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Sucks that they didn't convey this to developers who had to then can years of work or crunch, and this was the bit they didn't backpedal on. Oh well.

Jim Ryan spoke about his opinion/goals for the business and the two are going to get muddled because it's Jim "Foot in Mouth" Ryan?

Where's my popcorn, this is gonna be good.

Also, we won't tell Miyamoto you stole his homework Jim. We promise.

"better to wait and have a great game than to rush and have a game that is okay or quite good".

There was a popular song over the past few weeks I could parody.

Something abouts its coming out, Ghostwire's coming out.

Sounds like what happened with Nintendo and Next Level Games. Have a close relationship, the shareholders in Next Level wanted them to sell after the mega hit Luigi's Mansion 3 topped off constant progress and growing hit after hit, and Nintendo saw that and went "Like hell you are" before anyone else got in.

Sony and Nintendo learned from what happened with Rare, the minute the company mentions selling, you need to buy.

Its also a problem that Ghost of Tsushima already has a patch for backwards compatibility on PS5 that gives it dynamic 4K resolution at 60fps.

But for $10 more you can get dynamic 4K at a maybe more stable 60fps? Plus controller features that The Last of Us Part 2 patched into back compat for free, and the use of activities and the such we keep forgetting about.

Wow there's no good spin here.

@Rob_230 Level-5...maybe. Nintendo would be the other obvious guess but they dont like bailing out sinking ships otherwise they would have nabbed AlphaDream.

NihonFalcom....nope. Those guys are spending a lot of time pulling themselves away from being dependant on PlayStation along with a lot of other Japanese developers of their scale.

Even if it ends up as "Okay" I hope they don't chicken out and refine it in the following game.

Sonic Lost World had potential to be evolved and they just wimped out but when Unleashed was okay and had potential they refined it in the next game.

@Philbop People are going for what's in the next few months it seems which is fair. BOTW2 being 2022 probably means a vast majority of preorders won't happen until the date is locked down.

What, haptic feedback can play music?

This surprises Kirby (2018) immensely. Immensely I say!

@get2sammyb The question is how many hardware units are the digital only model. That'll tell us how many maximum physical copies they could sell to each owner of a disc based system assuming every system sold is actually in use and everyone bought a copy of the game.

@wiiware I keep forgetting that game is a thing, given its Pirates Curse Part 1.

DSiWare was basically GBA styled games with a bit more detail tbh. Pirates Curse used the same art style too but that game is sooooo good.

@wiiware Ah yes the Shantae Game Boy game that isn't on PS4 yet 🤣

@RogerRoger There's no evidence of Nintendo paying for Secret Rings/Colours/Black Knight.

Lost World and Rise of Lyric, yes. Lost World is on PC though.

I assume you take the same stance to stuff like Final Fantasy 16, countless Xbox stunts and the like?

@RogerRoger The exclusivity was due to Sonic games historically selling way better on Nintendo platforms than others.

It's not baffling when it's business, and we know SEGA, they go where the cash is. It's why Xbox is currently in their pockets.

An ominously posh villain.

Watch it be Drek or someone 🤣

So was Animal Crossing and Luigi's Mansion 3, and many games from other developers.

And it's really sad those games need medals for that.

I'm impressed people still think the open world stuff started in Nexus and not, you know, the two levels that did it in Ratchet 2.

This borders on Pokemon Sun and Moon levels of showing everything off pre release now.

This would have been a cool thing to see but no, let's do a whole ad campaign about our endgame weapon because it has some references which nets a few extra sales.

At least Platinum will show off something this year.

Be funny If true when GT7 had PS5 Exclusive slapped all over it's trailer...

@Orpheus79V They didn't need to upgrade from the initial Hedgehog Engine either but they did. It worked at 4k on PCs, did numerous art styles (Unleashed, Generations and Lost World) worked across multiple architectures. Heck many argue Unleashed visually is a more impressive game than Forces

Don't underestimate Sonic Teams stupidity.

@Orpheus79V So is the PS4, and Sonic Team still spent 3 out of 4 years making Hedgehog Engine 2, and then had the actual game part made by people who had never worked on Sonic before.

Its not whether or not the PS5 is easy to get the game running on. Its a matter of how much time and effort does Sonic Team want to spend tweaking how it looks to use the PS5's capabilities.

That's be 5 years since the last Sonic title Sonic Team made.

Add on two new consoles to make it for and it may be Forces again. They spent 3 of that games 4 year dev cycle making the graphics engine...

@ChromaticDracula Ah yes, the Octopath Engine.

Or to us normies, Unreal Engine 4

That's still $85 for a PS5 game.

Well, it's better than nothing? 🤷

THQNordic strikes again with another average at best title.

@itsfoz That price is what is currently listed for the Anniversary Edition on the PS Store yeah.

@AK4tywill Thinking about it more, surely the original base game at launch was $60/£50 or thereabouts.

How did the entire thing get discounted with add-ons in AMerica, but more expensive here?

Bruh

@OorWullie Just read that.

Had to rub my eyes.

It costs HOW MUCH HERE?!

$40 in America.

$80 in Britain.

Ah yes, Summer Games Mess, which was 4 months + of just....random announcements.

Tune in on this day for this thing. Now this thing next week. Okay now who's doing what and when?

Get ya flowcharts out people

@Grumblevolcano They went the Nintendo route and then some.

Nintendo goes for 33% off, so a £50 game (their high price save for BOTW and Smash) drops to between £30 and £35.

For Sony, a £70 game dropping to £60 is...not even 20%.

So yeah they're trying a Nintendo, holding value in their games, except now they are a higher price than even them by a large margin, and the deals are worse.

At least here in the UK I can pay £85 for two Switch game vouchers and as long as Nintendo is the publisher it doesn't matter the price, you get the game. £100 worth of games for £85 plus you get gold points for other small savings from those purchases.

Never thought I'd say this but for once Nintendo has the better digital deals. Yikes.

Oh boy. The same weapons we've been seeing game in and game out since 2007 with Tools of Destruction. Buzz Blades, Mr Zurkon, surprised the Combustor isn't back again.

@thedevilsjester I'd assume that this being a separate volatile save file would not be uploaded.

The example I have of course was long before cloud saves were a concept. You just said the action itself would allow.save scumming, not a cloud save of that volatile save. I understand now.

@thedevilsjester It doesn't allow save scumming.

The way PMD quicksaving worked is once you did the quicksave it saved to a non permanent slot. It then forced you to close the game

Upon reopening the only menu option you had is to reload that quicksave which once loaded, deletes itself.

There is no way to recover that quicksave without making a new one, which means it'll save at the exact point you made it.

Using this method you can never go backwards mid run, only forwards. But it lets you take breaks.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon from 2005.

Open menu. Quick save. Game boots you to menu. Next load is forced to be that quick save which then deletes itself.

Fixed it for you.

Well if output is close to dev times for PS4, that's pretty much the generation sorted then. Two to 4 games per studio.

@Quintumply Shame he didn't say what percentage of sales were digital. That'd give us a rough idea of the skew in where it's being bought.

Given it's pick up and play nature (in theory anyway) I'd have said digital.

@Quintumply Digital sales were revealed by Christopher During last weekend. Even if you include Returnals UK digital sales, it falls in behind the physical sales of New Pokemon Snap. So it was #2 for the week regardless.

@get2sammyb Digital sales have been looked at, even with the fact Pokemon Snap doesnt include digital sales, Returnal was still #2 for the week with digital included.

https://twitter.com/Chris_Dring/status/1390727442210381824?s=20

@MFTWrecks As I said. Publicly investing. For all we know most of their money can be funnelled directly into Neil Druckmann's wallet

But all the announcements have been investing in other media which is...interesting. EVO makes sense, make it look like PS is the only place to play fighting games. The anime apps....I dunno sure? The movies on PS+....yeah I dunno either.

This makes sense though.

I remember the articles about Microsoft going for it, and the comments saying "Yeah, Discord doesnt impact us, we dont use Discord"

The benefits to Discord greatly outweigh native voice solutions. Not only does Discord enable cross-platform voice chat by not being tied to a platform, it also allows you to organise games far, far easier than any platform centric system ever has.

Sure you can send a random invite to a friend if they are online, but to arrange a time you need to contact them outside of your platform anyway.

Seperate apps and integration to them, believe it or not, is the way forward for social gaming.

Y'all best get used to the complications. The world has advanced beyond Xbox Live of early HALO days. It's easier to play with others than ever before....as long as the integration is there.

Also I must say, Sony is certainly investing in....things other than games studios publicly. EVO, Discord, anime streaming apps, streaming movies into PS+....

@JJ2 This comment section aged well.

@get2sammyb From what has been said by GamesIndustry.biz, the gap between #1 and #2 on this chart was "comfortable".

So take that for what you will.

Now we won't see more footage of the new Getsu Fumaden...

Ah yes, the small sandbox levels first introduced in Into The Nexus.

And not that there was two of them in RAC2, one in RAC3, one in Tools of Destruction...., in fact, the one level they show off here, Sargasso, WAS the open sandbox level for Tools of Destruction.

Sure none of them were quite as expansive but it was still all seemlessly loaded, items to get and lots of enemies.

Oh and big things to kill for said items too.

I do wonder if there is some trickery going on here.

Like maybe that second area is "loaded" prior, at least in part, and the crystal simply exists to swap it in to play.

Could be some clever use if preloading into RAM here rather than "none of this was loaded but in a second it all is".

I just wonder how much of it is actual SSD speed and not long established optimisations with spare space developers had.

@nessisonett Monster Hunter Rise was announced for PC officially a month before the game came out, with a 2022 release date.

Oh, and Monster Hunter Stories 2 isnt exclusive either.

I'm not paying £70 for a new IP in a genre I have an on and off relationship with depending on the title.

But that's just me.

@GKO900 Wondering how the graphics on PS4 can be better when its already 1080p 60fps on Switch.

More effects maybe? It's the RE Engine so I'm sure it can do it.

Oh yeah.

Game Help.

That's a....thing?