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Honestly, this was an awful State of Play, in my opinion. Easily the worst they've done in a while. Aside from Wolverine and Saros, there was almost nothing I was interested in. Usually these State of Plays have some exciting third-party reveals, but here? They were practically non-existent.

The fact that Sony wasted time on FF Tactics, a game that's coming out in a few days, and showed us an update for GT7, as well as some speakers, proves that they were really just padding this State of Play out.

Dynasty Warriors 3 Remastered and Deus Ex Remastered were neat announcements, but most of the other games they showed, even if they looked good, were things we've seen a million times already. Like Crimson Desert and Battlefield 6.

Microsoft is supporting PSVR2 more than Sony is somehow, that's wild. I didn't think they would ever put a game on PSVR2.

@Slayer25c No one plays Nioh for the story, so I don't think that matters lol.

@Weez They didn't say never, they just said it won't come anytime soon. Either way, if they aren't tied down by any exclusivity deals, it's a dumb decision on Koei Tecmo's part. Not to mention these games would also sell very well on Switch 2.

@Slayer25c It's not like you need to play Nioh 1 to understand what's going on in Nioh 2, or something. They're not story-heavy games.

And skipping the first few installments of a series on Xbox hasn't stopped companies like Capcom and Bandai Namco from putting Monster Hunter Stories 3 and Digimon Story: Time Stranger on Xbox, respectively.

Maybe Sony does have a timed exclusivity deal for Nioh 3, but they haven't really advertised it or something. Who knows.

@Weez It's weird that Nioh 3 isn't coming to Xbox, considering that Sony hasn't said anything about an exclusivity deal for the game. Since Sony isn't publishing it, there is no good reason for this game to be PS exclusive.

If skipping Xbox is a decision that Koei Tecmo made of its own volition (and not because of any exclusivity deals), then it's even more baffling that they think Fatal Frame 2 remake will sell on Xbox, but not Nioh 3.

@ShogunRok Did they confirm that there's no upgrade path for Kiwami 1 and 2?

@Ichiban More like just ports, not remakes.

What's crazy is that the Red Light Raid multiplayer mode won't be available at launch on PS5, Xbox, and PC, even though it was featured in the Switch 2 version months ago. You have to wait extra to play it on those platforms.

If there's one thing you have to give Ubisoft credit for, it's that they at least don't abandon most of their games immediately, even if they don't perform so well at launch (aside from XDefiant lol). Avatar underperformed commercially, according to them, but they're still supporting it to this day.

@Lukasamba Considering Kojima Productions just entered full production on OD this July, it will probably be a decade by the time Physint comes out lol

@Dodoo Konami did actually open up a new internal studio in Osaka back in 2023, so it seems they are aiming to rebuild their in-house teams.

Maybe in the future, Konami will make a new Silent Hill game themselves instead of outsourcing it, just like they used to.

https://www.gamesradar.com/konami-opens-new-studio-to-continue-sustainable-growth-in-the-next-50-years/

@Oram77 It already has, though? I don't know about you, but Death Stranding 2 has great gameplay imo. And there are countless games that looked cutting-edge for their time and also had great gameplay. Case in point, something like DMC 5 or RDR2.

Good graphics and good gameplay are not mutually exclusive. I can understand preferring one over the other, but I don't see why cutting-edge graphics shouldn't be a plus.

@johncalmc The Yakuza stuff will be shown off later today, there's an RGG Summit like 12 hours from now.

If you actually got the rewards for free after getting a platinum for Ghost of Yotei or something, this would be awesome. But the fact that you actually have to pay for everything means that this is a scam.

Honestly, I really didn't like The Last Guardian, like at all. I played the game a few years ago and I found it so frustrating. One the one hand, this game has the most realistic animal AI I've ever seen (even though Trico isn't a real animal), but on the other hand, getting Trico to do what you want was such a pain. The game's story wasn't that interesting, either IMO.

I played Shadow of the Colossus after finishing The Last Guardian, and I found that to be a lot more entertaining.

@themightyant It's kinda weird that there's no voice acting in the trailer, it seems like this is still very early in production.

@Jammer This is (or was) supposed to be the Xbox exclusive game, it's not clear if it will launch first on Xbox anymore.

@get2sammyb I don't think Kojima ever said that OD is meant to be a smaller project lol. The game is literally being made with an "Avengers-level" group of directors, so I think it's safe to safe both it and Physint are of a similar scope.

@RoomWithaMoose Agreed. If you want to hear good English dubs in video games, look no further than the recent Persona titles. Sure, some people may still prefer the original Japanese voice acting, but it's hard to say that the English dubs in games like Persona 5 are bad or mediocre.

@Rich33 Not really. If one aspect of the game is bad, that doesn't mean the entire game is awful. To use my prior example, most people would still think that Clair Obscur is an amazing game, even if it ran poorly.

I'm personally more tolerant of performance issues than others, so maybe that factors into my opinion, but the only way I would give a game a 6 or lower solely due to performance issues, is if it was literally unplayable. And I mean, LITERALLY. Like, the game can't boot or anything, or if it constantly crashes. A good example of that would be something like the launch version of Cyberpunk 2077. Most games, even ones with performance issues like Borderlands 4, don't launch in as nearly as bad a state as that one.

If everyone was as critical as you when it comes to performance woes, then there would be a lot of legitimately good games that have abysmal ratings on Metacritic, all because of some technical problems that they suffered at launch. And, to make matters worse, most outlets wouldn't change their reviews even if the games were improved. So it would be harder than usual to sort through good and bad games.

@Rich33 I think it would make zero sense for a game to get a terrible review score solely because of bad performance.

If Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ran like crap, and every major outlet gave it a 6/10 or lower score because of that, then the reviews for the game would be misleading, since they'd give the impression that it sucks. When, in fact, it does not.

Yes, you should dock some points from a game if it suffers from performance issues, but you shouldn't give it an awful rating solely due to that. If a game is amazing, it still deserves to get a good score, even if it runs poorly.

@dskatter Even if they released them, it would be literally impossible for either of the modern Flight Sim games to be playable offline from a physical disc. The games rely entirely on using the internet to stream data from online world maps.

@PuppetMaster The Kurohyo/Black Panther games are definitely most deserving of a Kiwami remake, since they're very different from the rest of the series gameplay-wise. They're basically Fight Night games, but with a Yakuza coat of paint.

Black Panther 1 and 2 are both very similar, so I think it would be best to bundle them together and give them fully rendered 3D cutscenes instead of manga-style slideshows like in the originals.

@Yozora146_ They don't outright state that it's releasing simultaneously on Xbox and Switch 2, but it's very heavily implied in one of the other statements they made on the official Square Enix website.

Here's a snippet from a recent Square Enix article on the news:

"Another common question about the game is whether the entire FINAL FANTASY VII remake trilogy is coming to Switch 2 and Xbox. We can confirm that yes they are - we’ll have more information about FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH and the in-development third game in the future."

https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/news/final-fantasy-vii-remake-intergrade-switch2-xbox-series-x-s

@PuppetMaster I see, my bad. I thought you were against re-releases of old games in general.

@Fighting_Game_Loser Yeah, it's really weird, I'm not sure why Nintendo didn't include it in the English one.

@masofdas Not really, in 2016-2018, the install base on Xbox One was roughly the same as the current install base on Xbox Series X/S, as well as the remaining Xbox One players.

@PuppetMaster Maybe it didn't need a remake, sure, but it at least needs to be brought to modern platforms. I don't know about you, but not everyone has been playing video games for 20+ years. There's a lot of people who are new to video games and there are some, like me, who only got really invested in the hobby during the late Xbox 360/PS3 generation. I missed out on a lot of the games from the PS1/2 era and prior, so I'm happy that we're getting these old games on modern platforms.

@Fighting_Game_Loser It was in the Japanese Nintendo Direct, but not the English one, for some reason.

@UltimateOtaku91 It doesn't matter that it was only 9%, though. It still sold more than a million copies on Xbox One alone in just two years, which is seemingly more than what it sold on PC (granted, the PC port came out a year later). Square would be crazy not to get the Final Fantasy fanbase back to that level on Xbox again.

@SeaDaVie People in Japan just prefer buying stuff on Nintendo consoles for some reason.

@SeaDaVie Most people in Japan, even those who own a PS5, will likely prefer buying FF7 Remake Part 3 on Switch 2 instead.

@djlard It's basically saying "this game is everything that game isn't, and that's what makes it so fun"

The titles are pretty easy to understand if you know the names of the games that they're referring to. If not, then they may sound really weird.

@SoulsBourne128 The pricing differences between Lost Soul Aside and other China Hero Project games is probably due to the fact that Loat Soul Aside was published by Sony, while the other games were either self-published or published by other developers.

The FMV cutscenes alone make this worth buying lol. It's basically an AVGN episode lodged inside a game, so I might as well play it.

Also, what timeline do we live in where the company that's supposedly making a God of War Metroidvania is also working on an AVGN game?

@SeaDaVie Yeah, co-op games definitely do best on PC these days. Just look at all the co-op indie titles that have come out in recent years, like Content Warning, Peak, Phasmophobia, Lethal Company, etc.

I don't know if Helldivers 2 actually sold 2x better on PC than on PS5, as Alinea Analytics suggests, but there's a very good chance that it sold best on PC.

@MrPeanutbutterz Nothing about the part where I said you would have never believed Helldivers 2 would come to Xbox a few months ago, or that Sony putting Helldivers 2 on Xbox is proof that they don't think the Xbox platform is dead?

And dude, you are arguing with such thinly veiled fanboy rhetoric that it's pretty obvious you do care. The only reason why you would do a "big shrug" if God of War or The Last of Us came to Xbox is because it would make your snarky, condescending comments on the matter look foolish.

@MrPeanutbutterz "It means that Sony recognises that a suprise breakout hit that lives or dies by the size of its active playerbase can use the influx of (checks notes) new players."

Funny, something tells you wouldn't have said this back in May. I would be willing to bet money that if I told you Helldivers 2 was coming to Xbox a few months ago, you would have laughed in my face and told me in a condescending manner that Sony would have no incentive whatsoever to bring any of their games - not even a live service one - to the Xbox platform.

Also, your logic here is a tad contradictory. If Xbox is dead, then why exactly is Sony bringing live service games to the platform? If anything, Sony's willingness to port Helldivers 2 to Xbox is a "tacit admission," in your words, that they believe the Xbox platform is viable and worth bringing games to.

It doesn't matter how poorly the Series X/S is selling, or how many games Microsoft is bringing over to PlayStation. The mere fact that they brought Helldivers 2 over in the first place shows that Sony views the Xbox platform in a more favorable light than you do.

By the way, you're still seemingly under the belief that Sony is only going to port live service games to Xbox. But again, I believe it's only a matter of time until we see a platform-defining singleplayer PlayStation game make the jump to Xbox and Nintendo consoles. If that does happen, that will pretty much throw a wrench into your entire argument, and you will probably pretend to claim you don't care about the whole ordeal, even though you evidently do.

@UltimateOtaku91 It definitely does matter. @RagnarLothbrok was comparing the launch sales of a tentpole installment in a major franchise (FF16) to the sales of a port for a multiplayer game that came out one year after its initial release (Helldivers 2).

When it comes to Helldivers 2, most people who are interested in the game have already played it within the last year or so. Helldivers 2's Xbox port is specifically targeting people who didn't play it because they don't own a PS5 or a PC.

So, of course the sales of a delayed port are going to be lower than the launch sales of a game on a more popular platform.

@SeaDaVie The game is so cheap that you wouldn't even be saving any money by playing and finishing this game on Game Pass.

@BAMozzy Clearly Microsoft wasn't expecting anyone to buy the game on Xbox, which is why they didn't even bother making a physical release of the game for Xbox players.

Somehow an obscure game like Scar-Lead Salvation gets a physical Xbox release but not Gears of War: Reloaded.

@Ultimapunch It just means the game had a million players across Xbox, PC, and PS5. This includes those who bought the game, those who played it on Game Pass, and those who got a free copy on Xbox.

@MrPeanutbutterz If Gears coming to PlayStation is a tacit admission by Microsoft that Xbox is dead, then what does Helldivers 2 coming to Xbox say about PlayStation?

I'm curious to see what the spin will be if, or should I say when, a tentpole singleplayer Sony game like The Last of Us, Horizon, or Spider-Man comes to Xbox. Something tells me I won't be seeing many people on Push Square saying "this game coming to Xbox is a tacit admission by Sony that PlayStation is dead."

@ApostateMage "I can't trust critics again after they gave DA: Veilguard 9's and 10's."

I always find comments like this funny because 8 times out of 10, the general sentiment that critics have for a game is the same sentiment that players have, as well. The video game industry is not like the movie industry, where opinions between critics and consumers vary wildly. Here, they're often the same.

People have short-term memory. They just dogpile on the latest game that's trendy to hate, and ignore the fact that the critic consensus usually aligns with player sentiment more often than not. Dragon Age: Veilguard is an exception to the rule, not the rule.

@Gr8VngnzN4esAngr Surprised this comment hasn't been removed yet.

Looking at this comment and the comment you made on the Stellar Blade article, it's pretty clear what type of person you are.

@SeaDaVie The reason they delayed it is because of Silksong, but instead of pushing it back by a few weeks, they decided to take this opportunity to add some features in, as well.

@SeaDaVie Not just because of Silksong, it's explained in the article that the devs are going to take this delay opportunity to add some minigames and features that they initially intended to add post-launch.

@TrollOfWar What would a K-Pop Demon Hunters game look like? A Hi-Fi Rush style rhythm-action game with Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA-esque singing segments?