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You know it's bad when even Nintendo is going and they have nothing announced past July yet.

So Xbox is just....dire, Switch is doing shockingly well only 8% down this far and it's on its 7th year, and PS5 is selling as it should have done since launch.

All three are surprising for different reasons.

The battery on this is gonna be "Moderately lower" than the Dualsense Edge then.

@Amnesiac If it's anything's like Bloombergs false reports on Nintendo to the point they had to create an investors relations Twitter account to refute the stuff hard....minimal impact on consumers at best.

@get2sammyb True. But this is Game Freak. They did Legends, guided BDSP, did Little Town Hero and Sword and Shield DLC all simultaneously alongside Scarlet and Violet.

Right now we know of Project Bloom, SV DLC, probably the next two Pokemon games in the world already.

One of these has got to give, and Pokemon can definitely get worse. Way worse.

It's a shame Game Freak just can't get the manpower to do all the things it wants to do because with that they'd consistently have good games. Maybe with that nice new office space Nintendo just gave them...

Either this is a small team working on it, or the Pokemon games are about to get even worse 🤣

They seem unwilling to realise that yeah, these are all different genres, but you're going to need to either start pulling people away from their current handful of choice, or do the impossible and make an additional one that people also somehow find time to play.

And when you make that many in such a short time? Most of them won't stick.

But if even one sticks, it's good money.

Have they acquired Bubsy, or specifically Bubsy 3D?

So it's not even going to be all on the disc 🤣Might be a few gigs and then download the rest

Game of the Year is gonna be wild this year. Top rated games this far are a remaster of Metroid, a remake of Dead Space and a remake of Resident Evil 4.

@Flaming_Kaiser Or how Xbox worked with the 360.

They've all done it, but you can't claim any of them had truly organic success. It's a mix of dumb luck, coercion and borderline bribery.

@4kgk2 Sony earned the right to dominate through "natural" means?

Don't look up how they got all those games to go to the PS1. And how they kept it that way.

@Khayl To be fair, Metroid Prime Remastered isn't on their website either, but they sure as heck are in the credits for running support on the game. Odd.

Gonna say they did the first release too, and considering the games aren't being emulated, rather natively running new versions, it makes sense.

It's just they gave those new (or existing remakes for three of the games) to SEGA to slap into the Hedgehog Engine and THEN the problems began.

This guy has said a lot of different things about the console manufacturers lately, to the point at least two of them had to come out and outright (In one case very very bluntly) refute the claims to investor relations, because what he says is gonna cause issues when it comes out he was wrong and the market takes it as gospel.

So yeah, lets not put any weight in this.

It never made sense since the Hermit Koco takes seeds and upgrades both Offense and Defense in bulk in one go. So having Elder Koco require you to pick and choose each level for both Rings and Speed one by one was bizarre, including the lengthy animation and delay on the menu.

But then upon finding out that you can use Hermit Koco to transfer levels from Rings to Speed or vice versa, which almost logically you think since its not a choice and just transferring from one to the other, you can choose how many levels to swap.

Nope. One at a time.

So thank god they added this in.

It's a shame the ports weren't emulated.

@Gremio108 It's 12pm somewhere bud.

May have something to do with needing either an SSD, or 32GB of RAM if installing into a hard drive, just so the game can load everything it needs to like on PS5.

As more PS5 only games the jump, expect to see that requirement a lot.

Handheld gaming console.

It's a console. A console is a device designed for the interface of a user to data in some interactive fashion.

Therefore a device that requires a user to interact is by the broadest definition a console.

Granted, this is in the same way you fridge is a computer.

All medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines.

And here we go. Epic has Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys. They tried a 4th game, and realised that yeah, people don't have the time or funds to devote to that many at once. So something has to give. Even when the juggernaut does it.

Heck look at all the others that have come and gone from smaller publishers.

And here we have Sony wanting 12 of them in a matter of years. We all know what's gonna happen.

Either only one or two land and the rest are a sunk cost, or none of them land because yet again, people already have their live services of choice and won't budge.

Dropping the boost after Frontiers wouldn't be weird, given it no longer damages enemies as of Frontiers, and is only used for speed and getting from A to B faster. Even then, the boost doesn't actually make you any faster in 2D.

So it's gone from what it was to only actually doing anything in 3D and not damaging enemies anymore.

But removing it would require making traversal of large open spaces speedier. Sure we have the Drop Dash now, so maybe just bring back the Spin Dash?

Only thing the boost really adds now is the air boost anyway.

@NintenGuy Persona 5 PS5 also dropped of the charts like a hit rock.

Maybe Japan is fed up of Persona 5 after it's third rerelease.

@dasd2 Not gonna happen. Historically Sonic games have sold best on Nintendo systems even when multiplatform. Heck, Colours surpassed the HD version of Unleashed if I remember correctly. The only exceptions were the Wii U ones, obviously.

So as long as SEGA wants to target that market, and for Sonic there will always be a need for that large market, then it won't be next gen only. They tried that once.

@NintenGuy No, I couldn't give a toss about the Game Awards. It's always gone on for too long and felt too....artificial, I suppose is the word.

I also happened to be asleep so just saw who won what and called it a day while reading any interesting news.

No hard feelings though, it's an older meme sir, but it checks out.

@NintenGuy Two points.

1) Sonic Frontiers was remarkably mediocre. I dont think it was deserving of an award, regardless of how good it was relative to the series as a whole.

2) The Horizon joke was a popular meme in 2017, which I replied to what I assumed was a similar style joke from yourself. Apologies.

@NintenGuy Sonic Frontiers got no awards.

Horizon also got no awards this time as well as in 2017, as per the internet meme "Horizon Zero Awards", circa December 2017 or thereabouts.

Explanation fulfilled. Sorry if the joke was too obtuse.

@NintenGuy Same goes for Horizon then

@MisterXpoSay But Sony would get the same money from CoD then as they do now. They get their split of third party sales, the rest goes to the publisher. It's in this case the publisher would be Microsoft, not Activision. Sony would get the same 30%.

They're just arguing against something Microsoft has repeatedly said they won't do, and would be stupid to do: once they own CoD, they go from 30% of the revenue on Xbox, to 100% of the revenue on Xbox, plus 70% on Playstation, Steam and Nintendo.

In what world Sony really thinks ANY business would be that stupid is beyond me and this legally binding contract now proves it.

What this really is is Sony crying about losing the marketing rights that propelled PS+. They get the same revenue from the games and IAPs.

@Cyrus29 Maybe, maybe not. Nintendo budgets are lower, the hardware sells at a profit, and the games sell so well that the massive additional profits fund other games, whereas for Sony and Microsoft it would seem that while games turn out profitable, the lower (relatively) sales means less profit overall given those games also have far higher budgets, which means whatever they make back goes largely into the next entry, not other games as well, thus higher prices to offset that.

It's the one place where you can argue Nintendo stepping away from the power race has helped. Games for them are $60, cheaper to make, much more profit with massive sales funds everything else. I recall Miyamoto said Breath of the Wild needed to shift 2 million copies to make a profit. And you can bet all that Mario Kart money isn't going into Mario Kart 9, but games to expand the library that won't do as well like Bayonetta.

There's some black comedy in Sony throwing a fit about Xbox potentially taking games away from them that they've had for years when that's how Sony themselves started.

@LifeGirl It's not a lot of money in November 2022.

It was even less money in September 2022.

But it'll be more money than now in January 2023.

Sure, most adults pay the difference every few days on other things. Other things they need. And that's going to become tighter and tighter.

That £16? That's a week of travel too and from work. And as management on just above minimum wage? That £16 I could spend on PS+ Premium for things I'm not going to use, or don't work great like the streaming, or having little to no value added to it each month? That's gonna have to go into something that gives value.

Subjective yes, but people place needs before wants and they then divide what little wants they can have by value offered.

And to many Premium is low down that list.

I remember in Rift Apart I couldn't find a Gold Bolt that was on the map. Turns out it was in the only return trip in the game, in a new area right at the end, and using the PS5 Help feature, it showed me all the current plot missions too.

So even Sony does it themselves.

@Milktastrophe This months premium of loads of PS3 Ratchet gaames despite 4 of them being PS2 games that could be played natively on the system if they tried.

And lets not forget how they did with Sly as well for Premium.

And how both those Sly games and all these Ratchet games were er....how do we say this....on PS Now before the rebrand but got taken down so they can add them back again a few months later?

This is objectively being given the same thing you had before after it had been taken away to give it a new name, and now you pay more for it.

@Luigia 130m? They stopped giving numbers at 117m

LA Noire did this on PS4 too. 4GB on disc, download the rest.

Heck I think most disc based games do that now. The medium can't keep up with file sizes as is, so most companies won't even bother even if it would fit.

I'm fairly sure his next project ended up being Voice of Cards, based on the date in that tweet.

Well it's not a new Bomberman, that already got announced in a Nintendo Direct.

So....Yu-Gi-Oh probably. Though didn't that already get a game lately?

@uptownsoul No?

It shows that Xbox, as we see in monthyl reports, is selling plenty of cheaper Series S consoles that will therefore generate less revenue.

A £250 console that sells 100,000 units will generate less revenue than a console at £350 that sells 100,000 units.

Revenue is not profit, nor fully indicative of demand.

Heck, PS5 Hardware generates more dollar sales than Switch and Xbox hardware on the regular. But it doesnt generate the most unit sales.

@uptownsoul Xbox revenue being down makes sense. They have a far far cheaper and more widely available model.

Whereas the PS5 is pushing out the more expensive model over it's not as cheap, cheaper model.

So higher revenue.

I've seen it's level icon in the between round stage selector.

So that's something

Wonder if they took feedback from the CBT on Dragon Ball Breakers.

Don't look at me like that. That's the abbreviation they used.

"Get the new Abbie figure set now, complete with Clickers, real bat swinging action! Joel head parts sold separately via blind bags."

Ooh, I got a portion of his left forehead!

Why is Sony sponsoring the tournament they own? Bit weird.

But yeah that's a bit expensive but much like Apple you're paying for the brand here.

@JustPlainLoco Oh, it's not temporary

I could have swore this was already announced.

@ShogunRok The sad part is SEGA admitted it was delayed from 2021 already before reveal because they wanted to make a good game.

That implies that when it was still internally aimed at 2021....it wasn't a good game, and this is better than that.

I cant see the subscriber count going too far higher. Over 50m? Sure. 60m? Probably not.

Hence the tiers. More money per subscriber. That's the way to make PS+ look better to the suits.

As long as the emulation is better than the slowdown infested PS1 Classics on PS3 (Only the downloaded ones though, discs work fine), or the buggy remasters on PS3, or the 1080p Jak ports on PS4 with frame rate issues for some reason.

Or the PS Classic.

Actually I think it's best we see results before expecting this to be good.

@Blaze215 People dont buy the same games over and over.

What you'll find is happening, is every person that buys a new system, will wants games to play on said system. So with every new console sold, a game will go with it.

In that case, the game's that go with it, are likely to be the most readily available, easily understood and widest appeal titles.

As such, for every Switch, per your example, that is sold, the odds that a new purchaser buys a communal experience like Animal Crossing, a popular kids experience like Minecraft, or a simple pick up and play fun title like Mario Kart, is exceptionally high.

Think about how FIFA stays in the charts. Every time someone buys a new PS4 or Xbox, especially here in football country, they will buy FIFA for that system. It is one of if not the most mass market titles ever, to the point older games are going for 20p due to flooding the pre-owned market, as each game sells so well but loses its value exactly one year later to the point of being worthless.

Then, because people want the next version, FIFA 23 will shoot up the charts and stay there.

It is a long sustainable game of retaining consumers, and with each new console sold to someone, said games are likely to go with it.

So no, it's not just a Switch thing, it just feels that way because the system has many, many evergreen titles.