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@twitchtvpat I bet we get Pragmata 2 and 3 before this...

This is akin to every other operational company coming out and announcing their employees are in fact working on projects today...

@Rezium I was about to say you know we are fishing at the bottom of the barrel when we are concerned with what Gamestop thinks about anything.

@Dart-TheRedDragoon and you wonder why conspiracy content is the highest paid thing in social media...

Woah woah woah. You mean the internet isn't a place where we wait for all the facts before we hurl accusations? No, I don't want to be a part of that internet. Sounds lame.

@Balaam_ with what we know about modern day Bethesda it is definitely the latter.

Nope. Remaster is literal wasted money to me at this point. If it's not a full remake, then it's a hard pass at this point.

@DennisReynolds I don't think this game gets that much hate unless you consider it hate to think it's one of the most average games ever made.

Ah, the 'player numbers' when a game doesn't actually do well instead of units sold, or even active player base numbers, or the amount of people who spent more than an hour with it.

With The Odyssey wrapped they could see if Elliot Page could fill in for this role now?

@PercyChuggs that doesn’t account for inflation. In 2018 a ticket price was on average $9. Now it’s $11. So they are trending upwards with raw dollars, but doing so selling far fewer tickets. So that is why you can still see emptier theaters. If you actually break it down, the movie theater industry is doing better than the last few years, but it’s hardly a true return to form, at least for now.

This feels like another Sony title I can wait till a first sale for. I’m a big Wolverine fan but this game honestly doesn't look that inspired. I honestly don’t see anything from Sony in the near future that looks like day 1 anymore.

@ShadowRJ Sony takes 30% of all sales from the digital store front (includes MTXs even). They would never lock that behind a paywall because they would lose millions of players who spend money on free to play games, and tons of impulse buying, all from non-subs. It sounds nice for a doom and gloom post, but it's wildly unrealistic it would ever actually happen. The amount of money non-subs are probably already spending on the store front outweigh a monthly sub.

@NimrodNation20 no one tell him most of the games he buys come from corporate companies too, lol. He probably doesn't understand how many corporations he supports himself on a daily basis. But I am sure he supports the good corporations and you support all the bad ones...

This is ignoring the fact that retailer sites are notorious for not having very good anti-bot protection and I imagine a ton of these were bought up by resellers and those sites will be flooded with copies selling for twice as much when this launches. While it's true there is still a very small market for physical disc owners, this reeks of scalpers more than actual players.

Don’t they all start out saying this until the numbers come in?

@Rich33 threats about withholding purchases that only have physical are weaker given over 80% of purchases are already digital. If you think in 2028 that 20% of holdouts are just going to quit gaming or go fully PC, you're on one. If anyone here was going to go full PC, they would have already done it, because there is honestly no reason to console game if you're comfortable with a PC. In short, the holding out is a veiled threat that no one will stick with.

@TheDarts Right. All it shows is an ongoing interest in trophy hunting given the only reason it spiked was due to the platinum becoming unattainable soon. I don't think it means people wouldn't be interested in a new inFamous game. But this specific case does not support what the article is trying to say with that statement.

How are there so many 8/10 games in the supposed darkest timeline of gaming? The worst part about this timeline is just the lack of actual time there is to play everything...

If only that third word in the headline didn't exist...

Fingers crossed this is more like Stellar Blade or DMC and less like Lost Soul Aside. I won't get my hopes up though. These action titles are so hit or miss.

You can't say you produce "acclaimed original IP" as your studio is being kicked out the door because you can't sell any copies. Sure, if you think journalists get to determine what games get to be considered "acclaimed", but in the real world where it actually matters, you have to earn that by more than just minor internet praise. It just sounds goofy to say we are an acclaimed studio but we also might not be able to even keep the lights on. They might very well be better suited to just be a support studio too.

@PercyChuggs haha, so buy the digital version to play if the physical holds value. For the irony alone that would be epic.

If Bud Light could come back, this is childs play for Sony. What we know is the average person forgets things quickly, and no one on Twitter buys anything.

This feels like something you’d see in a sketch comedy show, lol. I don't know which group of people seem more sad in this?

It feels like they put a bunch of words in a hat and just picked the first 4 that came out for the name. I fear this game won't last long.

Unfortunatley suing someone in 2026 doesn't mean as much as people think it does. The majority of these kinds of lawsuits never work out the way people who are sue happy think they will. I am going to sue you is about as common as saying hello at this point.

@Balaam_ I am going to guess you can't even fully upgrade your gear and abilities without the second play through too. It seems to be common with these more generic action type games because they are rarely ever worth a second play through. I thought Black Myth was a great game for one play through but having to go through it again to finish the platinum was tedious.

The only reason this won’t hurt PS5 is Xbox still has no first party exclusives worth having. How ironic the system that produces games no one wants is putting them on discs a handful of physical owners want.

@nessisonett when literally everything is somewhat protested now days you’re bound to luck into one of them working. 1 down and only 4,000 more to try and win.

It’s almost like internet twitter chuds who never spend any money and actual consumers who just buy whatever looks cool are two different groups of people with one group being significantly larger than the other.

Weird they are talking sales and not player numbers now, lol.

Translation, they are probably good enough developers to not want to let go of but don’t have anything for them to actually work on yet…

Black Flag. It feels good to relive what Ubisoft used to be like.

When you see videos like this, it is hard to imagine how tough that actually is, lol: https://youtube.com/shorts/e9tdlNFABJQ?is=yv3eAkoSHYft7rWF

@Old-Red Yeah, but the figure still shows 80% of people will buy digital media, lol. It doesn't matter if people WOULD have bought it had they both been released at the same time. If they can see +80% in digital sales, that's all that's needed to show they don't have to release a physical disc and still make sales. Understanding that doesn't make you a shill. It just means you understand what's actually happening.

Let me translate for you all. It means it's not actually worth $60+.

Transparency International ranks Brazil 107th out of 180 countries in its Corruption Perceptions Index. So, yeah, this is not our savor, lol. This is why you don't fall for bureaucracy to fix problems. Even in the states, thinking that politicians honestly care about this issue and don't have many ulterior motives is downright foolish.

Hell yeah. Early access to the same games that go on sale every other month. Winning.

@NoPhysicalNoBuy123 if anyone wouldn’t give a crap about physical media for consoles i5 would be Japan. Very small console market.

@NoPhysicalNoBuy123 to be fair almost no one would know that because no one watches award shows, lol…

@Malastridr seeing a 3 year old call out 4 year olds is wild…

Insider Gaming could have just asked ChatGPT for that quote…

Oof. What’s Sony gunna do if those 3,000 push fans don’t buy a PS6? Company over, lol.

This looks like a mobile game... and a bad one at that...

@CheesyOatcake this is the most smooth brain comment I have read on this site in a long time...

@gordonps because some people think the government is some kind of non-human, higher power being that isn't just the same kind of dirt bag humans than inhabit the private sector.

I like the contrast of multiple studio layoffs and closures over the last few weeks to an article about a studio that’s taken 8 years to still produce nothing…

I feel like this article was written to garner sympathy, but after reading it, it makes more sense why it’s happening. They claim they can’t fire anyone because the onboarding process is outdated and so instead of evolving and updating your process you think it just gives you unlimited job security? You create a “vigil” for people fired like it’s on par with dying? And all this after seeing what Bethesda and ID have produced over the last 5 years?

Bummer for all 10 people hyped for that Avowed sequel, lol.