Max_the_German

They are all right. Without Gamepass, Microsoft wouldn’t have closed these studios due to costs being too high for the expected success. The proof: Sony offers no Gamepass and has never fired people or closed an entire studio.

Some racing fans swear by Assetto Corsa, so there’s still hope for enough competizione in future.

I don’t get why bringing the ONLY successful PlayStation Studios live-service game to other platforms should be not a positive thing.

@Oram77 I think that was Belgium. Loot boxes are not regulated on EU level as far as I know.

But the EU also forced Apple to allow other stores than the App Store to be installable on iPhones and iPads, e.g. the Epic Game Store.

Having market power plays out.

@Oram77 Yes, the EU has some power regarding consumer products. Also thanks to the EU, I can charge the iPhone - I‘m writing this text with - with USB-C.

At least EA kept supporting their game for several years despite poor response from the audience.

Hermen clearly isn’t that patient.

@MrPeanutbutterz I get why they made this article, and I still prefer quality over quantity. Speaking of SEO, the title lacks the typical „on PS5“. These policies make the articles a bit soulless sometimes.

@PuppetMaster Sorry, I‘m still angry. I think it should not be worth mentioning that one company isn’t doing BS which other companies do. Imagine this article in a newspaper: „Still no signs that politician C is corrupt. After the reveal that the politians A and B are corrupt, our investigation team found out that there are no signs at all that politician C, who is totally independent of the other ones, is corrupt in any means. And this after decades of no signs of corruption.“ This behaviour should be regarded as standard which is not worth mentioning.

@PuppetMaster Nope, I find these kind of articles somewhat superfluous. It‘s like „Sony is doing what they’ve always done with single-player games since PS1“. Instead, they should only make articles about publishers which don’t.

@PuppetMaster Just because publishers other than Sony and Nintendo are doing bad things isn’t enough reason for me to applaud Sony and Nintendo for doing the normal stuff.

And no, there are no signs that Nintendo will use game-key cards for their games. They offer them to other publishers, because cartridges will always be expensive (even if there were models with less than 64 GB). And the alternative for many publishers would be „code in the box“, probably the worst option.

@MrPeanutbutterz I know what’s happening. And still: No applause from me for what I still consider normal business. Microsoft is moving to PC and digital-only.

But Sony and Nintendo? Please tell me a single game (beside TotK, which has two language packs not on the cartridge to fit on a 16 GB one) from them which is not in its entirety on the physical medium. And are there any signs that this will change for the latest systems?

Now we applaud when a first-party game is in its entirety on a double-layer bluray disc???

This will help a lot! Many console games use FSR for upscaling. With FSR 4, the Pro functionality will be much more easily accessible to developers.

For many other games without FSR usage (especially when using TSR in UE5), the Pro won‘t get versions with AI upscaling.

CoD: Microsoft knows how to milk the cow, and people complain.

Concord etc.: Sony doesn’t know how to, and people complain.

People complain.

The original German version of Wolfenstein 2 also had no Hitler. That guy was named Heiler and had no beard.

Dark Auction: Heiler‘s Estate, maybe?

The industry is trained by the customers to increase the amount of content more and more. For Baldur‘s Gate 3, the poor writers created millions of sentences, and people take that insane amount of (mostly tedious) work for granted.

But it’s not, most of us wouldn’t want to do this job, which a machine can do on a similar quality level these days.

AI can also be a relief for the developers!

@Rich33 You lucky man! I can’t have fun with a half decent game, because I know there are still dozens of fantastic games out there I haven’t played yet.

@SeaDaVie Ragnarök had 23k Steam players in its first week, 2018 had 74k. How high do you think is the probability that Ragnarök shifts significant numbers on PC?

@PuppetMaster I totally agree, and I wasn’t clear in my explanation. My short list of examples include AAA games which look and play pretty much the same as the predecessor, and you have noteworthy ones in your list, e.g. Uncharted. I still have the feeling that successors typically suffer.

@SeaDaVie And the total sales number for GoW is higher than for GoWR. I found no better numbers than those on Wikipedia: 23m vs. 15m

@UltimateOtaku91 Your explanation sounds reasonable. Sequel + a very divisive gameplay mechanic. Even games with highly accepted gameplay suffer, Horizon, GoW, Spidey, Doom. TotK also performed worse than BotW, but on a much higher level (10m after 3 days, now more than 21m).

Only Concord 2 would perform better.

That’s clearly Sony fault. The PS5‘s power management should ensure that the maximum power draw is limited to a certain value, which the power supply and the cooling system can handle even under rough conditions.

Here the power management is failing. Or this operation is heating a small area on the chip, leading to a local overheating, while total consumption is okay.

Now it‘s the job of Kojima Productions to fix the game AND of Mark Cerny and his team to find the problem and solve it for upcoming games, probably by updating the PS5 SDK.

I usually don’t tell my colleagues that I play video games. Statements like this confirm me in my behaviour.

With PSVR2 support, I would buy Star Wars: Squadrons Remastered full price.

And I am an Xbox.

@Oram77 And what does Early Access mean? Beta status? Early income for the devs to finance the lengthy development?

No, this here is something different, more like the release schedule of cars: In the first few months you only get the models with more expensive engines, while the masses wait for the cheaper options. To call that model „Early Access“ would be bonkers.

This is new: Spoiler warnings for a trailer while the game released two days prior.

I would argue that using AI in this way, for minor tasks like creating foliage textures, is a smart use of the technology and will help save costs and improve efficiency.

Indy is the game I‘m interested in, but the current prices are still too high for my taste. Hopefully we will see a significant price drop for Black Friday.

@cuttlefishjones Yes, the publishers could do it. And I think many of them won’t.

I think many publishers won’t order PS5 Pro patches and will instead stick to higher resolutions thanks to existing DRS systems, as it is with Cyberpunk. The PS5 Pro adoption rate could be too small, and it doesn’t offer the significant step from 1080p to 4k we saw with PS4 Pro.

@Oram77 A game for everyone sounds very serviceable, but not the sense of wonder and excitement you wish from such an event.

And that’s mainly due to bad stuff: If the show would have consisted of the top 30 minutes, the overall reception would be much higher.

I‘m playing Death Stranding 2, and that’s all I can say about that.

Sweetheart, that was the last time I did that. I‘m so sorry, that will never ever happen again I promise!

This comment section quickly turned into a battlefield. Typical for a Friday afternoon.

Without the Xbox Series X and its Game Pass, the initial price of the base PS5 would have been more than 600 USD, and there wouldn’t have been the PS Plus Collection.

Sony cannot wait to see Microsoft leaving the console business!

Finally: Sony allows Game Trials without subscribing to PS Plus Premium.

What Brandon Adler is doing here is highly unprofessional. You don’t blame your parent company in public interviews. As Matt Booty, I would fire him immediately. And I know that many here in the comments will dislike this comment.

@ButterySmooth30FPS Yes, these patches will most likely make a boring game an interesting one.

@ATaco Coming to PS Plus Essential is inevitable.

@Eduard_Brenton A black eye would be okay, but this is a catastrophe. More like a MindsOut.

Xbox Series X/S is performing abysmally, and at the same time Microsoft is saving this generation.

@ChrisDeku I think that OldGamer999 is totally right. I‘m looking forward to playing Indiana Jones.

This is a tragedy for the staff. Bend seems to be a bit remote, with not many other job opportunities for game software developers. If such layoffs happen in Montreal, there are plenty of alternatives, but Bend is not Montreal.

It’s a self-regulating market: The publishers‘ goal is to maximise the revenue. If the price point is too high, the total revenue will be lower.

Many publishers don’t seem to know WHAT we want to play. But they seem to know HOW MUCH we are willing to pay.

The tragical joke of 2025?

When you like an Xbox showcase much more than a State of Play, are you an Xbox fan? Asking for a friend.

My highlight of the show.

„A new boobtastic game is here“

There were a few interesting announcements, but they are almost buried by other stuff. If you would combine your personal top 5 trailers into one video, then it’s great!

But ai first have to find out what my top 5 are (will include RE9).