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I mean, there's always a chance of disc rot happening, but if you take care your discs will probably outlast you.

I feel bad for the people who fell for the "union is good for us" scam. They joined SAG-AFTRA and now they aren't getting as many jobs as they used to anymore.

@heavyartillery56
If AI can replace your job then your job shouldn't even exist in the first place. AI is a tool, just like a hammer, you don't see hammers replacing people.

Well, Starfield managed to sell some systems, just not Xbox.
I know at least two friends who traded their Series X for a PC and PS5 because of Starfield.

Ain't this what Xbox have been since, like, OG Xbox?
Hells, even their marketing team advertises every Xbox hardware release with something along the lines of "the power of PC in your living room".

@Dampsponge
Of course having competition is the best option, but having no competition is actually better than having a competitor in paper only like we have right now.

When you have no competition you face the prospect of people simply not buying your product, so you actually strive to make better products, when you have a competitor in paper only you can get away with lots of thing because the only options are the clearly inferior product and your own product.

Case in point, just look at Nvidia over the years.
You can pinpoint the times where they had competition, the times they didn't have and the times where they had competiton in paper only.

Back when PS5 Pro released some articles mentioned that Sony was collaborating with AMD in order to make ML-based upscaling possible on FSR and future RDNA tech.

Glad to see AMD basically confirmed that was indeed the case.

I mean, all devs say something like that about their cancelled projects.

I thought if there was any game that would make me buy a PS5 Pro it would be either Wilds or FF7 Part 3.

Seems like it will be Part 3 then.

Idk, from what I've been reading and watching only LR missions seems like a cakewalk because they act like a tutorial and then once you reach HR you really start having some MonHun fun.

@Mikey856
Nah, but Guerilla went with an in-house solution for upscaling tech and temporal AA.

Also, it seems Capcom is using FSR 1.0 instead of FSR 3.X which would give them access to better upscaling tech and better temporal AA, which in turn would let them use better looking assets in performance mode.

@themightyant
They are using it as a "pre-vis for games", but games don't work the same as movies do and it can lead to games looking alike gameplay wise.

Gonna leave a comment before the section is closed:

I blame Europe for this current trade wars, they always impose tariffs on every country for literally anything and now they are complaining US is doing the same.

@themightyant While I hate saying the term slop, this time it does fit like a glove.
I agree that AI is a tool and it depends on how people will use it, and Microsoft is using it the wrong way.

Yeah, not buying this BS argument because Steam does allow for devs to sell keys on other sites and people in Europe still say its a monopoly.

And as always, its either a lazy indie dev or a stupid politician wannabe.

This is why making your company grow > making your company expand.

One is sustainable, the other isn't.

Name a better duo than Phil Spencer and a bad take that will take a lot PR to fix.

Anyways, AI is a tool used for automation of a proccess, not the whole freaking proccess and this is definitely not a good use for this tool.

"We can feed images and videos and it will replicate the gameplay", or, hear me out, you could feed it the GDD of all IPs you developed over the years, along with sales data and other stuff. Data like this is more reliable than "videos and images", and it also could steer the development to something more aligned to what your consumer both likes AND want.

@EfYI
Other than your usual keyboard warrior I honestly doubt it will move the needle. In fact negative reviews stayed stable.

For me its more a sign of Finances Team getting fed up than a sign of times.

Anyways, raw output means nothing if most of your games aren't good enough. A small constant output of good quality games is what makes a platform sell, look at Nintendo.

Hope this one has Linux support, because I'm pretty sure people are still pissed about they can't play Siege on Steam Deck.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
When your last two titles, one of which hasn't been released yet, have been a PR nightmare what did people expect exactly?

Companies can recover from a bad game, bad games are forgotten in less than a month, but bad PR, yeah, that will linger for months.

The point of Days Gone Remastered is to piss off John Garvin.
And honestly? I'm laughing. This is the kind of banter I wouldn't expect from Sony.

Well, I would give up too.
People prefer to play in a 2014 tablet than playing on an Xbox.

And I wish I was kidding, but people forget Switch managed to overtake Xbox One in three years.

I'm not against live service nor am I against this kind of game.

But the theme definetly will tank this game so hard it will make Concord looks like a blockbuster.

Do not pander to the "eat the rich" crowd, make a simple heist game with stellar gameplay and netcode. Keep it simple and you'll reach success.

If it was a data breach, Sony would have to disclose because most of the countries that have PSN also have some kind of data protection law.

It was probably something in the backend croaking and my money is on Azure given that we still haven't heard anything, if it was a hardware related issue the scope would have been limited to a couple of countries in one region.

Would buy dad a new car, brother a new house and would probably find somewhere quieter along the coast to settle in.

As for my lifestyle, outside of IT stuff it wouldn't change that much, would buy a dedicated freezer to stock up food tho.

@get2sammyb Online handshake for disc drive exists because HDCP and DMCA are a thing.

Sure, copyright protection methods and licenses could be implemented in other ways, but online handshake is cheaper and safer from a company standpoint. Well, until the authentication server bites the dust like what happened yesterday.

@Nexozi
Zoomers don't know how basic infrastructure works, that's why they are able to talk BS without getting a reality check in slap form.

So, apparently Azure had a brainfart yesterday and Sony also runs on Azure...

I still find kinda funny that we can blame MS everytime PSN goes down and we would be correct.

@lowk_prospect4
Store is "up", but communications and authentication isn't.

I wonder if Capcom will extend the beta for Monster Hunter Wilds, Playstation is like one of the main platforms for the game.

@MTMike87
PS3 servers run on another backend.

@ThunderFunk
This means their authentication server broke.

Given that not even Microsoft has bothered to advertise this game, the only thing they did was some damage control due to a controversy, I'd rather not see it on any other platform.

I just want to point out that while people are rightfully bashing him, he only said these things because someone under him fed him a paper with bulletpoints explaining why the game failed. Corpo politics at its best.

CEOs don't know everything that goes on in the company they manage, ironically as it sounds its not their job to know.

My Bloodbonium high says this means we are getting something

My pattern seekin brain on the hand remembers that weeks ago itch.io was taken down because a law firm was using some AI software to search the website for possible copyright being infringed upon, it found none but it still sent the takedown notice to the host of itch.io instead of sending it to the site.
This seems similar.

That is a cool article but it doesn't cover everything, this is a problem so old that it is allowed to both drive and drink on most countries and probably has kids if he got his girfriend pregnant during his teenage years.

And it also approaches the problem from the point of view these companies did all the these procedures like any other company would do. Most of these procedures for certification only apply if it is your first game published on that platform.

Companies that make these "slop", god I hate that word so much, usually buy the assets and licenses from another company that went bankrupt, which means they bypass a lot of those checks. And most platforms don't bother to investigate this kind of thing because game companies go under a lot more than people think they do.

Hmm, kinda agree on some points but disagree on another.

I don't think Sony will abandon physical media because its still a huge chunk of their revenue when it comes to software, but they will for sure abandon discs at some point because no one is making them anymore.

Unlike Spidey 1 and Miles, I doubt people were hyped for Spidey 2.
Add that on top of a underwhelming port and you get this result.

Sega also had to struggle for over a decade after the death of Dreamcast before they finally found a sustainable path.

For real, SEGA only became a powerhouse after 2016, before that we had like a 1:5 ratio of good games to commercial failures.

You can release on Steam easily than you can on any console.
Might as well see if the game gets a following before commiting to release on consoles.

Allright, time to open the valves of my Bloodbornium tank

I think Phil should just shut up.
Xbox One X was more powerful than PS4, still got outsold.
Xbox Series X is more powerful than PS5, got outsold too.

And to rub some salt in the wound, both Xbone and Series got outsold by 2014 tablet in less than three years despite one of those being in the market longer than said tablet.

Its not about performance, its about what you offer to your consumer base, and Xbox has nothing special, everything I can find there I can find in other platforms, with either better performance or with a plethora of other stuff.

@REALAIS
One misstep is a mistake.
A series of missteps isn't a mistake, Ubisoft is doing it on purpose.

The data also shows that most of the layoffs happened in areas that could be either automated or outsourced.

Eh, the article is a little bit confusing but it seems this is more of a NCSoft problem than a Sony one right?

Anyways, I think the main problem with the live service push is the fact that they went big and hard instead of starting with a simple 2D fighting game or a online coop PvE game like Helldivers.

No, and honestly I feel that most analysts don't really know how the market works.

The problem isn't the push, but rather what kind of public they want to gather with this push.

So far HD2 was successful because it didn't have any competition in the online PvE co-op space, which means the game was the go to for many people that want to play with friends without going the eSports route.

Sony could do the same with other genres, make an arcade racing game since those are dying and all we have are simutators everywhere, make 3v3 or 2v2 goofy fighting game like clayfighters, make a knockoff monster hunter game, etc.

I wonder if this really counts as a cancelation because as far we are concerned unlike the TLOU2 multiplayer we haven't heard any news about those games.

Guess they were really early into development, like, after concept stage and before alpha.

I feel like MGS Delta is a Q2/Q3 release.
Lots of MGS merch releasing/re-releasing on that window, including some neat Rex/Ray model kits from Kotobukiya.