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Bold assumption it's for PS5 if it's early development.

Big Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3 energy there. Flash a JPG and say see ya in a few years, we were working on nothing until now.

Also, all those rumours of a God of War Remake a while back, and they clearly looked at those and went....oh yeah, we COULD do that!

So what was Santa Monica doing for the past four years?

Also I look forward to God of War Trilogy Remake on PS6 in 6 years. I thought the industry learned from flashing a JPG and saying "Now In Development"

And this is the benefit to building and optimising for the lower spec first. You get better performance.

@PuppetMaster That was physical copies only, and it was reported as being widely out of stock across the country. Digitally it's topping the eShop in several regions.

Safe to say it's done well enough for SquareEnix.

He said the physical copies won't be delayed.

Because there won't be any to delay. Kekw

PC has the least barriers to entry.

PS5 and Switch 2 are the market leaders.

You know it's bad when the Steam Deck, an option that's only sold about 4m units, is more popular with developers than Xbox.

At least the Wii U and Vita died quickly.

I mean, I get it, given the licensing involved, and the fact it took 9 years to get this collection on a Nintendo platform is probably the more insane story.

Most likely whatever Project M is.

Must be the Switch 2 holding the game back. For shame.

@ThroughTheIris56 They do. Its how we get the spinoffs, and more directly, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.

So you know.....not great.

@ThroughTheIris56 They just clarified in other interviews, that GameFreak themselves provided the concept, management and direction, and the actual number of GameFreak staff working on the game is minimal. It's been confirmed to be developed by being outsourced to many other companies.

So that explains that.

designed to capture the heart and humor that defined the original trilogy while bringing contemporary storytelling, world design, and player agency to the forefront.

Such as companions in your ear every 10 seconds telling you how to finish the puzzle, yellow paint in case you get lost, a map full of icons and busywork, and generative AI because its Microsoft.

And for true player agency, when the game inevitably doesn't meet expectations and they need more AI money, you'll get free player agency in playing something else as they shut the studio.

And yet, somehow, Beyond Good and Evil 2 remains in development.

Somehow.

The fact Bubsy refuses to shut up and die while other franchises sit rotting is insane to me.

Guess there's truth to the old saying about publicity.

I love Kratos' beard in that image. Looks like plastic on an action figure.

At least when NSP got Ridge Racer 64 that was helped by being....Ridge Racer 64. And also before Arcade Archives happened.

Here it's Ridge Racer. But runs worse. After Arcade Archives already did that game.

This stuff has uses in development certainly. Tiny refinements to models, removing excess vertices, quicker repeat bug testing (run into this corner 5000 times to see how/If it breaks), using it to iterate texture placements to quickly narrow down ideals.

Really it needs to be used less for creative and more for menial and repetitive.

@Flaming_Kaiser Very tough choices.

But that RAM, thats an investment I can make money on in about a week.

Does it have Atreus tell you how to drive if you dont do it within 30 seconds?

Also, sure, I have 89k on standby. But do I spend it on this, or on a PS5 Pro, the PlayStation speakers, headsets, the Portal, the earbuds, the second headset and earbuds that work with the Portal because no Bluetooth, the remote, PSVR2, a disc drive, a stand and a Dualsense Edge controller?

Or do I spend that 89k on 32GB of RAM?

Welcome back Super Guide.

You say soon, it'll be about a year later.

Also assuming any of the goodies are quality. Or not delayed from the rest of the shipment. Or if they remember to actually press data onto the discs this time.

@RoomWithaMoose Game Awards, Summer Games Fest and Gamescom Opening Night Live are all Geoff's events, charging premiums for ad slots to what is a well noted very large audience across even cable TV.

@Enuo Super Smash Bros Ultimate launched on the day of the Game Awards and was included in the following year.

I know WHY Geoff doesn't host it in January to include all of a year, because early December is prime and time, and this he can charge the Megabucks to fuel his coffers.

But releasing early December means by the following event you've been forgotten by the hotness from the new year.

Then again, centralising the industry around one guy is a bit...hm.

Kleenex be rubbing their....hands....at the idea of this crossover.

Exclusive demos now, jesus christ

@PuppetMaster "You mean they need to spam experimental small titles that most of them was a flop just like they did back in PS3 and PSP era?"

Yes, they do, but they need to do it in a Nintendo way. There is a reason they can get away with pumping out numerous smaller games and series that only sell 1m units at a push:

It's all subsidised by the profits from their bigger games.

Mario Kart 8 deluxe sold 70m units. Thats going to be around 68m units of pure profit right there. Does those 10s of millions of dollars go into just the next Mario Kart? No. It funds Advance Wars, Metroid, Bayonetta, Astral Chain, Tomodachi Life, and so on so forth.

Nintendo doesn't live game to game like other developers do, because they've nailed value retention and longevity. This lets them make smaller games, hire out third party devs to help on projects, with minimal risk.

Sony, and just about every other developer, pumps 10s to 100s of millions into each game, plus marketing on top of that, and that money has to be recouped for the next one. They need a game like Spider Man 2018 to go and hit 20 to 30m units, to fund other things. But if the game cost 300m to make, then the margins are way slimmer, and the money will just be funneled into the next game from that studio.

Smaller budgets, smaller timeframes, more sensible spending, better profits, more games. At least in theory.

I recall Miyamoto said BOTW needed to hit 2m copies to make a profit, and that implies, at $60 per unit, the game cost $120m or there about to make. Over 7 years.

It's on my radar because like many Mega Man games, Europe never got Star Force 3.

And in many cases even if we did get it, it was published by some random company like Virgin Interactive, and got a super limited run.

See you in 6 years!

@Veritas7Ax It's a cool idea they've been doing since Mega Man 2 actually.

I mean sure. He's the KOTOR and Mass Effect guy.

Also Anthem.

I could see...maybe 2028 earliest. But that's with typical western developer crunch included.

"New ideas like making deliveries"

Crazy Taxi Pedestrian Edition sure was creative.

Anyway, if he's unsure about how this game will turn out, that's an omen.

And I wouldn't say he only ever made great games. Metal Gear 2 exists.

I mean, you'd damn well hope so.

Selling it for less than your nearest competitor, who to be fair isn't going to be discounting a new machine 6 months in, should lead to increased sales.

Heck it was so good of a deal, it was actually better than launch price for once!

Wait...that's not much of a deal.

So it's still coming on Switch 1 but not PS4? Weird world.

That's weird, since the Switch 2 version got touch screen and mouse controls....which takes MORE effort.

Well they sold Shovel Knight, released expansions that took years and were their own games for free to existing purchasers, and then spent years making a game that is barely playable.

Turns out that doesn't work out.

Man I love Tencent's Epic's Disney's Marvel & Lucas film's Unreal Engine Battle Pass Game featuring Fox.

Yeah, Question 9 is a bad question.

You can't ask for specifically which one scored higher, have two options that scored the same, and then tell the player you picked the wrong correct answer because what we actually asked was highest rated game with the highest number of reviews.

The Game Awards streamed live from the middle of the desert!

So if that footage is two years old, that puts it at around the third attempt at making this game, and has been rebooted a further two times since.

@themightyant Well if that's your criteria, then go game ever made has the same team if Devs move around.

It may be better to think of EPD as just one big studio (which it seems to be given how often they migrate around each other) with producers being set to games/series and picking their teams.

But given Nintendo's over 95% employee retainment rate, if a "studio" in EPD does get closed, they don't lose the staff.

@themightyant You can attribute which team did what based on the producer and developer interviews.

For instance we know the 3D Mario team made DK Bananza based on the tech used, developer interviews, and the producer.

Same for Splatoon and Animal Crossing, Mario Kart and ARMS, all the weird experimental games come from one team.

But beyond that, it's easy to tell since it's well known what studio does what. Nintendo Cube does party games, Monolith does Xenoblade, Retro does whatever they want, Camelot does Mario Sports, Next Level does Luigi's Mansion and Strikers, BST does smaller games, NERD is the retro games studio.

The only teams we don't actually get a good idea on are the really small ones like Shiver, mostly because they haven't done anything....yet.

Bit early to be calling something a cult classic.

This just in, 5 year old hardware on steep discount (relative to it's recently raised prices so it's not much of a discount) is outselling 6 month old hardware with no discount and 5 year old hardware that keeps going up in price with no discount.

Why would Microsoft have bought loads of RAM for their hardware they aren't selling?

I'll believe it when I see it. What government did they take a paycheque from this time that mandates it HAS to come out?

@Oram77 By priotise in some way, I believe they mean building for the hardware first, and then scaling features up to the more capable wall mounted machines.

Instead of starting off expensive, and then trying to scale a bloated high end game down.

It should benefit everyone, cheaper overall, quicker to make, better optimisation on higher end devices.

For previous management to say their financial risk assessments and market assessments wouldn't even bother looking at Nintendo, this is a stark difference.

Shame previous management also spent a good while not caring about Japan at all. This ain't gonna be some short term thing

I can't see controlling Ratchet with a digital stick and 4 digital buttons as particularly fun...or intuitive.

Then again this is the series that twice mapped strafing to a Dpad and then to a back touchpanel

Huh. A handheld spinoff of a beloved franchise no one asked for that is multiplayer focused and has a side mode called Blast Ball?

I've heard this before....

Sony's Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda movie.

Just like Sony's Disney's Marvel's Spider-Man films and games.