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Re: Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 Snatches April Release Date on PS5, Priced at $60

Shaw_Brothers

Wow ok I wasn’t expecting that kind of level of full price. £100 for the deluxe? Kinda makes me want to subscribe to gamepass to cover off the cost… oh wait… that’s the idea right? What’s annoying is my ultimate license I have on Xbox (which I have now sold) won’t count for this at all. Shame, I’ll wait for the price to reduce a bit for paying. I do wonder if the port works well and if it’s better than the Xbox series x version…

Re: Yakuza Creator's Next Game Will Be Sent to Die As NetEase Implodes

Shaw_Brothers

@get2sammyb nothing that can be done. In effect, it’s buying out the competition to eliminate the competition. Basically we are at that phase of gaming economics which will eventually lead to three big players surviving and the occasional new studio popping up. Right now it’s the buyout and destroy phase - which happened with IBM, Microsoft and others in the past. You have this massive bubble that then bursts, much like the internet boom of 2000s. AI is the next bubble to burst so wait to see for buyouts and layoffs there once people actually realise actual uses for AI. Sadly, it’s just how economics works and it ruins creativity. Imagine if art went through the same, with a mega conglomerate buying all new art and companies selling art, only for that type of art to not fall into demand resulting in layoffs and bankrupting a ton of local artists. It’s doesn’t quite work that way in art because there is only 1 copy of a painting and it’s heavily subjective but something with mass appeal and massive supply can only really generate cash, if managed right. It’s fear of competition and therefore greed that has brought us into this current mess, and the casualty will always be the artists that create these wonderful games.

Re: GTA 5 Sells an Utterly Ludicrous 210 Million Copies

Shaw_Brothers

It’s in there court to screw things up with gta6. But these numbers are extreme. If anything, this is why the gaming industry is currently boom and bust, they are all driving for these numbers. Which are unobtainable for most publishers. The question is, no matter the hype, sales, or whatever - gta6 has the most pressure any game has ever had. If screw it up, then take two goes

Re: Would You Pay $100 for GTA 6?

Shaw_Brothers

So thinking economics here. Raise a price and you get three types of people - 1) who will never pay that much for any game. 2) people who will either get impatient and buy after a period of times or can wait for a reduced price. 3) people who will just accept the price.

Rockstar have great demand and supply doesn’t really come into it (as its digital), other than how much money people have (as a supply). So it’s all dependent on the demand - if rockstar know they are going to get 10m day 1 sales at x amount = n profit, and 20m sales at y amount = n+1 then they will choose the one that gives the best number depending on priorities, which I should imagine will be profit but they might want “the fastest selling game of all time” to encourage further longer term. I reckon a significant amount of money has been spent already by rockstar on this type of market research to find out how they can get the most sales.

In terms of the inflation argument etc that’s all BS as that doesn’t matter when you have a game that’s going to sell as many as this. Basically rockstar will put this game out for as much as they can to maximise profit, so if they will put to the maximum they foresee that will maximise numbers, sales numbers and profits. 100 is also a psychological price and a big milestone to break. Not sure other developers will be successful in pushing this price but whatever rockstar do is what others such as EA will try for sure.

One other point - GTA6 could be the last of the decade or longer development games - it’s too big and takes too long to develop rewards and gamers are not into this so much anymore. But who knows their might be more, but really a game that takes as long as someone to go through puberty is too long!

Re: Your First Look at Virtua Fighter PS5 Will Drop Jaws

Shaw_Brothers

Oh god I hope it plays like it looks here. I’ve always wanted a proper martial arts game where you can counter a counter of a counter etc and then it’s a battle of wits to who gets the actual punch. Main issue with that is speed + button mashing and how to make things play well. Dead or alive 5 countering well, but most games just are as you counter you then can hit on the next move, rarely if at all games have layered countering.

Both otherwise, the graphics here look great. Also lets hope it doesn’t do a tekken 8 adding loads of paid for stuff after release!

Re: We Did a Double Take at NBA 2K25's New PS5 DLC

Shaw_Brothers

Destruction all stars without the cars anyone? We all know how well that went...
Seriously it's actually quite difficult to judge what to buy these days as things are becoming so over saturated with free then paid for, paid for then pay some more, increased charges for base game - anyone would think it's a multi billion pound industry trying to work out the way to make the next billion... Oh wait....

Simple thing - let's not buy into this stuff. Let it all fail and then hopefully we will be left with the companies that choose to provide whole games on release and not these cheap sloppy add-ons that only cheapen the original mega purchase of £80

Re: Round Up: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero PS5 Reviews Go Super Saiyan

Shaw_Brothers

Let's hope they don't pull a Tekken 8 and add battle passes, paid for extra stages NOT IN season passes, and other scummy not communicated money making techniques.

Weirdly this game seems to be one of the most complete fighters for a decade. Surely this isn't the direction Bamco are actually going? Thought they were going the scummy route!

Re: PS6 Is Already Deep in Development, Backwards Compatibility of High Importance

Shaw_Brothers

@Cloud39472 think people have speculated the ps6 will be the last to support disks, and they are starting to make it more difficult for disks with selling them as a separate accessory and being out of stock drives people to software only. I suspect this is one tactic they will start using - very limited disk production numbers.

Anyway, why are we talking the ps6 now? I just want the switch 2DS!

In all seriousness, hardware developers go into conversations about this almost immediately after the manufacturing of the next model has got over so many and confirmed the design works. Be it a hardware uplift (like the fans or cooling for the ps5) or the ps5 pro. I would not think they stop for any period chasing updating components, cheaper prices or some other new competitive advantage in the hardware market.

For example, I should imagine the switch 2 hardware is done, the manufacturer has started so the next port will be to start looking at the switch 3 or other intermediate hardware/accessories. Everything has to be years in advance so the orders can be made to the manufacturers, which when large scale like this you book months of production time at once and so that has to be coordinated years in advance. Sega used to have the next one starting the day after the current one starts production, sometimes even two consoles in R&D at the same time such as the Saturn. Things are thankfully a bit more linear now, but still the same concept - everything is done years in advance and most likely the day after the current next console design is complete.

Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Astro Bot?

Shaw_Brothers

Every level has something brilliant and fun about it. Tbh I think it's even better than mario wonder, there is more to it. Some levels even remind me of when I played mario 64 the first time as they have so much originality it makes me laugh out loud.

Granted platformers are tried and tested, and this game borrows a lot from other games, but there is enough originality that makes it one of the best platformers for the last 20 years. It plays amazingly well too and is very well programmed to help you out. Not too frustrating, except the harder levels but as they should be!

Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Pro Way Too Expensive?

Shaw_Brothers

The problem is the lack of games that are currently taking advantage. If all games showed upgrades, for free, then it helps justify the £700 cost. But as it's under 10 games "and many more" - I'll believe it when I see it/when enough games utilise it and even then I won't be buying until that price comes down and after I've bought the switch 2. So late next year at the earliest. By which time they might have cancelled it anyway!

Re: PS5 Pro Showcase Coming Today, Hosted by Mark Cerny

Shaw_Brothers

Finally, ray tracing as promised the first time round with the ps5!

Tbh I won't be buying this unless there is something really special for it or my ps5 blows up. Feel like I only got my ps5 yesterday and I'm actually reserving money for the switch 2, which I hope they release a lot of decent games for. Let's see how we go!

Re: Poll: Are You Playing Astro Bot?

Shaw_Brothers

@roe I think you along with everyone else has missed that the second question is a double negative - it's basically saying "are you surprised it's brilliant?" And everyone is answering "yes" which means you are surprised it's brilliant, which makes it's bad. "no" I'm not surprised it's brilliant is the right answer

Re: Reaction: PlayStation Needs to Take a Long, Hard Look at Itself

Shaw_Brothers

Jeeze that's some harsh words from PushSqaure! You guys really didn't like this one did you?

I hope Sony "unback" live service games unless they are free. Counterstrike worked, team fortress worked and many others did because they started free, gathered the feedback, listened to people and then charged for.extras. Starting paid only and premium killed it.

Re: LEGO Harry Potter Collection Will Be Re-Released for a Third Time on PS5

Shaw_Brothers

Wow why does this game feel like GTA5 now? Tbh the way Lego games go I can wait a year or so for it to be on ps plus. Depends how much of a discount I would get. Tbh I would happily pay for an upgraded Lego city undercover - it has eye wateringly long load times that it puts me off playing it so much. Ps5 load times would suit that game so very much.

Re: Stunning Crossover Compilation Marvel vs Capcom Makes Its PS4 Digital Debut Next Month

Shaw_Brothers

No physical switch version in the UK?

Just looking at the official website: https://www.capcom-games.com/marvel-vs-capcom-fc/en-us/product/#physical

For en us territory, there is a physical switch version and a ps4 version. However selecting en UK only shows the PS4 version. I've taken the risk and bought from Amazon US (even though it's out of stock).

Does this really mean there is not going to be a physical switch release in UK or even Europe? I bloody hope not, but at least I hope I've got my physical copy!