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@ThaBEN February is the end of the fiscal year for most companies. That’s why February has been stacked for releases these past couple of years. It literally is not that deep.

I think a lot of the hate surrounding Yasuke and their depiction of Japanese culture has been fueled by just straight up racism and hate. There is no excusing a lot that’s been said about that character and I hope more of the gaming audience pushes back against those types of people.
However, even as someone who thinks a lot of the critiques have been overblown I do feel like there was some stuff that was just really evidently awkward. Like genuinely why was there hip hop music playing during Yasuke’s gameplay? If you want to emphasize cultural mixing, do a blend of Japanese music from that era and one of the countless styles of African music from that era. I’m not really invested in how a $70 Ubisoft game turns out, but I hope they do things to turn the conversation around.

@DennisReynolds Tekken 8, MK1, and SF6 all have really bad monetization practices. They all have overpriced costumes and animations and stuff like that. Doesn’t excuse Capcom at all. However, just from the sheer excitement factor of the characters themselves it feels like SF has just kinda left MK1 and Tekken 8 in the dust this year.

Everyone’s saying “oh wow look at all these dumb companies not realizing they can make tons from single player games”. That’s not the lesson that’s gonna be learned here, there’s been countless of games that have proven that idea in the first place time and time again. There’s tons of good games that unfortunately don’t make the money they deserve. What companies are gonna learn, however, is to target the Chinese market more. The scope of this games success in China is unfathomable. Expect a lot more attempts from companies to break into the market.

Meanwhile SNK and Capcom are now exchanging characters left and right with now Street Fighter characters entering Fatal Fury. MK1 (and highkey Tekken 8 also) has had some rough DLC this year.

I’m surprised to see how much people are missing Jin. Obviously you have those dumb grifting culture warriors who see a male protagonist being followed up with a female protagonist and lose their mind, but there are a lot of rational people that miss Jin too. I liked his story and arc, but I don’t need it to continue. I’m really excited for the new possibilities of not only Atsu, but how the 400 year time leap can lead to new gameplay opportunities.

Who is that excited for Decapolice? Who is gonna be excited by the time this comes out in 2026? An unproven IP from a struggling developer that was supposed to be out last year. Genuinely what’s going on with their management. I wouldn’t be surprised if they shuttered beforehand.

General rule of thumb to consider marketing + distribution + international + ticket split with theaters is to take a budget and then multiply it by 2.5 to find the break even point. Borderlands would’ve had a break even point of roughly 287.5 million. Subtract the amount made, and that’s a loss of roughly 256 million. That’s bigger than what The Marvels lost last year and that’s one of the biggest Box Office Bombs ever.

We have barely gotten any PS5 games that really seem like they aren’t good enough in performance mode. Maybe FF7Rebirth but that seems like a Square issue that I hope they continue working on. I don’t think developers will be dropping performance mode anytime soon, especially with how it’s the dominant mode.

I mean they used like, one of the least liked performance modes on PS5. Of course it’s gonna look better. The fact that only one media outlet got this makes this feel like a marketing stunt more than anything.

I’ve seen a lot of character design videos around concord. There’s so much to learn about how much these fail. So many muted and blended tones, random splashes of color that don’t blend well with the rest of the color palettes, and a lot of extraneous additions that don’t serve to communicate gameplay function or express character. Idk how they’re gonna radically redesign the cast with them already being set for Secret Level, but there’s a lot of work that needs to be done to make them distinct and appealing.

Doesn’t the PS5 already do that? Like I know Sekiro runs at a nearly solid 60fps and that was without a next gen patch.

$700 console + $80 drive + $~20 stand. That’s $300 additional from the base model just to not have to pic between performance and fidelity mode.

This generation is a joke.

I’m sorry but $700 without the vertical stand and disc drive is actually insane. I’m not here to tell people what they can and can’t spend their money on, but did anything in that video really spell out $200 worth of improvements? (And that’s without the vertical stand and disc drive of base model).

7.5k for a what is likely to be the highest grossing piece of entertainment ever in human history is a joke

It took SFV the end of its initially planned last season to reach this same amount 4 years after launch. Hope Capcom invests in more FGs with this new money.

We, as a society, have evolved beyond the need for Borderlands and Gearbox.

I don’t see how Fairgame$ is less of a disaster than Concord. Universally hated at announcement even more than Concord, most people already forgot about it, and people are gonna be a lot more distrustful of Sony live services.

They need to greenlight a trillion Astro Bot games and they’ll be saved

Literally the fastest I’ve seen a game taken down. Even Hyenas had some time between its pre release beta and its release. It’s insane how literally everyone saw this coming from the very first moment of its official trailer. I hope the people at Firewalk are secure and they aren’t on the chopping block.

So layoffs can happen
-After you release a bad game
-After you release a good game
-The day you release a game
-Weeks before you release a game

@Maubari The QA team wasn’t the one who chose to make it a live service. QA wasn’t the one responsible for most core gameplay mechanics and design. Layoffs should only be celebrated if they’re done at the very top.

It’s so amazing how literally despite so many cases telling executives why they shouldn’t do this, their first instinct is to always lay off QA. Congrats on either making your next project more buggy at launch or making it take longer to develop and squash out the bugs.

Let’s assume every copy was digital so we don’t need to factor in the cut from game stores and packaging. Let’s even assume literally everyone bought the $60 digital deluxe version. Taking into consideration the cut that Steam gets from games: That would be $1320000 and that’s with all the best possible conditions. I don’t know where the $100 million budget came from, but the budget was undoubtedly high. This is maybe the biggest bomb in the game industry ever.

$70 is the max for me, and that would only be for like 30-100 hour masterclass experiences. Persona 6 could launch for $80 and win GOTY and I’d still wait for a sale.

sure thing lil bro

Begging for people to stop buying Ubisoft games at launch. They’ll be $20 by next year

This game isn’t even on Gamepass like the previous Atlus titles. I don’t get the logic of Microsoft where they are definitely deprioritizing exclusives, but they still wanna do the marketing stunts that were very common last generation where they pretend like 3dd party games are exclusive. That’s not even considering that it’s Metaphor of all games. Is Xbox really banking on their notoriously Western audience to buy a $70 new JRPG ip?

Does the game have any launcher combos? That’s like one of the biggest things I feel like distinguishes games like DMC and God of War from souls games, and with everyone saying “actually it’s not a souls game it’s a character action game!” im curious what exactly they mean by that.

@Specky There’s so many things wrong with this game and youre complaining about “pronouns” and “woke”.

@anoyonmus I meant announcing the fact even before the Xbox version is out.

This might be jumping the gun a bit but im confident at this point it’s just gonna be the entire slate. If they’re announcing their big holiday title by one of their best developers and an acclaimed IP is coming to PS5 before the Xbox version even launches, I don’t think anything is off limits, especially with how Xbox console sales are just gonna keep going down with this move. I don’t necessarily care a lot about most Xbox titles—except for Blade—so it’s not like I desperately want them, I just think that’s the reality.

I feel like im going insane reading these comments. Genshin Impact is one of the most predatory games there is. Not even mentioning the cultural insensitivities alleged by some players—the entire gacha model is built off the backs of exploiting vulnerable people to give up all their free time and money into games of chance. This man became a billionaire off of predatory actions that have had very real affects on real people’s lives. I don’t think the average developer who has a passion for games and is just trying to do their job should face intense criticism. But this guy? Absolutely no sympathy from me.

Do people voting Astro Bot not realize the game comes out in like 2 weeks? The only far out PS5 game that we know of and I would love to see more info of is Expedition 33. I think a Marvel VS Capcom release date is a reasonable want as well. I would love to see announcements from Sony’s first party studios, but there’s enough games coming out at the end of this year to where I’m satisfied.

The bait was too believable this time -I

I can pick up the original at GameStop for like $10. This isn’t even a Last of Us case where it was a PS3 game, this is a native PS4 game that still looks good. I can’t imagine why anyone during a general economic downturn would spend $60 on this.

*No launch store when the game is gonna have its most players

Oh this game is gonna lose MONEY money

Developers stop homogenizing shooters and leaning into popular trends challenge. Splitgate is maybe my favorite modern shooter, it’s definitely my most played. But so much of the stuff just seems lost with how this new game is structured. Even if they have few arena shooter modes where you pick up weapons and there’s no exclusive abilities than I’d be happy.

@MrMagic I feel like with the ramifications of everything we’ve seen these past 2 years, I don’t really wish for any more acquisitions from any companies. Sure the negative impact on Sony hasn’t been nearly as profound as it’s been on Microsoft or Embracer, but Sony has still closed multiple studios in the 2020s. Independent teams are definitely still struggling also, but corporate security seems like less and less of a safe bet.

It’s unfortunate that their legacy is just Order 1886 in many people’s eyes. The PSP games they worked on seemed actually pretty fun and well received. I’m surprised they accepted being bought out by Meta in the first place considering how nearly everything gaming they’ve done has flopped. It sucks that talent like this has been constantly thrown to the side this year, and I hope everyone impacted lands on their feet.

This is what happens when we’ve reached a sort of technological plateau with specs and graphics. The PS5 generation has undoubtedly been my least favorite that I’ve lived through. Development timelines have slowed to a crawl, there have been unprecedented economic motivated decisions that have not only affected players but also developers, there are barely any exclusives for the current generation. Jedi Survivor was like one of the few current gen exclusives. I’m not saying more people shouldn’t play it, I’m saying that my $500 investment into a PS5 is feeling very lacking. I don’t see how the PS6 improves this problem at all and I don’t foresee myself getting one.

What about the Final Fantasy XVI controller?

@DennisReynolds Why don’t they make Mortal Kombat free to play? That’s very popular and would make a lot of money. Why don’t they just add the most popular character in history? That’s very popular and would make a lot of money. Why don’t they make the next Mortal Kombat a looter shooter and also a soulslike? Those are very popular and would make a lot of money.

I’m sorry these guest characters are so lame. Mortal Kombat DLC has become allergic to actual Mortal Kombat characters and is just trying to gain new players attention even tho so many of the guests characters are just characters from 20+ year old movies. Add some gaming characters or something, make new MK characters instead of just rebooting the old one. So many guest characters makes it not special anymore.

@InfidelFrigidstraigh If developers make more character action games instead of Soulslikes I would gladly play them.

Just barely any developers are making them.

If we extrapolate the beta numbers to the official release, then genuinely this might be one of the biggest Sony gaming bombs they’ve put out in a while. Returnal didn’t sell amazing but Sony didn’t own Housemarq at that time and the budget shouldn’t have been that huge. Sackboy and Destruction All Stars didn’t sell great either but those were obviously lower budget. Concord getting all this promotion + weekly cinematics + recurring development spend due to its live service nature, it has to cost a pretty penny. Microtransactions cant help this game if it doesn’t have an audience in the first place. Maybe when reviews drop things will pick up steam, but at this rate I don’t see how this isn’t a financial disaster like Suicide Squad was.

The GG community is mad that it’s Lucy and not another GG veteran or Ragna but it makes complete sense. A BlazBlue character would be too limited of an audience, and of all characters I feel like a sci fi punk character with a unique weapon from an acclaimed anime makes sense.

Did we, as a society, really deem Stellar Blade as the 2nd best game on PS5 so far this year? Idk I might just be a cynic but it really feels like a lot of people go “that game is a 3rd person action adventure game therefore it is good”. Theres been so much good and inventive stuff this year so its disappointing to see something that’s so blatantly NieR and Sekiro be that high up

Splitgate was unironically so fun. It’s by far my most played shooter. Halo style gameplay with so much fun applications of the portals in both skillful and funny ways, not to mention a very respectable amount of content. I’m really looking forward to it.

The 2D platformer was honestly really good, hopefully they apply some of those principles to the remaster