EvilBear

@11001100110zero Oh I completely hear you on the counter point and your consideration of those facts is totally valid. I also understand that it can all be pretty subjective.
It’s hard to actually call those numbers a failure unless you’re comparing them to the competition. They want to be bigger than PlayStation, why wouldn’t they? PS2, PS3, PS4, and PS5 have almost the same third party games minus exclusives that are mostly just timed exclusives these days. Their always online Xbox One fumble caused an entire console generation at a critical time for consumers to be investing purchases in a blossoming digital ecosystem to go PS4. PS5’s PS4 backwards compatibility is a huge deal. It basically has that same system people spent ridiculous amounts of money on built into it.

Xbox has done a respectable job from sales throughout the years but they helped set a standard that they let get away from them and is now divided up between their two biggest hardware/ecosystem competitors. Their competitors that they now find themselves publishing for. They’ve failed to meet their own metrics. They helped shape the industry as it is today and don’t appear to like the standards that they helped set. I adored my Xbox and Xbox 360. So many good memories. But…

• Flip flopping on exclusives
• Taking PlayStation consumers for granted by saying “Let us introduce you to this franchise (Gears)” then “Oh, the people who bought our system are angry that you don’t have to do the same, so no highly-anticipated prequel story for you.” Everything on the earth is stupid expensive right now and Microsoft just told PlayStation owners “Just kidding, go buy yet another expensive piece of hardware to enjoy this series that we catfished you into.”
• Cementing themselves as one of the biggest publishers then proceeding to 💩can so many developers and employees across the entire Xbox family of developers after putting them through a tremendously anxiety-inducing post-pandemic corporate buyout that involved the FTC’s scrutiny and scorn. Xbox has failed as a hardware manufacturer because they continue to fall short of having a concrete business model that fans can depend on.

The exclusivity ship already sailed for them. They’re a 3rd party publisher with a hardware line that has been struggling since 2013.

@skinnybass Between Nintendo and Sony, I game well. ❤️

It’s been amateur hour in the gaming division at 1 Microsoft Way ever since the Xbone reveal and they keep finding innovative ways to middle finger literally every “side” of the gaming community all these years later. I’ve lost all trust.

Microsoft continues to put this brand in the hands of fools.

@DarianStarfrog Respectfully, I don’t feel that this is totally fair. God of War games have mostly done a good job maintaining the core series identity. Not perfect, but I think it is too early to write this game off so arbitrarily.

Also, the whole “ew woke” thing, that’s so tired and devoid of any meaning or seriousness after two decades of “keep politics out of my games”. Media can speak for itself without the need of an empty political trigger phrase.

Don’t tell David Jaffe. He’ll generate an AI YouTube thumbnail for his next unhinged rage video and continue to display the emotional tact of a 7-year-old.

I think Sony can be strategic with their IP appearing elsewhere. MLB, makes sense though I know MLB is why that happened. Stuff like the Namco-developed Hot Shots Golf, the Horizon Lego game being on Switch, Helldivers being everywhere, I understand all of that.

Nintendo, even through their worst (Wii U) survived without sending their IP to the land of publishing on other platforms. Sony leaving PC behind makes sense. Plus, with all the nonsense Microsoft is pulling with their identity crisis that they’ve made the whole industry’s problem, I can’t say I blame Sony.

@Gbarsotini I picked it up on Switch 2. It’s extremely charming and fun.

“People aren’t angry enough at rising costs literally everywhere else in their lives, why don’t we exploit these troubled times for additional profit as well?”

This infuriating phenomenon is obviously not exclusive to video games. The powder keg of rage that these folks continue to pour gasoline over is flirting with absolute disaster.

This man’s perspectives are ridiculous. His little dash of ableism in there is the cherry on the 💩 cake.

Did he have to invoke Epstein in his takedown of a side-scroller? This guy may or may not have some valid criticism of the game but his delivery makes any value of his opinion void.

I haven’t played the game so I don’t know if it’s any good or not, but that is some unfortunate and nauseating behavior.

@Questionable_Duck My PC, PS5, and Switch 2 are the coolest Xboxes I’ve ever owned.

Boiler explosions are no joke.

Meta is just awful

Give me PS3 emulation that supports physical games. I will wear that PS5 out.

My take is that Nintendo and PlayStation leverage their hardware in innovative and efficient ways for their exclusive IPs. They’re the top dogs for a reason.

“14 years” Excuse me while I turn to dust.

@judgmentarrows Which would be dreadful for consumers. Sony and Nintendo are arguably the best at what they do. Competition between them and success between them drives innovation to create the PlayStation games you love so much.

Willing to give Nintendo and Sony the benefit of the doubt here. Nintendo is so risk-averse to non-gaming utilization of their properties that I’m sure they’ve extended a lot of trust to Sony for this one. Which… all of this is still weird to say 🤣

@AdamNovice That was me in the early 2000s. My parents weren’t keen on buying more than one or two game consoles and Sony scorned them with a bad warranty on a TV so the Sony brand was viewed as toxic by them. Nintendo/Sega then Nintendo/Xbox it was. I had to borrow my friend’s PS2 to play Final Fantasy games when I grew up playing them on Nintendo.

AI has become unavoidable. That being said, I absolutely do not trust any of these companies to utilize it ethically. Imagine the soulless filth EA will have ready with this technology.

@thechetearly Yes! Seriously! Maybe some QoL upgrades by then but I’m totally fine with Sony doing what Nintendo did with the Switch 2 Pro Controller: Essentially same device, same layout, same reliability, cleaner feel, better quality.

I don’t care what they say as long as their games come out where I play: PlayStation + Nintendo

I hope the game is excellent and launches on PC, Xbox Series S|X, PlayStation 5, and Switch 2 with cross platform multiplayer. I’m a huge Nintendo nerd and PlayStation fan but I love me some Halo!

I love these games and their stories so I really don’t care.

People are working two jobs to feed their kids and this do**hbag just haphazardly gets on a plane and flies to another country to be a giant manchild because he wants more preview content for his favorite murder simulator. Good god.

This dude has been talking out of his backside for innumerable console generations now and he rarely hits the mark. He’s one of those people that spits out complete nonsense almost every time you see his name. At this point, he’s as predictable as death and taxes.

What a cartoonishly evil turn of events.

Twin Snakes on the GameCube gave it a breath of fresh air back in the day. It’s very much a game with a solid foundation to improve on. Nintendo did it once, Konami can do it again. Include the VR Training though.

I love that they’re doing this. I’ll be sticking to PC for this, but it’s fun and can elicit all sorts of emotions traveling through the real world. The more folks with access to this, the better I say.

TBH, I think I’ve bought more “Xbox” games on Nintendo and PlayStation lately than an actual Xbox or Pc.

@Ricky-Spanish Respectfully, I think it matters more these days. With increased costs across multiple industries, inflation, tariffs, and families having to guard their wallets more than usual during this economic uncertainty for the average person, I’m honestly not surprised people have to pick and chose a bit more these days.

100% a Switch 2 game for me regardless of exclusivity time. For me, Nintendo and Sony have carved out unique places in my gaming heart. Seriously, PS5 + Switch 2 can’t go wrong. Xbox is porting their games to those platforms anyway. Sending positive vibes to Supergiant and Nintendo for giving this series life.

Damn. Well, if Netflix wants to develop a game based on the franchise, I guess they have a good partner.

Between PS5 and Switch/Switch 2 I have had so much to play.

I bought that upon release because I’m a huge Star Wars fan. It was just frustrating and I never finished it.

I don’t really see Cloud as exclusively a PlayStation icon these days as he has been ever-present on Nintendo platforms for a while now, even as a guest in Smash Brothers. That being said, his history with the PlayStation brand is indisputably important and should have been in AstroBot at launch but.. ya know, SE and all.

I 100% appreciate PlayStation fans wanting Sony to take a measured, cautious approach to ports. After seeing Microsoft’s strategy cause people to rethink the value of Xbox hardware and the endless rounds of layoffs the Xbox brand is experiencing, their hesitancy to see Sony port and publish games on Xbox is valid. With that, the SONY IS DOOMED quotes in this article are reactionary and excessive. It’s one game and it not even one of their cinematic single player masterpieces that sell PlayStations.

@TimeDelayedGamer Very much my thought. I’m here for it though! Seems funny wishing Nintendo and Sony luck on THEIR Legend of Zelda movie lol

Looking at floundering Xbox console sales but flourishing game sales, Microsoft is making good on their promise to support PlayStation, Nintendo, and competing streaming services as well as continued PC support. Xbox consoles could go away tomorrow and Microsoft would still be one of the biggest names in the game. Now all eyes should be on seeing if Microsoft is going to be able to make GamePass make sense for the industry and profitability. I have my doubts, but meanwhile I do not mind being able to use the service.

The thing about the extreme level of negativity is that not a single person here at home, at work, or in any of the friend groups on and offline have foamed at the mouth about this series. I do find it difficult to believe that most of the negative reviews are for legitimate reasons like maybe not liking a particular actor’s portrayal of a character. I have disliked shows and games that most people loved but it was never for something as infantile and pathetic as culture war reasons or someone’s appearance.

@joeyflannel I can understand that to an extent. I did relate Final Fantasy to PlayStation for a long time until the GBA came out (makes me feel old).

My first Resident Evil game was RE2 on N64, then Zero and RE 1 remake on GameCube, then 4 exclusive to GC, then the ports of 2 & 3 on GC. RE has strong Nintendo roots for me.

Crash Bandicoot does still resonate “PlayStation” for me, but feels strange that he’s technically a Xbox mascot now.

I’m a very platform agnostic guy with a big place in my heart for Nintendo games but let’s be real, this game is going to sell best on PlayStation and PC. Hell, it might sell better on an eventual Switch 2 port than Xbox. I know hardcore Xbox fans are upset at this direction, but Microsoft’s games do really well on PlayStation, PC, and Nintendo. I would rather have these games readily available everywhere than watch them die marooned on the Xbox island. Minecraft on Switch and Indiana Jones on PlayStation are good examples.

While Nintendo exclusivity for this series would in no way destroy sales in Japan, the more places a game is available, the better in my opinion.

I mean I’m just going to mute the audio tracks and load Spotify up anyway.

Nintendo and Sony are going to clean house in the next generation just like they are now but phones and tablets are going to play a big role going forward. This is one reason that Nintendo’s hybrid model is working so well. It would be cool to see Sony go further in adopting the Switch 2 as their handheld of choice. I would love to see those two play nice with this challenging new landscape that they are both respectively doing well to navigate in their own ways. I don’t want either Nintendo or PlayStation to end up like Xbox.

I had to experience PS2 retroactively even though I was born before the SNES was released. My parents purchased me a PS2 in 2000 and three months later, the disc drive died. Sony refused to repair it for free. Not sure why, I was young. To this day, my parents refuse to purchase anything with the name “Sony” on it. We quickly became a GameCube + Xbox household. The cool thing is I’ve been able to have experiences for the first time over the last 20 years of my life and some of my friends have coveted that first exposure to so many classics. These days, I’m very much a platform-agnostic gamer with a proclivity towards Nintendo games but the PS2 had a stellar library.

Transformers, GI Joe, Power Rangers.. Hasbro does seem to own a lot of my childhood.

Some comments above lay fair criticisms but I will say this worked on my wife. The only game she plays is Mario Kart. Otherwise she is a sports freak. She became obsessed with Sonic and Shadow and now wants to play this game. Hook. Line. Sinker.