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Re: Reaction: Sony Finally Understands the Assignment with One of the Best State of Plays of the PS5 Era

arsmolinarc

The lack of first party titles does deserve to be pointed out and criticized. It's the result of the failed push towards live service, if at least half of the games they've cancelled without announcements were single player they coul've had at least a couple of strong first party ip.

Instead, we got an unreleased game (Concord), a canned live service God of War, a canned Bend studios live service game, the canned Last of Us multiplayer, and we don't even know what the status is for Fairgames or Marathon, both of which can be very possibly cancelled too.

It was a great showcase but it was great inspite of the lack of first party presence. It would've been abysmal without the Marvel tokodon announcement.

Re: Poll: How Would You Rate State of Play for June 2025?

arsmolinarc

@PuppetMaster And can you blame them? Sony has announced at least as many first party cancellations in the last two years as they have released and/or announced. The live service push has been a monumental disaster.

That is BAD management, which is why Hulst got demoted.

Re: Poll: How Would You Rate State of Play for June 2025?

arsmolinarc

Wasn't bad tbh. I was pleasantly surprised by quite a few of the announcements but the lack of first party titles is noticeable. Just goes on to show how thin the pipeline is after the cancellations that resulted (still) from the live service disaster.

Edit. Hulst and Ryan are probably Microsoft moles because how else can you explain their moronic "all eggs in one basket" approach to live service.

Re: Talking Point: Does Sony Really Need Some Kind of Summer Showcase?

arsmolinarc

AAA is a gamble. AAAA is a scam.

Imo "AA" (and/or indie triple iii) is the sweetspot for a game with great production values without the almost deadly risk of AAA and AAAA budgets.

This is what the industry needs to go back and forget about the soulless corporate-funded projects that take YEARS to make and are killing studios left and right with their insane budgets. It's unsustainable as it is right now.

Re: Naughty Dog's Intergalactic Unlikely to Release on PS5 Until 2027

arsmolinarc

So naught dog has released NO new games for PS5 and the one they are working on is at least 2 years away.

The only reason the live service push didn't kill Playstation is because xbox is in even worse shape.

How is Helmer Hulst still employed at Playstation? Wasn't he the one pushing this ***** hard?
Man, this dude has made hate Horizon and Guerrilla Games XD

Re: Ex-Xbox Boss Says Console War Has Lost Its 'Feistiness' as Microsoft Goes Multiformat

arsmolinarc

@nomither6 Nintendo doing its own thing since the Wii.

They cracked the key to modern game development gens ago: DON'T CHASE GRAPHICS, AAA and AAAA IS UNSUSTAINABLE.

And tbh we are at a moment in time when GFX are really good enough and devs should be focusing more on gameplay systems and mechanics, AI, physics, I feel like these took a back seat since the late PS3-PS4 years.

The things you could we with AI know. Somebody give Warren Spector the budget for this one block RPG now!