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I just stumbled across this before.

The final is God of war 2018 Vs Ragnarok.

@tameshiyaku Yeah it probably is a decent pallet cleanser but I prefer not to move on to a different game until I finish the one I'm playing and unfortunately this one is just low priority for me due to personal taste.

@AverageGamer Except I would say they are wisely using Insomniac to sell consoles, where they generate most of their revenue and it seems to have paid off since they obviously contributed to Phil Spencer declaring to the world they've lost the console war lol. That definitely seems the smarter move to me, rather than waste them for a market that is a huge risk with a higher chance of falling.

Only time will tell if Meta can be a success but as I said before it still sounds like a pipe dream at this point in time. 👍

@AverageGamer Well it seems it suffers from the same problem as PSVR2, for most after the initial hype wears off it becomes a dust collector so they'll have to overcome their retention problems first, so good luck with that pipe dream I guess.

https://www.roadtovr.com/quest-sales-20-million-retention-struggles/amp/

I don't have time to fit this in between Rebirth, Ronin, Stellar and Dogma but I'm sure I'll pick it up someday on a deep sale.

@GoingTheDist Yep but it is still propped up by Facebook. Loads of other companies would have been bankrupt 10 times over but Zuckerberg is willing to take huge losses. I also wonder how many of the PC crowd just buy it for xxx and a believe that it'll eventually lead to them having a virtual girlfriend.

@AverageGamer I know that their operating cost is the reason why they are constantly losing billions, it seems their plan is to saturate the PCVR market as much as possible and that's why they don't care how much they lose to make it happen.

@liathach I don't think there ever was a war, well only in Meta users minds because Sony obviously see's the massive investment and billions of dollars Meta constantly loses on VR. I personally think the plan was to sit back a bit and hope Meta makes VR a must have and then they'd benefit from that but they aren't benefiting enough from it which makes getting 3rd party support more difficult and makes it harder to justify big investments for 1st party games for it..

@Shepherd_Tallon Yeah hopefully Sony sticks it out and the library grows slowly but surely, at least enough to get enough people interested in buying one and it's best to take everything this Bloomberg guy says with a pinch of salt because he's proven himself to be unreliable.

@MomsSpaghetti Yeah you're best off not giving those naysayers much attention, especially that one guy, he never misses an opportunity to try and ***** on PSVR2 while praising Meta. It is all he ever seems to talk about.

This Takeshi guy definitely can't be trusted, he just recently misquoted Sony again to make a more dramatic headline from that investors meeting and there's a history of Sony correcting him but honestly this wouldn't suprise me if it was true.

Demand is obviously low and there's no point in having a surplus, hopefully Behemoth & that Metro game can drum up a bit of interest and if it is actually going to PC then hopefully it takes off on there, although that could just be streaming PCVR games to the headset for PlayStation users from the vague statement they made.

@GoingTheDist You'd think with those kind of numbers, Meta wouldn't still be losing billions on VR but somehow they still lost $4.65 billion on it last quarter.

@RBRTMNZ Whatever you say sunshine and FYI that IGN hit piece was written by an Englishman and there's people from multiple races and ethnicities defending the game in the comments, and yes that includes African Americans. 👍

@RBRTMNZ Yeah white men are the problem. They are everything that is wrong with your world. Just how racist are you? You're clowning yourself for trying to associate American problems to a Japanese video game anyway. So what's your solution? Only white guys can be the bad guys in media? As I said before nobody has to agree with your supposed issues. The world does not revolve around you.

@RBRTMNZ You mean self defense? Show me the law that says it only applies to white people, I'll wait, anyway trying to associate that to a game about a zombie outbreak in Africa is utterly ridiculous, I'm sure there's a lot of messed up stuff that happens in America and also the rest of the world for that matter but I wasn't referring to serious issues, I'm talking about the minuscule and trivial ones or the ones that are actually none existent until some self righteous holier than thou attention seeker tries to create one and pair it with a real world issue just because it triggered their victim mentality or hero complex.

Ofc some supposed issues can be more important to some but that doesn't mean the rest of the world has to agree with them, or that they are right about it, or that it is an actual issue in the first place.

@RBRTMNZ @Hyena_socks My original comment was influenced by the fact I had just watched that IGN Resident Evil 5 video but I was also only being semi-serious to begin with. The actual intention behind it was just to poke fun at the constantly offended. You're right though, this definitely wasn't the place for it so for that I apologise, and yeah this game actually does look fun.

@RBRTMNZ Except these days, half the time they aren't actual issue's, that was the point.

@Hyena_socks Sorry no can do. I've got to lead my brigade to victory, there's no turning back now. It should be easy though when the opposition are just a bunch of drama queens.

Seriously though do you think people just wake up one day and decide to start saying everyone gets offended by everything? Yeah there's definitely no cause for it, lets just go with that.

@Flaming_Kaiser I'm not sure what you're trying to say so I'm just going to go ahead and presume your drunk, I hope you had a good time anyway mate. 👍

Yeah people forget gaming is supposed to be fun. How long until someone finds something to be offended by in this game and then tries to organise a boycott even though they had no intention to play the game in the first place?

@carlos82 Yeah I'm aware that TFlops can be misleading but that's fine by me either way, actually if it keeps the price down I'm all for it.

I'm more interested in seeing what level of Ray Tracing it can deliver and how good Cerny's resolution upscaling is, or Cerny's secret sauce as some people call it.

@carlos82 "67 TFLOPS of 16-bit floating point."

No I won't think of it that way because it is 33.5 at FP32 👍

If all that is true then I'm definitely buying one. It actually sounds way more impressive than I thought it would.

Hopefully they do a good job on it because this game was definitely fun. It'll probably be digital only though which means I'll have to wait for a sale.

Day one for me as well. Skill Up can complain all he wants about it not being Nioh 3, it makes absolutely no difference to me.

As long as we see some good games then I don't really care who hosts it.

Physical copy or I wait for a deep sale, but I'll buy it for sure.

Well Tencent will probably buy some shares so Sony may as well. They are currently trying to make inroads into the South Korean gaming market so it would make sense and just be a similar situation to what they've already got with FromSoftware.

Looks more like a concept trailer that they presented to higher ups to see if they can get the go ahead.
Personally I don't think it looked all that interesting so I'm not surprised it got cancelled.

Nice headline but Sony cut ties with this studio almost a year ago.

@Weez You're wasting your time. They disregard anything that doesn't fit their narrative.

@RoomWithaMoose Yes, I went to the strip club and asked some stripper's and they said they were totally fine with it. Why don't you try that yourself? And ask some OnlyFans models while you're at it.

Maybe you can try and convince some of them they are wrong for being okay with Eve's design and clothing because it is clear that is what you are attempting to do now to Sweet. When you said you had talked with women you conveniently left out the part where you try and manipulate them to think the same way you do.

How is anyone supposed to take anything you say seriously. Just get a grip, it is a work of fiction it isn't real and if the developers wanted to give Eve 3 tits it makes no difference whatsoever.

@RoomWithaMoose - "What does kinda bother me is how defensive people get over this stuff. Always trying to make it sound like a perverted character design is more realistic, or somehow on a moral high ground."

Actually yes I was really drunk when I replied to you and couldn't find your original comment but I remember reading it as as you saying people were using the character to assume the moral high ground which still makes perfect sense but you said the character itself is on the moral high ground.

Maybe people wouldn't need to use the character in that way if people like you weren't trying to eradicate these character designs from their hobby.

Don't pretend you're okay with this game because that's not how your comment reads. It is full of underhanded remarks, you were being extremely condescending.

@kcarnes9051 Your 100% definitely to be trusted personal experience means less than nothing to me. As far as I'm concerned you're just a random person on the internet who claims they are some sort of higher authority on this subject because you mix in the same circles as people who have the same self righteous mindset as you.

I don't claim to be an expert on this matter and I don't have an obvious axe to grind like you either, but let me guess, you also think violence in video games is a problem and that comedy should be censored as well? In fact don't answer that because honestly I have no interest in your answer. Bye. 👋

@RoomWithaMoose Yeah that's fine, I was pacifically refering to the part of your now deleted or removed comment where you stated you were annoyed at the people who like this sort of thing because they think they have the moral high ground.

Except whenever I see a discussion or heated debate about this sort of thing the comments are usually filled with remarks like you're incels and perverts, or you're juvenile and childish. For example this comment section is full of them. That to me is one side trying to act superior and look down on the other because they already assume they have the moral high ground.

Anyway discussions like this have become tiresome to me and I prefer not to participate if I can help it, plus I can understand how either side can be easily annoyed by the other so let's just leave it at that shall we.

@kcarnes9051 So what percentage of female gamers worldwide take umbrage with this sort of thing and what percentage are totally fine with it?
Actually let's go further shall we, what percentage of female gamers actually want to play games like this and like to cosplay as characters like Eve and 2b?

Your statistics are useless because you can't dictate what people should like or be acceptable off, even though you clearly wish that was the case.

@Mortal - The dev interviews I've seen, they come across like horny teenagers trying to create their perfect girlfriend in a videogame.

Yeah let's tell artists they cannot paint anything they find beautiful or attractive shall we?

@RoomWithaMoose You mean like the evidence in this comment section of people trying to occupy the moral high ground? I guess it goes both ways. Both sides seem to be taking issue over the most stupid and inconsequential things but personally I've only seen one side ridiculing the other and calling them childish while trying to act all high and mighty and superior.

@B0udoir Yeah you're obviously a highbrow person so let's discredit other people's tastes shall we? Have you ever heard the saying one person's trash is another person's treasure? Or how about beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Obviously this isn't in the same league as the masterpiece you're describing but does it really need to be? If people enjoy it then just let them enjoy it.

@RoomWithaMoose I find it strange that you think the people who are fine with stuff like this are the ones trying to take the moral high ground.

I mean how deluded does someone need to be to assume that's what is happening?

@Gamestation They could hit the point when they need to expand again if PC, Mobile and Playstation becomes not enough to sustain them and they can't find a way to reduce budgets.

PC & Mobile gaming are massive markets though so if they are successful on them then I'd imagine they'll be able to easily hold out until AI becomes advanced enough to reduce game budgets. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

@Gamestation Nope, Totoki already clarified that by multiplatform, he was talking about PC & Mobile.

It's true that consoles are almost constantly hitting a market saturation point now. There is growth and I'd imagine there always will be but the growth is miniscule at this point and can't keep up with the ballooning budgets. The dilemma Sony faces is they need to expand without cannibalising their ecosystem/store. Which is exactly what they are trying to do now with a Pc and mobile push. Will it work or not, who knows but honestly I don't really care if it does or not. I'm bored of this debate and whatever happens, happens.

@CutchuSlow Yeah it's a skin coloured bodysuit she's wearing.

At the end of the day it's just art and art is subjective. It's not real and nobody is forcing you to like it or buy it. Hypocrites who didn't take issue with BG3 but have an issue with this though will always be hilarious to me.

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@NikoGenn first of all, welcome to PushSquare.

Unfortunately I missed the demo but I've just watched someone play it on YouTube and it looks great to me, I'm sure we'll all get to try it though when the demo drops but I'm even more confident about my preorder now.

I'm glad this is good news for Rebirth seeing as it didn't release until the 29th and Helldivers seems to be a smash hit. They are both great games so they deserve it.

Ngl this did have a slight uplifting effect on me. I wasn't sure at first but by the end I can safely say I kinda enjoyed it.

@JohntheRaptor It's front loaded because a lot of companies want their games out before their fiscal year ends. I'm sure we'll still get plenty of games getting release dates after their Q4.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner That 28% is UK only in the first 3 weeks on sale, so no it isn't millions it's just a a few hundred thousand less.

Japan is in a recession so consumer spending has declined but they do make more money from sales abroad because of the weak yen at the moment so there's an upside I guess.