armondo36

armondo36

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Re: Meltdowns on Social Media As Sony Markets Its Upcoming Xbox Port

armondo36

Spiderman makes sense because it's obviously a huge IP and porting it v would be easy money. Days Gone makes sense because it's a "failed" IP, so why not squeeze a few more sales out of it? Development costs are only going up, the days of people buying multiple consoles are ending (because consoles are $700 lol), and there simply is no reason to limit your potential audience to people who bought your plastic box. The only reason Sony hasn't done this already is that they wanted to see how Microsoft's efforts worked.

Re: 'They Don't Know What They're Doing': Analyst Sticks the Boot in Sony's 'Clueless' Management

armondo36

Whether you like Pachter or not.....he's not wrong. Jim Ryan was a disastrous hire, letting Shawn go was terrible, buying Bungie to make live service games (when they could have been making a new KillZone 😀) was awful. Sony used to be smarter than this. Playstation 6 will largely be about righting the ship. They're very lucky they don't have any serious competition tbh.

Re: EA Still Resisting $80 PS5 Games, Not Raising Prices 'at This Stage'

armondo36

I'm extremely curious about this one. I've been saying for years that developers believe that their games are worth $100. Obviously theyre going to adopt $80 as the new standard, so I'm curious to see how consumers react. Personally, I don't ever pay over $50 for any game, although I am going to make an exception for Ghost of Yotei. I dunno about you, but I have plenty of backlog to work through, so waiting for sales is easy lol. If consumers dont want these prices increases, we really ought to stop buying at these new prices.

Re: Official Ghost of Yotei Popcorn Bucket Triggers Tedious Takes on PS5 Exclusives

armondo36

Your take is flawed. No one is criticizing Sony for investing in storytelling. People (sometimes rightly, imo) get tired of games that are half cutscene. Days Gone has something like 6 hours worth of cutscenes. That's the complaint. Sometimes you just want to play the game, and some games (not always Sony, to be fair) spend way too much time making you watch.

That being said, these takes are completely unfair because Ghost hasn't come out yet lol

Re: Reaction: Sony's Live Service Push Has Been a Disaster of Utterly Insane Proportions

armondo36

It isn't even the fact that Sony went this direction; it's more the fact that Playstation owners were pretty universal in their opposition. "We don't want you to do that" was met with "you don't know what you want " lol.

The way forward is probably going back to single player content. But, maybe every game doesn't need to be open world. Maybe every game doesn't have to have 20 hours of cutscenes. Every game doesn't have to be a movie necessarily. There have to be ways to lower costs.

Re: Poll: Did You Buy a PS5 Pro?

armondo36

My birthday is in January, so i might treat myself. I'm not really fussed honestly. The only real reason to have one today is to be able to SAY that I have one. As long as I upgrade in time for Ghost of Yotai I'm fine.

Re: PS5, PC Shooter Concord Dead on Arrival, Is Being Taken Offline This Week as Dev 'Explores Options'

armondo36

This was just, not what people want from Sony. People have been pushing back against their new focus on live service games since it was announced. Honestly, if Concord had been announced and released outside of that, and been free-to-play, it probably would have done better. Not necessarily a hit, but more than the disaster it is now. There was a tone deafness to this whole thing, and hopefully Sony learned something here.