@RevGaming I doubt platinum games would be interested in selling as they've just recently received massive funding from Tencent, and is looking into self publishing. If wanted to bought up. Tencent would have probably bought them by now
If Microsoft was willing to spend $70 billion on this. Think of how much they will be willing to spend on other studios and companies with actual useful IPs and games. The suits and investors of other companies are probably now opening up to the idea of selling. Zenimax is probably upset that they only managed to get $7 billion.
Even if Sony attempted to buy a major company. These companies will now probably be asking for more money than they are worth, and they will probably be calling up M$; and will be asking for a couple billion more than what Sony could ever afford.
There is a quote that sum up the last few purchases from Microsoft perfectly. What Sony did last gen was awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
@Saitama117 It may not turn a profit for a while... But it not like Microsoft is bleeding money. They'll make the $70 billion in other ways before the deal is final.
Of course people on a PS fan site is still gonna buy Playstation consoles. We really need to be asking the random guy in video game section of Wal-Mart if he can deal with losing CoD.
@NEStalgia Hahaha... I had a surface pro, and it wireless and Bluetooth issues was why I actually got rid of it for the MacBook. I also just picked up a Zephyrus G14 and had some Bluetooth issues with my wireless buds, mouse and controller that was actually just straight up caused by a Microsoft driver issue. Was able to fix it by uninstalling the driver. Wasn't the receiver or the drivers for receiver. Just a Microsoft issue
@NEStalgia Yeah... That sound like you had a trash bluetooth receiver which is unfortunately common in most pre build system, or just low end motherboards. I used services like xCloud, PS Now, and GeForce for 99% of my gaming now on my M1 MacBook, and never had any particular issues stemming from input latency due to bluetooth.
@Shinnok789 As a PC gamer I hope that Sony never adds any sort of DRM like Denuvo. Even with Denuvo games will still be cracked. All you're doing is harming the people that purchased and supported the company day 1 with bad performance. That does far harm more than the people who pirate the game. As now you just turned people off buying period or push more people to pirate the game.
@ATaco You act like PC gamers care... PC gamers are use to waiting an untold amount of years for a game to come to their platform. They can wait two years to play the sequel.
The one who can't wait are the one who was planning on buying a PS5 already.
Considering that people are still playing the first game 7 years later, and it is still getting content. The developer probably figured that diehard Dying Light fans will be glad for 500 hr games. Everyone else... Not so much.
@Dezzy70 2022 will probably see a lot many game from Xbox other than just Starfield. Forza Motorsport 8 is probably a given. There are games that been in development for a few years like Everwild and State of Decay 3. Redfall is set for Summer 2022 release. There also of maybe Gears 6 or Hellblade but I'm not holding my breath for these 2...
I would love for Xbox to come out on stage and give us 2022 release date for Perfect Dark, Fable, and Avowed, as well as the Indiana Jones game tho.
Discord integration will great. I have a FFXIV FC that is all just PC players that only use discord, so it a major hassle having to use a completely separate device to communicate.
@Nightcrawler71 Considering the issue that RDR2 had when it was ported to PC with some of the game logic being tied to framerate. I'm not surprised we haven't seen a 60FPS patch yet on consoles. A lot of the game is hard-coded to that 30FPS cap.
Been playing Halo Infinite through xCloud on my MacBook Pro M1. Definitely 343i best Halo game, my second favorite of the main numbered games, my third favorite in the mainline franchise, and my fifth favorite in the franchise.
@JAMes-BroWWWn Gamepass can help boost sales of game that already reached their peak after release. It not gonna help boost sale of a game releasing day 1, and isn't gonna leave the service.
@UltimateOtaku91 If you was a Sony fan. You wouldn't care. Cause even if it became an "Xbox Exclusive" you could still easily play it on PC, or on TVs, Android device, iOS devices, MacOS devices, Linux devices through xCloud.
Only fanboys have the kind of mindset that can excuse Tencent buying a company as along as game are released on Playstation.
@NEStalgia They haven't been exotic cars for like that last 5 years. They're mustang common where I'm from now. Basically can't throw a rock within hitting one now.
@Phostachio Unfortunately the trust system isn't available until Shadow Bringers, so you still have to go through ARR, HW, and SB using the duty finder... Unless you grind a character up to level 80, and max the gear. At that point, basically the entire game can more or less be solo minus the ARR raid dungeons.
@nessisonett I wouldn't say that FFXIV doesn't specifically cater to whale. Most if not all of the big 4 seater mounts are only on mog station and those are $30+. Want that cute dote emote... mog station. Want any of the past event items that you missed... mog station. Want to change your character appearance beside basics... mog station.
Sure you can play ffxiv from start to finish without paying a penny, but if you plan on playing that game long term, and want to get really involved in the community as well. Prepare to spend some money eventually.
@Yaycandy Yeah. The Metacritic score for FM5 was a 79 with a user score of 6.0. GT6 was a 81 with a user score of 8.0... FM5 was definitely a weak point for the franchise. The blame for that could be due to not enough time since they was launching at the time of the Xbox One release. The recent ones have all reviewed better.
@tinCAT-zero I wouldn’t they haven't done any different. They've changed the way in term of how the festival is handled and presented. Bring in more of story line with characters, cutscenes... etc. Your character now isn't some no face new racer. It imports a bit of your character information from the FH4, and presents this game as true sequel to FH4. Making references to your character time in the UK. Unlike past games where FH1-3 was stand-alone, and your racer was different from the last game.
@Colour They would have still monetize the hell out of the game at $60. At least they understand the base game isn't worth $60 or $70 unlike another game cough BF2042 cough
Sweet! The first one was one of the first games I played on my PS5. Super excited to pick this one as well... Granted the campaign sound it like basically supposed to be a based of the events of Jurassic World 2-3 so I'm surprised they didn't delay to bank of the hype of the new film.
Hopefully they can over looks this misstep and get back to what they do best which making excellent single player games. I'm also excited to see what they bring to the table with the Perfect Dark reboot
It nice that Sony finally remembered that this game released on PS4. The marketing last year for this game was trash. In the sense that it was only really marketed as a PS5 game, not a PS4 and PS5 game. Every trailer and tv trailer shown was always captured on PS5 and had a massive PS5 advert at the end.... with a tiny * that whispered 'Also on PS4'.
Gotta please all those sad children who didn't get to play miles morales last year. Due to their parents thinking that they need to buy a PS5 in order to get the game cause there was never any actual ads for PS4 version.
@wiiware Yes. And that power will never help it sell 90 million+ units like the Switch. The system is completely out of price range for most consumers.
Valve could never release a box that can compete with Sony and Microsoft in the price range that the Series X and PS5 offers.
@Trajan What!?!? Even if we don't take in consideration load times... etc. Literally one off the games they tested, Jedi Fallen Order, takes up basically almost the entire internal storage of the 64GB by it self... Good luck trying to put CoD on that.
This isn't like the Switch where it'll get it own downsized ports to fit the hardware, or have physical cartridges to bypass the storage limitations. Unless you're gonna play indies non stop. You'll be buying a decent sized micro SD day 1.
Also this is PC not PS5... So game sizes aren't getting smaller.
Will still be picking this up. I been wanting to try out this franchise, but I was way too young when the originals released on the PS2, and I didn't own a WiiU like most sane people... So never got the chance to experience this one. But I will probably be picking it up on Nintendo Switch, so i can hide under my bed covers when I get too scared XD.
@Trajan 64GB eMMC (PCIe Gen 2) vs 256GB (PCIe Gen 3) is a massive difference especially if you even want to think about using the Steam Deck as a AAA machine.
@UltimateOtaku91 Those millions of people knows much little content they was paying. People just don't care when it comes to things they like... People just also have really low standards when it comes to anime games cause the bar have been sat so low that stuff like this is decent.
@wiiware Valve can't even get the handheld steam deck in actual competing price range with the Switch. It $200 more than a switch lite, $100 more than a Switch and $50 more than the OLED. That just for the terrible base model... if you want a decent steam deck you're looking at $530-600 basically the price of the next gen console.
If Valve made a tv only steam deck. It'll will definitely be way out of the majority of console gamers price range, so Sony and Microsoft had nothing to worry about.
@Golem25 Battlefield is finally embracing how their player play the game... No body on this God green earth plays Battlefield like a serious military shooter. Just look at the any game play footage online or highlight reel... All you ever see is people running around like it CoD, and doing exactly what you see in the trailer.
@ScottyG CDPR was already never releasing a game without a delay... The Witcher 3 was delayed twice and still had issue, and CyberPunk 2077 had like 4 delays
Good thing I had pre-ordered my the moment they came available. The black look so much better, and I won't have to deal the yellowish tint that old white plastic gets in the future.
At this point. There is no way the sequel is gonna live up to the original Dying Light, and the developers know it... They will continue to milk the success of this game dry, to off set the possibility of the sequel of not live up to success of the first game.
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Re: EA Is the Next Major Publisher Tipped for a Takeover
I dont see Ubisoft being bought out as Vivendi has been trying to buy them for several years, and the Guillemots have pushed back heavily against it.
Re: EA Is the Next Major Publisher Tipped for a Takeover
@RevGaming I doubt platinum games would be interested in selling as they've just recently received massive funding from Tencent, and is looking into self publishing. If wanted to bought up. Tencent would have probably bought them by now
Re: EA Is the Next Major Publisher Tipped for a Takeover
@Stoffinator Buying Epic Games would mean dealing with Tencent. Does Sony have the cash flow to face off against Tencent?
Re: These Are the Franchises PS5, PS4 May Lose to Activision Blizzard Buyout
If Microsoft was willing to spend $70 billion on this. Think of how much they will be willing to spend on other studios and companies with actual useful IPs and games. The suits and investors of other companies are probably now opening up to the idea of selling. Zenimax is probably upset that they only managed to get $7 billion.
Even if Sony attempted to buy a major company. These companies will now probably be asking for more money than they are worth, and they will probably be calling up M$; and will be asking for a couple billion more than what Sony could ever afford.
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
@Saitama117 It's what they do best? Based on what? Something that happened 15 years ago?
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
There is a quote that sum up the last few purchases from Microsoft perfectly. What Sony did last gen was awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
@Saitama117 It may not turn a profit for a while... But it not like Microsoft is bleeding money. They'll make the $70 billion in other ways before the deal is final.
Re: Poll: Would You Still Buy PlayStation Consoles Without Activision Blizzard Games?
Of course people on a PS fan site is still gonna buy Playstation consoles. We really need to be asking the random guy in video game section of Wal-Mart if he can deal with losing CoD.
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
We got Microsoft buying up gaming companies and we got Sony buying up anime companies. Both companies are doing the same thing.
EDIT: Square Enix is probably definitely on the purchasing block for Sony. They're a big gaming company and a big producer of Anime.
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
@Madvibes A gaming laptop? Unless you playing on Linux you may as well be playing on a MS console.
Re: Xbox Now Owns Legendary PlayStation Series Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon
@Sakisa They now own Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions. So maybe we may get something new from Banjo out of this.
Re: Sony's Own First-Party Studios Championed PC Ports
@NEStalgia Hahaha... I had a surface pro, and it wireless and Bluetooth issues was why I actually got rid of it for the MacBook. I also just picked up a Zephyrus G14 and had some Bluetooth issues with my wireless buds, mouse and controller that was actually just straight up caused by a Microsoft driver issue. Was able to fix it by uninstalling the driver. Wasn't the receiver or the drivers for receiver. Just a Microsoft issue
Re: Sony's Own First-Party Studios Championed PC Ports
@NEStalgia Yeah... That sound like you had a trash bluetooth receiver which is unfortunately common in most pre build system, or just low end motherboards. I used services like xCloud, PS Now, and GeForce for 99% of my gaming now on my M1 MacBook, and never had any particular issues stemming from input latency due to bluetooth.
Re: God of War PC Nearing 75,000 Concurrent Players on Steam
@Shinnok789 As a PC gamer I hope that Sony never adds any sort of DRM like Denuvo. Even with Denuvo games will still be cracked. All you're doing is harming the people that purchased and supported the company day 1 with bad performance. That does far harm more than the people who pirate the game. As now you just turned people off buying period or push more people to pirate the game.
Re: God of War PC Closes on 60,000 Concurrent Players on Steam
@Jaz007 Both Nvidia and AMD offer the last 1-30 minutes footage capture via their driver software and windows 10-11 both have that feature built in.
Re: God of War PC Scales Steam Sales Charts After Glowing Reviews
@ATaco Port begging means they want the game to just come to the platform. People dont care if it next week or 5 years from now.
Re: God of War PC Scales Steam Sales Charts After Glowing Reviews
@ATaco You act like PC gamers care... PC gamers are use to waiting an untold amount of years for a game to come to their platform. They can wait two years to play the sequel.
The one who can't wait are the one who was planning on buying a PS5 already.
Re: Dying Light 2 Takes 500 Hours to 'Fully Complete', Official Twitter Has to Clarify
Considering that people are still playing the first game 7 years later, and it is still getting content. The developer probably figured that diehard Dying Light fans will be glad for 500 hr games. Everyone else... Not so much.
Re: No Plans for Ubisoft+ on PS5, PS4 At This Time, Rainbow Six Extraction Full-Price on PlayStation
@Dezzy70 2022 will probably see a lot many game from Xbox other than just Starfield. Forza Motorsport 8 is probably a given. There are games that been in development for a few years like Everwild and State of Decay 3. Redfall is set for Summer 2022 release. There also of maybe Gears 6 or Hellblade but I'm not holding my breath for these 2...
I would love for Xbox to come out on stage and give us 2022 release date for Perfect Dark, Fable, and Avowed, as well as the Indiana Jones game tho.
Re: Soapbox: How Discord Will Change the Way We Play PS5, PS4 Together in 2022
Discord integration will great. I have a FFXIV FC that is all just PC players that only use discord, so it a major hassle having to use a completely separate device to communicate.
Re: Assassin's Creed Origins 60FPS Patch Likely as Ubisoft Investigates
@Nightcrawler71 Considering the issue that RDR2 had when it was ported to PC with some of the game logic being tied to framerate. I'm not surprised we haven't seen a 60FPS patch yet on consoles. A lot of the game is hard-coded to that 30FPS cap.
Re: UK Sales Charts: GTA Trilogy, Among Us Sell Best on PlayStation
Been playing Halo Infinite through xCloud on my MacBook Pro M1. Definitely 343i best Halo game, my second favorite of the main numbered games, my third favorite in the mainline franchise, and my fifth favorite in the franchise.
Re: UK Sales Charts: GTA Trilogy, Among Us Sell Best on PlayStation
@JAMes-BroWWWn Gamepass can help boost sales of game that already reached their peak after release. It not gonna help boost sale of a game releasing day 1, and isn't gonna leave the service.
Re: Tencent Buys Back 4 Blood Developer Turtle Rock Studios
@UltimateOtaku91 If you was a Sony fan. You wouldn't care. Cause even if it became an "Xbox Exclusive" you could still easily play it on PC, or on TVs, Android device, iOS devices, MacOS devices, Linux devices through xCloud.
Only fanboys have the kind of mindset that can excuse Tencent buying a company as along as game are released on Playstation.
Re: Gran Turismo 7 Achieves 'Tangible' Realism on PS5 with Haptics, Ray Tracing, More
How long till this game is released on PC?
Re: Random: Play Sonic at Electric Speeds When Original Game Comes to All Tesla Vehicles
@NEStalgia They haven't been exotic cars for like that last 5 years. They're mustang common where I'm from now. Basically can't throw a rock within hitting one now.
Re: Random: Play Sonic at Electric Speeds When Original Game Comes to All Tesla Vehicles
@NEStalgia Bruh, where do you live that a Tesla cost $100k...?
Re: God of War PC Has More Detailed Assets, Higher-Resolution Shadows, and More
@Shinnok789 Because Nvidia has money, and honestly... Nvidia DLSS from my experience come closer to offering a native image
Re: Publisher Take-Two Forces It Takes Two Dev Hazelight to Abandon Title Trademark
@Perturbator Well it actually Zenimax who filled the lawsuit against Mojang. But yeah
Re: UK Sales Charts: Black Friday Discounts a Boon for Guardians of the Galaxy, FIFA 22
GoTG is a fantastic game. I bought it on launch day, and I bought it again for PC to play over GeForce Now.
Re: Marvel MMO in Development at DC Universe Online Team
@Phostachio Unfortunately the trust system isn't available until Shadow Bringers, so you still have to go through ARR, HW, and SB using the duty finder... Unless you grind a character up to level 80, and max the gear. At that point, basically the entire game can more or less be solo minus the ARR raid dungeons.
Re: Marvel MMO in Development at DC Universe Online Team
@nessisonett I wouldn't say that FFXIV doesn't specifically cater to whale. Most if not all of the big 4 seater mounts are only on mog station and those are $30+. Want that cute dote emote... mog station. Want any of the past event items that you missed... mog station. Want to change your character appearance beside basics... mog station.
Sure you can play ffxiv from start to finish without paying a penny, but if you plan on playing that game long term, and want to get really involved in the community as well. Prepare to spend some money eventually.
Re: All Marvel's Avengers Cosmetics Pegged at $3,400
It crazy to thing one of hand we Marvel's Avengers and then on the other hand we have Marvel's GoTG. Both games handled by the same publisher.
Re: Gran Turismo 7's Tracks Achieve Tangible Realism on PS5, PS4
@Yaycandy Yeah. The Metacritic score for FM5 was a 79 with a user score of 6.0. GT6 was a 81 with a user score of 8.0... FM5 was definitely a weak point for the franchise. The blame for that could be due to not enough time since they was launching at the time of the Xbox One release. The recent ones have all reviewed better.
Re: Gran Turismo 7's Tracks Achieve Tangible Realism on PS5, PS4
@tinCAT-zero I wouldn’t they haven't done any different. They've changed the way in term of how the festival is handled and presented. Bring in more of story line with characters, cutscenes... etc. Your character now isn't some no face new racer. It imports a bit of your character information from the FH4, and presents this game as true sequel to FH4. Making references to your character time in the UK. Unlike past games where FH1-3 was stand-alone, and your racer was different from the last game.
Re: Rainbow Six Extraction Will Be a $40 Game, Out 20th January
@Colour They would have still monetize the hell out of the game at $60. At least they understand the base game isn't worth $60 or $70 unlike another game cough BF2042 cough
Re: Jurassic World Evolution 2 (PS5) - Dinosaur Park Builder Sequel Delivers
Sweet! The first one was one of the first games I played on my PS5. Super excited to pick this one as well... Granted the campaign sound it like basically supposed to be a based of the events of Jurassic World 2-3 so I'm surprised they didn't delay to bank of the hype of the new film.
Re: Square Enix Insinuates Crystal Dynamics Was the Wrong Dev for Marvel's Avengers
Hopefully they can over looks this misstep and get back to what they do best which making excellent single player games. I'm also excited to see what they bring to the table with the Perfect Dark reboot
Re: Sony Uploads PS4 Trailer for Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Approaches 1 Million Views
It nice that Sony finally remembered that this game released on PS4. The marketing last year for this game was trash. In the sense that it was only really marketed as a PS5 game, not a PS4 and PS5 game. Every trailer and tv trailer shown was always captured on PS5 and had a massive PS5 advert at the end.... with a tiny * that whispered 'Also on PS4'.
Gotta please all those sad children who didn't get to play miles morales last year. Due to their parents thinking that they need to buy a PS5 in order to get the game cause there was never any actual ads for PS4 version.
Re: Studio Led by Amy Hennig Making a Marvel Game
@MFTWrecks So basically X-Men: Destiny
Re: Rumour: Sackboy: A Big Adventure Is Making the Jump to PC
@wiiware Yes. And that power will never help it sell 90 million+ units like the Switch. The system is completely out of price range for most consumers.
Valve could never release a box that can compete with Sony and Microsoft in the price range that the Series X and PS5 offers.
Re: Rumour: Sackboy: A Big Adventure Is Making the Jump to PC
@Trajan What!?!? Even if we don't take in consideration load times... etc. Literally one off the games they tested, Jedi Fallen Order, takes up basically almost the entire internal storage of the 64GB by it self... Good luck trying to put CoD on that.
This isn't like the Switch where it'll get it own downsized ports to fit the hardware, or have physical cartridges to bypass the storage limitations. Unless you're gonna play indies non stop. You'll be buying a decent sized micro SD day 1.
Also this is PC not PS5... So game sizes aren't getting smaller.
Re: Mini Review: Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (PS5) - Remaster Is More of a Trick Than Treat
Will still be picking this up. I been wanting to try out this franchise, but I was way too young when the originals released on the PS2, and I didn't own a WiiU like most sane people... So never got the chance to experience this one. But I will probably be picking it up on Nintendo Switch, so i can hide under my bed covers when I get too scared XD.
Re: Rumour: Sackboy: A Big Adventure Is Making the Jump to PC
@Trajan 64GB eMMC (PCIe Gen 2) vs 256GB (PCIe Gen 3) is a massive difference especially if you even want to think about using the Steam Deck as a AAA machine.
Re: Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles Cuts Through 1 Million Sales
@UltimateOtaku91 Those millions of people knows much little content they was paying. People just don't care when it comes to things they like... People just also have really low standards when it comes to anime games cause the bar have been sat so low that stuff like this is decent.
Re: Rumour: Sackboy: A Big Adventure Is Making the Jump to PC
@wiiware Valve can't even get the handheld steam deck in actual competing price range with the Switch. It $200 more than a switch lite, $100 more than a Switch and $50 more than the OLED. That just for the terrible base model... if you want a decent steam deck you're looking at $530-600 basically the price of the next gen console.
If Valve made a tv only steam deck. It'll will definitely be way out of the majority of console gamers price range, so Sony and Microsoft had nothing to worry about.
Re: NFL QB Tom Brady Is Still MVP in Battlefield 2042
@Golem25 Battlefield is finally embracing how their player play the game... No body on this God green earth plays Battlefield like a serious military shooter. Just look at the any game play footage online or highlight reel... All you ever see is people running around like it CoD, and doing exactly what you see in the trailer.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3 PS5 Versions Delayed into 2022
@ScottyG CDPR was already never releasing a game without a delay... The Witcher 3 was delayed twice and still had issue, and CyberPunk 2077 had like 4 delays
Re: Sony Threatens to Sue Company That Goaded It to Sue Over Black PS5 Replacement Plates
Good thing I had pre-ordered my the moment they came available. The black look so much better, and I won't have to deal the yellowish tint that old white plastic gets in the future.
Re: Dying Light Receiving a PS5 Patch in the Future
At this point. There is no way the sequel is gonna live up to the original Dying Light, and the developers know it... They will continue to milk the success of this game dry, to off set the possibility of the sequel of not live up to success of the first game.