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This is only a good thing. Yes it’s less about Xbox and more about switch and pc but still. All the tech is so similar it makes sense to maximize sales at launch when you sell the majority of your copies and Square isn’t apart of Sony it’s of no value to limit your sales to a single platform. Good on square.

@PuppetMaster it’s not guaranteed but it’s a lot more likely

@ShadowRJ it’s less about Xbox and more about pc but all of them are so similar in tech that it makes sense to just maximize sales on everything

@Bluemoon2008 just saying supergiant isn’t some huge team. They are a star indie team with a smaller overhead. Nintendo is more than big enough to sign them to a year exclusive deal.

@Bluemoon2008 why not almost a year? Nintendo is more then capable of signing a big check lol

Great get by Nintendo. At least Nintendo is competing with PlayStation. As well GG’s to most of the other AAA games hoping to get into the GOTY conversation. Very unlikely games like KCD2, Yotei, DS2, OW2, and any others will get a spot besides on of them.

Owe this is gonna be MW3 in the worst possible way again lol

@Oram77 mean considering Both are quite a bit apart why not play both if Both are good, especially considering hack and slash games are few and far between today

Man so happy to see the fighting game renaissance continuing on.

Is EA actually bout to pull this off??

Just like Nintendo doesn’t really have a strong case with Pocket Pair for palworld, think Sony is gonna have a hard time sueing Tencent. Is it similar, yes absolutely, but tencent’s game is a survival multiplayer game which is completely separate from Horizon.

I just hope they expand where they need too but don’t add a ton of stupid RPG bloat. Still think about how Horizon is held back by trying to be a rpg and action adventure game and does neither truly amazingly. Think something like Jedi Survivor is a good example of what a sequel in action adventure games should do. Add more combat options but don’t add 20 different types of weapons with 5 levels of rarity, at least in the main game if they do legends 2 that’s a different story.

Alright so let’s move on to July’s already lol

Really hope it’s a new ip, but it’s probably not. Doing the remake was really stupid and doing a sequel is probably a dumb idea. Whatever it is I hope it’s much more survival horror and not the supermassive style.

@get2sammyb does the gameplay follow up the kojima energy the trailers have been giving off?

1. Clair Obscur Expedition 33- impressive new ip, new twist on turned based. Amazing game

2. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2-one of the most impressive immersive worlds, incredible and well written story.

3. Doom The Dark Ages- just a well made action game and FPS. It’s unfortunate that id is really the only team delivering single player FPS games like this.

4. Monster Hunter Wilds- very addictive gameplay loop. Awesome multiplayer. Incredible depth with the armor and weapon trees.

5. Splitgate 2- yes they messed up the marketing but it’s the closest to a halo game we have but with actual content. Helps revitalize the movement shooter genre. Good on them to listening to their community

@J2theEzzo yes for games but this isn’t just for games, it’s for the entirety of WB.

@J2theEzzo yes cause Sony also has a good track record with their movies like madam web, kraven and of course morbin time

Think this rumor is *****. Sony is on record of stating they don’t want a streaming service let alone one as big as HBO Max. As for the game side wouldn’t be the worst to get the ip and more teams but still seems tricky, especially if they make them ps5 exclusive when looking at how much ip games like Hogwarts Legacy made day and date by launching everywhere. Also considering Sony’s movie track record also don’t know about this

And this is why pc is important and why we are gonna see more 2nd party games and games like FF launch pc day and date.

Awesome to see good on Sony

Multiplatform is still the right call and right step forward. Even though it didn’t sell well on Xbox it’s more so if we develop for pc as well might as well do Xbox since all of them are similar chip sets. Yes 16 sold great on PS5 only but clearly it’s not enough for Square so they either need to make the games for cheaper which probably won’t happen so you need to go too more platforms. PC is the more important area of growth. Seeing the sales success Sega/Atlus, Capcom, and Fromsoft have been seeing it’s clear day and date pc is the right step forward.

@AdamNovice bingo hit the nail on the head. Making 12 games right from the jump was the main problem and also making numerous games that would compete in the same space (looking at fairgames and marathon specifically). Know it’s reductive to say “make another Helldivers 2” but more so like you said they need to make more specialized specific live service games and target open areas. Marvel Tokon is the perfect example of this.

Glad Shift Up and Sony are finding success.

@djlard it’s a live service game cause it’s gonna have the season pass with characters and skins. Still will have a major single player component most likely

Man I feel stupid for thinking EA actually had a chance of being better. They were doing actually good with single player games and investing in new teams but they screwed up. Man AAA publishers are screwed in the West. Idk why any new teams or devs would want to work for companies like EA when you can start your own team like Sandfall.

@Korgon not saying there weren’t great examples just that there were a lot of bad examples. And the cost of development has exponentially increased over the last decade so it make more sense to focus on the main single player campaign instead of add on modes.

@Kairuuu that’s not it at all. It’s that companies dickride trends and but bets on the wrong games.

@Lonejester your not wrong but the thing is far too many AAA companies thought this was the next “battle royal” and invested billions into find the the Fortnite of extraction shooters and stuffed it down our throats before these games even hit the market in a meaningful way. It’s clear that Arc Raiders stands the best chance at doing well and everything else is screwed.

@UltimateOtaku91 Sony deserves the hate. The inherent idea behind investing in live service games wasn’t a bad idea, but Sony absolutely screwed up and made all the bad calls with picking what games and teams to invest in. They picked mainly teams that were riding trends and that hardly ever works out. They should have selected fewer teams and picked more unique projects then a hero shooter and 2 extraction shooters.

@Korgon cause there was a lot of ***** mp modes. I’m totally in agreement for adding more modes but let’s not act like the vast majority of these were ***** add on modes.

@Vectrex lol this game ain’t gonna be free to play.

@RBMango not even the single player stuff. Under his leadership we have gotten 90% sequels that are generally more of the same and are way over priced. Vast majority of the sequels this gen have played it very safe and have had bloated budgets. The only real exceptions for this are Astro Bot and Returnal.

@rjejr it’s paywalled for early access, goes live for everyone on Monday

@get2sammyb to be fair a lot of those modes weren’t good and were crappy add ons.

@ChrisDeku WeLl ReCeIvEd

@ChrisDeku no it’s not the baseline lol. Do you work for Microsoft and know what their expectations are? Microsoft realizes that game pass limits sales and it’s why they look at other metrics. Yes Dark Ages is an expensive game to make but the expectations for it are far different then Eternal considering id is under Microsoft now and its in an entirely different company system and how it makes money.

@Ravix mean I think Microsoft is more then happy with how their gaming division is doing lol. Given how they measure success they are more then happy with how Dark Ages is doing.

Will say I’m happy Gunfire is with the AAA group. They more then proved themselves with Remnant 2.

Mean the main thing is that Microsoft is happy with the player numbers and it’s clear that they are happy with it. That’s the main thing with making sure the teams stay employed and making good games.

Really hope we can put the console war crap aside now. Microsoft is releasing good games on everything now so hopefully all the fanboys can shut up now

Man bungie is so *****. It’s hard enough for any game to be in the top 5 let alone a game with all the baggage Marathon has. Man it’s amazing how PlayStation has ***** up with their live service *****.

@ChrisDeku why are you d-riding Bungie so hard dude? It’s not the wildest thing that Bungie “expected” it to be a top 5 game considering Destiny 2 was the 3rd best selling game in 2017. Knowing Bungie’s current ***** leadership it’s more than plausible that they expected it to be huge. Bungie is so *****.

@Onelastgo especially when there are options to do it right. A lot of people just want options for physical gamers.

@kill_Nil it’s fair to criticize Xbox for this. Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Starfield, Indiana Jones, Doom The Dark Ages. Several other major publishers do this too but Xbox is the most damning due to their severe lack of effort with their physical releases, hell Avowed didn’t even get a physicial release at all lol.

@Cres_Waven1 you’re wrong on several fronts. Lots of modern games are playable right off the disc. And there wouldn’t be articles about Sony doing this cause Sony does a very good job of including a playable version on their disc. Xbox doesn’t give a ***** about physical releases.

@Deadhunter seems like a yes based off of info

This is a good thing to see overall

Seems like a solid shooter that’s dragged down by too much micro transactions and too much live service *****. Seems like it’ll do better then Concord but doesn’t seem longed for this world.