Services were up by 8%, which includes gamepass revenue. Gamepass prices increased during the comparison months so an increase in revenue doens’t necessarily mean an increase in users(PS plus revenue increased around 29% during the last financial results for Sony, but users were likely flat during that period, or a slight increase)

They said there was something like a 30% increase in PC gamepass users, but it looks like that was probably people downgrading from Game PAss Ultimate to PC Gamepass(and forgoing cloud streaming) after the price hikes which now have a significant increase between PC gamepass and Gamepass Ultimate.

So, basically the number of Subscribers haven’t significantly changed but MS cherry picked some stats to give the impression of massive growth.

I’m a massive uchikoshi fan, and I actually missed that this game released for a few days. I will probably play it on Steam Deck, but if it gets released on PS it might be preferable there as I’m less inclined to play games on small screens these days(I can barely believe I used to play things like Final Fntasy tactics on the 2.9 inch screen of a GBA!)

@GamingFan4Lyf You only miss out if you have a fear of missing out? I'm pretty sure the rule is absolute and regardless of a fear, or lack thereof, you are still in fact missing out if you can't play it.

You're either doing something or you're not. Not doing it is missing out. Now some people are happy to miss out on the assumption they'll eventually get to experience it. That's a reasonable choice but getting to do something in 2 years from now is most definitely worse than getting to do it now.