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@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare We haven't had a major publisher close in a while. My money is on Warner Bro to hit rock bottom first

@Perturbator Comparing Steam chart for games have to be one of the most annoying thing ever... Steam doesn't account for every platform you can purchase the games on. MH Wilds can only be purchased on Steam where stuff like KCD and AC: Shadows are on Epic, or Ubisoft's own platform. PC game keys is a big market, and unfortunately... If you want to save money on Assassin Creed Shadows. You're stuck purchasing a Ubisoft Connect key vs a steam key

@PHXNTXM I do thoroughly wash my hands, but I can’t stop and wash my hands every minute Im playing. It mid summer in US, I live in the south, in a room facing the sun 90% of the days, and get sweaty hands while playing. Humans shed a lot of dead skin during the day that will build up on the controller. I also like to stop and pet my 2 cats who are occasionally cover in red clay soil that is found in my region.

@MaikonCSGarcia Yet Activision is talking about bring back toys to life after the purchase which is a larger investment than porting some old games to newer hardware.

@Rafie I don’t think you can count PuBG as the only reason it was “exclusive” was due MS allowing early access games on the platform and Sony did not. PuBG came to PS4 during it full release less than 4 month later.

It probably just gonna be full of stuff that was announced in other developers abd publishers own direct, and announcements of more PS PC ports.

@RedRiot193 Outside of Nathan relationship with his wife and sully, and a couple of nods in his attic. There is nothing in that game that requires you to have experience the other games. I had no issues just into 4 with no prior experience of playing the other 3 at all.

@RedRiot193 You really don't have to play the other 3 games to understand what going on in this game... Just like you didn't have to play God of war 1-3 to know what's happening in God of War 2018.

@Would_you_kindly And those gods generally agree to stay of conflicts created by mortal man. A lot of them disapprove of Thor involvement with the humans.

@Would_you_kindly Just cause super heroes exist. Doesn't mean they're gonna be able to just simply stop a massive conflict. They're men, not gods.

@Would_you_kindly Cause in actual Marvel Comic the Black Panther being either T'Chaka and Azzuri assist Cap during the war which is how he actually got his vibranium circle shield.

@riceNpea Maybe the Marvel's Avengers IP...? They still have She hulk and stuff planned for the game.

@WadeIsInsane No name behind meaning it not apart of a long ruining franchise or known IP. Not that it was created by no name people. And no, if you ask any JRPG fan on Xbox they aren't gonna recommend it cause I've spoken to plenty of JRPG fan on Xbox that never played it. I've personally have never played it and the 360 was my platform of choice but I've played mistwalker other games blue dragon (mainly due to the anime), Terra Battle, and Fantasian.

I guess if you ask anybody on the internet then sure.

Who cares about the IP if you don't have the developers that developed them. Halo has been a complete mess since Bungie left. Spyro and Crash have been not the same since naughty dog or Insomniac. That why it hurts far more losing Bungie to Sony vs losing spyro or Crash to Microsoft.

While Bungie has said that they're stay multiplatform that doesn't guarantee Xbox. Multiplatform can easily just mean PS and PC. Just like we can't guarantee the same with Xbox's current deals after 2024.

@WadeIsInsane the average Xbox gamer isn't enthused with the generic low budget niche JRPG that japanese developers fill the market with every year. They want the big budget fancy stuff: mainline Final Fantasy, Kingdom heart, Persona... etc. A lot of JRPG during that Xbox 360 era wasn't that.

Lost Odyssey for example had no name behind it. It required you to already be interested in JRPG in general, and wasn't particularly novice friendly. Even then I doubt many JRPG fans on 360 bothered to touch it as most people tend to stick to the IPs they know, and not new IPs.

An eye-for-eye was Sony buying Bungie.

@UltimateOtaku91 I'm sure Xbox gamer would gladly trade medium, Stalker 2, Ark 2, the gunk, Tunic, The ascent, scorn and crossfire X for FF7.

People get upset cause Sony have a tendency to go for big title when it comes to exclusive, and they like long exclusive periods with no guarantee of the game ever showing up on other platforms.

When Microsoft has a timed exclusive you can guarantee it'll come to other platforms in 2-3 months. Also a lot of those games are part of the ID@xbox program, so some exclusive time is required due to the developers applying and receiving some help from Microsoft. They didn't go out and buy the exclusivity.

It great to see at least 1 company is holding strong with custom in-house technology. With everything moving to 3rd party engines, specifically UE, we don't really get to see much variation in the technology used by games anymore.

@Th3solution While Fortnite still have they Battle royale Fortnite is basically slowly transitioning from a BR to a 'metaverse' game; which basically what game like PS Home where. Before Facebook came along, coined the term, and ruined it. So that where all this extra stuff comes now.

Hopefully you're taking notes, Sony, cause this is how you do a live services/gaas/ whatever these kids call it nowadays games. Please don't give us Halo Infinite levels of trash.

@Balosi That is only true if you stick to the usual store fronts (Steam, Epic, Uplay.... etc). The PC is just simply unmatch when you can go to site like Greemmangaming and buy just about all major releases for less than their console price, and less than the Steam price. I was able to get games like Ghostwire Tokyo and Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga deluxe edition for like $45 at release. Games that costed $60 and $70 on Playstation at release.

@dasd2 Man... I would absolutely love for the PSVR to be officially PC compatible. The PC VR market needs some new competition. It grown massively stale at this point.

Looks cool! I'm excited and will probably pick it up day one (I'm a big fan of sonic). But man, Sonic looks so out of place in the world. If they wanted to go this style with the world. Maybe they could have made Sonic look similar to his movie version, and give him a nice fur shader.

@UltimateOtaku91 Netflix has released at least released one console game before. Stranger Thing 3: The Game. Like @awp69 said, they bought Night School Studio which is planning on releasing Oxenfree 2 this year, so we could probably get another trailer for that.

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@GADG3Tx87 Nintendo buying Sega would cripple half of sega game output. Lmao. Sega has a big presence on PC with Total War, Warhammer, Endless, and Company of Heros. At that point, RIP Creative Assembly, Amplitude, and Relic

@Bismarck Let's hope that DirectStorage (Smart Access Storage, RTX I/O.... etc) ends up being the real deal. If it is, PC gamers are in for a treat once it and PCIe gen 5 SSD release at the end of the year.

@Nem Yes... Let's compared content support to litteraly the top 3 mmos on the market. No mmo is gonna compare content support wise to WoW, FFXIV, or even ESO.

@mucc Un... Yes. It no different than you plugging your PS5 into a 1080P/60FPS tv. Your PS5 isn't suddenly gonna start playing the last gen version of a game just cause it plugged into a 1080P TV.

Hell, people have their PS5 hooked up to CRTs.

@MarcG420 No. The Series S still offer a next gen feature set. It may be lower resolution than a Series X, but it not a complete slouch, and still a significant step up from PS4 and Xbox One.

@MarcG420 Whether or not the games are running the Series S version of games vs X is questionable. But generally the X version of games arent massive night and difference of the S versions.

The thing is that Gamepass/xCloud is allowing you to play a next gen version of the game while Sony isn't.

@get2sammyb They already finished the upgrade to Series X blades.

@MarcG420 Flight Simulator is exclusive to the Series consoles and is playable through xCloud. Also games like FH5 allows you to switch between graphics options which where only available on Series consoles.

@Nem I also play it, and been playing since the original closed beta. But the support isn't that bad. Lol. Sure it isn't seeing massive support. But it a 10 plus year old game, and it support isn't nearly as bad as many other mmo that reach this life span.

It being a PC only game doesn't matter as Sony had plenty of PC only titles. Planetside 1, Everquest 1-2...etc.

@Nem Also what do you mean those games don't matter matter from a Sony PoV. SWTOR is a live service game... Sims with endless amount of digital content updates could easily be considered a live services game. Sony/Playstation is trying to break into the live service market.

Last year Jim Ryan was want to explore the mobile market more. This year Sony Group CFO Hiroki Totoki has stated that the company plans to release mobile games using PlayStation IPs. Popcap is a successful mobile game developer.

@Nem The game just saw a new expansion this year. Most MMOs don't make it to 10 years. If it wasn't doing well. I doubt Bioware Austin and the game would still be a thing if it wasn't doing well.

@Nem While bioware may be ruin in your eye. They still being massive massive income through The Old Republic. They also have Popcap with Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled. Sim still brings in a ton of cash... etc

@NomNom I doubt Disney would really want to return to the gaming industry. Especially after Epic Mickey 2 and Disney infinity. They want all the benefits and none of the hardship. Which is why they started licensing out and stopped being a publisher.

@Juanalf Give it a couple more years, and WB will be selling DC to Disney after this whole Warner Bros. Discovery thing goes up in smoke.

@Zenszulu While that is true. A lower tier system can be made out of bin-out chips that can't match PS5 standards. It can be shipped with lower CU, shaders, clock speeds... etc. Which in turn help supply of PS5s cause now you just don't have chips just going to waste.

I love the whole idea of the metaverse concept, not that Facebook trash, but I have no interest in a Sony, Microsoft... etc ran 'metaverse'. I've spent thousands of hours play stuff like Second Life and VRChat.

These companies are ran by public opinion, shareholders, and restrictive ToS agreements. They'll end up limiting the massive possibilities. It needs to be an extremely open platform with tons of user created content and game modes. Avatars shouldn't be limited to these companies terrible character creator. If I wanna walk around as a furry in Mjolnir armour so be it.

@NEStalgia "weird proprietary, broken janky engines" you basically just call out the entirety of Japanese game development.

@NEStalgia I would put massive "" around correctly for the PC version. The game had massive issues, and performance still isn't great. I just recently tried playing the game on my PC, and the framerate is all over the place. I was glad when KH moved from the Luminous Engine to UE4, and I'm glad that FFXVI is using a completely different engine as well. Hopefully Forspolen finally does the Engine justice.

@GADG3Tx87 Ubisoft + has been around since 2019, originally Uplay +, and it only now finally making it way to consoles. So it been PC exclusive, and was never originally planned to come to console. With the way console are. It better to not directly compete with manufacturer and just integrate into any established service. But this allows people who are already subbed to the service on other platforms to advantage of it now on Playstation.

Not surprising. Minus the cost of the base game, expansions, and monthly sub. The FFXIV faithful drops thousands of dollars into this game weekly due to the cash shop. I have a discord/FC member that fantasia basically every week, and those things aren't cheap.

@The_Moose One necromorph get picked up the Valor, but it didn't complete ransacked the entire ship alone. All it takes is one necromorph to kill an unexpected soldier or find any dead body to turn into 100 necromorph running through the ship. The necromorph are basically the flood. Lmao

@The_Moose Okay... So yeah. That was the military ship. But it exactly wasn't one necromorph. If I remember the Valor crew did well holding their own, but lost control of the ship, and pull along side to close to Ishimura. Eventually the horde board the Valor from the Ishimura, and that when they lost ground.

@The_Moose USG Kellion wasn't a vessel. It was a shuttle with like 5 crew. Lmao. 2 of which was a computer specialist and Engineer (Issac)... and the others minus Hammond was the pilots... One was killed by a slasher and other was kill by... I don't remember. Effectively, there was actually really no soliders aboard any of the ships.

@The_Moose Well the Ishimura wasn't a military vessel... It was a mining and Medical research vessel. So there was very few/if any ACTUAL military personnel, and mostly basic security personnel.

Also that one necromorph quickly turned into twenty once it gained access to the Morgue.

@UltimateOtaku91 Fortnite definitely isn't the one to blame for this. There was tons of live service games before "Fortnite". As the "Fortnite" we got was a last ditch effort to save a failed ip so Epic jumped on BR live service train that had already left the station.

@nomither6 Sprint has been apart of the base kit since 4, so that a very long time to not be fond of something. If you're not fond of that... Nothing is gonna please you. Lmao.

But you're the first I've heard say that Halo Infinite just sucks. Most people enjoy the core experience of Infinite. With many saying it the tightest feeling halo to-date. Which I agree with after spending 50+ hrs on multiplayer alone. The main issue is lack content and Playlist, but that doesn't make a game suck.

Again people are using Halo infinite as a reason for Game Pass issues. Halo Infinite was gonna have major issues regardless of it launching on Game Pass or not. 343i is just generally incapable of releasing games without major issues.

Microsoft just needs to revitalized 343i as the licenser of all Halo-related properties only, and not have them develop anything.

@nomither6 Halo 4 campaign was fantastic. The multiplayer was straight garbage tho.

And that why people are saying Infinite is 343 best halo to date. Infinite campaign while a step back from 4 was better than 5 ( they wasted so much potential with how blue team was treated ). Infinite multiplayer while a step back from 5, at it core, is better than 4 multiplayer.

Halo is about the full package. You can't have a good campaign and terrible multiplayer; or good multiplayer and terrible campaign. They have to be balanced, and Infinite is the most balanced even if it mediocre.

Unfortunately infinite biggest issue with it campaign is that all the cool stuff happens off screen in a comic book. Lmao.