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"I'll be enjoying playing the game as a fan"
Something tells me he won't LUL

So, he's afraid to call his AI companion AI because it will generate backlash? If he can't properly explain what GenAI is when compared to programming patterns for autonomous NPC, he shouldn't be in the industry.

BTW most people also think videogames aren't art either.

In theory, self produced and/or self published.
If both, good, if not also good.

My only gripe is with indies made with government grants. These shouldn't belong anywhere other than the trashbin.

At this point I would just replace the artist, people are going to be pissed if you use AI at any stage, no, scratch that, they are going to be pissed just from hearing the word AI, so go for the cheaper option, save some money and make your game cheaper whiler at it.

YES! YES!
I put 80+ hours on Silksong and I'm glad we going to have more.

On a totally unrelated note, imagine if this and E33 update trailer were the last announcements from TGA instead of Concord 2: Highguard.

I just love people implying that if the game was showcased in the front page of PS Store/Xbox Store/Steam it would sell or showcased more often in events it would sell.

That isn't true at all, the whole concept of this game is alien for most people which means no matter how much you advertise it the bottom line for sales wouldn't change.
Also you have to pay to be featured in most front pages, the exception being Steam but they also don't feature any game there.

“the future of Call of Duty is very strong and we believe our best days are ahead of us given the depth and talent of our development teams”

Yeah, I wouldn't put my coins on it.
And probably neither will MS.

Well yeah, the IPs Warner holds have more value than the gaming studios.

The end of an era, may he find happiness now that his work is over.

I must be going blind or something, but I didn't catch anything AI from the trailer.

Sure, the logo and the image on the power up cards are generic, but they are Unity/Unreal Store generic and not AI generic.

My money is on PoE 2;

Ghibli slop? Really? To me it looks more like a Gundam inspired art than a Ghibli one.

McFly over there is looking like Amuro Ray.

I'd kill for a Legend of Dragoon and a Wild Arms remake.

Well, GenAI can't generate pixelated looks that well because of how they generate images. Sure, maybe a trained and curated model would be able to do that, but we know that costs money and companies use AI to save money not to spend more of it.

While it looks like AI generated, honestly I think its just generic enough for people to mistake it with AI, or maybe the concept was created via AI and the artist just rolled with it.

Idk boss, even Bethesda said Elder Scrolls 6 is still years away and while I don't trust them when they promise something they usually don't FA with release dates.

New Diablo game is also not an option, D4 is both a recent game and its still receiving updates despite it being a vessel of hatred, maybe a new expansion but usually those are revealed on either Blizzcon or Xbox Showcase.

Fallout New Vegas remake while plausible, we already got a new Fallout release via Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, so chances are slim to none at all.

God of War... idk, this does not look like a God of War thing but I do feel like we are going to see something from that franchise very soon.

As for my own theory, its probably something related to Path of Exile 2, new league is releasing soon and free weekend starts at the same time TGA happens, seems like a good way to promote the game.

Yeah, my experience tells that when a company says "The product changed so much since then" you should brace yourself for something worse than what you saw.

Why? Because major changes costs major money and companies do not like to expend major money to change a product, unless the change costs less money than letting the project flop. Case in point, Chernobyl Sonic design from the Sonic movies.

@Max_the_German
About that, there was a similar backlash when synths were released citing the exact same reason "But musicians will lose their job".

I just find this funny.

Again, as with Arc Raiders we should care less about whether they used AI and more like how they used it.

“AI generated content has been used and then edited by our team for certain parts of the in-game voices, music, and graphics"
So far nothing wrong here, it doesn't seem they went full Microsoft and used AI either for correction or for concept.

@GamingGod
Different goals and thresholds to develop an incremental update

NMS devs will deploy an update because they can and they only need to sell say like 100.000 copies to break even, anything beyond that is pure profit.

Ubisoft will deploy an update because they see an opportunity to maybe make a profit, keyword here being maybe. Not only that but if NMS need 100k to break even, Ubisoft needs at least 10x more to reach the same break even point.

Given how """""well""""" Shadows sold, that's a nice way of saying there won't be any updates going forward.

I wonder if my friend will be on this playtest again
He was on the last few ones and from what he said watching paint dry was more excting than the overall gameplay and look of Marathon.

I would say "Well, its CoD and Japan, what would you expect" but damn, worst retail launch in the last 15 years was not on my bingo.

@TrollOfWar
Main problem with CoD is the fact that it became a hub game where each new interaction is just a DLC to be added to this hub.

You would need a standalone game for Switch and I don't think they want to spend money on that.

Well, who wouldn't be thrilled at the prospect of finally selling a game after god knows how many years?

Well, yeah, of course it wont be priced as a console.
Remember, consoles aren't the same as a PC, and this is pretty much a full featured PC in a pretty convenient box.

All in all, I still dig the concept and hope we get an official SteamOS release alongside the Steam Machine.

@Max_the_German
Its rational but at the same time its not, given we pushed the industry to adopt region-free hardware as a standard.

I know this might sound crazy, but I too would pay for a region locked console if it means I get to pay cheaper.

I will sit out of this one, but congrats to whoever got the invite.

They saw CoD bleeding and took their shot.
Good for them and I hope it works.

I mean, the lack of sales/players milestone post is telling, no?

Also, the SteamDB chart that was supposedly missing is under App ID 1938090, it has been under that ID ever since they unified all CoDs into a hub launcher.

"His stance isn't wholly against AI, but that it needs some form of regulating to protect workers from 'excessive automation'."

And this is why China will take over, they simply do not care about protecting workers as long as they can make more, can make it cheaper and still have the same or better quality.

There's a reason why we are banning shipping AI chips to China, and its because if they get hold of that tech there's no stopping them.

@SirSephy
tbh the chances of any random guy getting a development job at a big gaming company has been close to none for a decade or so.

I don't see a problem with AI but companies have been shipping any AI generated asset as a final product and that ain't how the tool is supposed to be used.

But then again, its the same companies that uses FSR/DLSS and frame generation as a stupid crutch to reach a frame/resolution target instead of properly optmizing their games to reach their target frame/resolution natively and using FSR/DLSS and framegen to improve on it.

@Stragen8
Agreed, sounds more like a MarkScan thing than a Sony thing.

Mainly because if people managed to reverse engineer the servers API in a proper way there's nothing both companies could do.

Leave it to Microsoft to ruin one of the most profitable franchises of all times. First the campaign that don't look nor play like a CoD should and now this?

Phil Spencer does it again ladies and gentlemen.

All I can hear is that kid from Simpsons going "Stop, stop, its already dead" while pointing at Xbox.

@StrickenBiged
This has less to do with software and more with logistics.

Its easier to do logistics if a console is region-locked, stock management, shippment, distribution, etc. You could even manufacture some components in said country too to get some tax discount.

Not only that, but even advertisement, collab oppotunities and other stuff can be made easier by going that route.

I dig the idea, but not releasing on PS5 is a mistake IMO.
Like, you gonna lose a chunk of Horizon's fanbase by not doing that.

I mean, isn't that always the problem with most sequels Sony do? They always win on the technical side but always fail on either character development, plot development, pacing and so on.

Take Ragnarok or HFW, both are damn good games that improved on their predecessors, but most people prefer said predecessors for other reasons other than that technical aspect.

I definitely read that as Mixtape and not another kind of tape

@Oram77 For a game this big? Yes.
Don't get me wrong, 3.3M is a good number, but it isn't near what a game like this should be making, at least not when its a sequel to an established IP.

I mean, Tsushima sold 2/3 of this number in three days, as a new IP without nothing to rely on except hype and hope.

Something went way wrong with marketing or public perception with this game.

The fact that it took them this long to reveal the numbers means the game sold, just not as fast as they were expecting.

Well, if the government won't help people can always reverse engineer the online part and host their own server.

I mean, Insomniac usually releases on October/November
Since November is already taken, this means Wolvie will get the October release.

Not surprising.
When it comes to hardware Switch 2 already sold around 33% of Xbox Series total global sales.

That's a lot of Switches and Japan is their biggest install base.
Dragon Quest is also pretty much a game tailored for the japanese market.

"Our guess is that the PS5’s share of sales will dramatically decline"

My guess is that it will stay about the same.
Its a brand that Square like it or not is already associated with Playstation.
Anyways, I can only picture Switch 2 managing to hit about the same number as PS5 when it comes to FF sales, Xbox just ain't the way brother.

@andrewsqual I wonder how much Series S is holding them back at this point. Because your guess might be spot on, a six month delay again means something is not going right with QA.

Rockstar has quite a history with the legal system, if they made that move they must've done so with a reason.

Technically, this is more like a targeted discount than dynamic pricing.
Targeted discounts aren't against the law or anything, but you do have to disclose why some consumers are getting it while others aren't.

@seinfeldfanatic
Honestly? Input reading isn't the problem here, input reading on top of input delay is.

Remove the delay and the difficulty goes way down.

Input reading is fine, its how these games worked back then.
Input reading on top of input delay? Yeah, thats a nope from me.

A friend got a refund fo this game, it has way too many technical issues.