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@Czar_Khastik Sega/Atlus fans are conditioned to buying games multiple times and defending it at this point. It's upsetting but Sega are consistently rewarded for this nonsense.

Sega weren't kidding when they said they were going to make Yakuza, Persona and Sonic annual franchises. Do have to question if they're going to inevitably saturate the brand.

It seems like the same 2-3 million players who buy the game are locked in though.

@Oram77 Saros is there. A whole 5 mins of Saros. Great news for me. Means its a A+ direct already.

Add a Tokon reveal or two, wolverine or that God of war game and it's a solid list

@Questionable_Duck that's fair. I personally loved The Last Guardian because it was so finicky that in the late game it really did feel like the player and Trico understood each other. Also the whole end sequence made me cry a lot.

Hideo Kojima the influencer is a very weird turn which I didn't expect 10-12 years back. The Sake, the credit cards etc. They're all very weird and don't make sense but I will say he's smart to leverage his personal celebrity status to get other supplementary sources of income since game dev is a long process.

Come on SIE a SOP or showcase will be incredible right now. Nintendo literally dropped the ball last week and had nothing of interest.

Saw someone say it could also look like Eddie Redmayne. Either way that Yoji Shinkawa art is 🔥 as usual.

OD doesn't have Shinkawa art yet right?

Looks good but I don't know why the eyes look kinda weird. It's something I've noticed in a lot of High Fidelity Unreal Engine 5 games where eyes look too shiny/reflective.

Rest of it? Looks very very interesting which means it'll be scary.

I wonder how they intend to use Cloud technology or if that's been scrapped. Also what Kojima meant by calling it a 'visual experience'. Something like the Matrix UE5 demo?

@dancingstar93 Love Gematsu for their updates on games and announcements. Hate everything else. Toxic and nasty.

@Enuo I agree. Preorders are still incredibly strong from what I can see on the Playstation store. Any score above 86 and the game will be a hit (with embargo lifting so early SIE are very confident)

Great. Want to see SAROS with release date/window, God of Vania with release date/window, Tokon character reveals and Wolverine with release year 2026! If they can add some Intergalactic, that'll be ace.

2026 is looking great for me!

Yay for Singleplayer!

Really excited by all the first party single player games in the pipeline. SAROS, Intergalactic, Yotei, wolverine. All sound incredible.

I think ND without Hennig has never been better. The gameplay is better than ever, the narratives bolder and more interesting. I am curious about that Marvel game though. Seems like it's in some development problem.

@UltimateOtaku91 their big AAA games flopped because Square doesn't know how to budget their games. Their small innovative titles flopped because Square doesn't know how to create a good name or marketing campaign.

If those are your big guns.. No offense you're screwed.

@SeaDaVie Also forgetting the pandemic existed and the film industry was saying the theater experience was gonna go extinct. Sony and Paramount were the few companies that actually still supported theatrical with Uncharted, Spider-Man and top gun maverick.

I was talking to my brother about this and animation is probably the most hit or miss industry in movies and TV. Sony would've probably needed theatrical to make 250 million to be successful. A new IP making that much post pandemic? It would've been difficult.

Most of K-pops success is because it came on Netflix first where it was free for subscribers and had no real marketing.

Calling it now. Game is gonna run like ass.

I would say less Yakuza, less persona, less JRPGs in general. Sega are practically Japans Ubisoft at this point with yearly releases

@DennisReynolds I remember the incredibly positive reception the betas for Monster Hunter got. A live service can only be judged two-three months after release.

Halo Infinite suffered despite incredible launch reception (10 million players or something).

Is it a free beta. Than we can ignore it. Gamers love free *****. Let's look at the numbers 3-4 months after launch before we call a live service a success

Let's see if EA fires people before we call it a success. Remember DAV having the highest concurrents at launch for a Dragon Age game.

Seriously games media is in the 🚽

I feel having his own studio means he's much faster in making his plans with Konami it wasn't his IP so he could faff around and delay games but with his own IP he has to be focused which is a good thing.

Thank god Sony focuses on people who aren't on forums for their main games. This looks great and I'm all for a sequel that expands the combat and exploration rather than re-inventing the wheel (remember it's only been in deevelopment for 3-4 years considering how much they supported Tsushima)

@Legacy2K no need it means you're already a part of the beta. Tokon Twitter just updated

@Bagwag82 @themightyant the problem is Jez Corden is the one who posited both reasons
1. MICROSOFT has given the XBOX division unrealistic goals (which after 80 billion in growth investment seems fair on MS)
2. Is to divert to AI Capex and growth

Both can be true and both still paint a picture of Xbox not growing the way a company that has invested 80+ billion not including employee overheads should grow.

@Foxx_64740 revenue ain't profit. They wouldnt have fired around 2000 gaming employees if they were profitable or MS considered 5 bill in revenue good.

@get2sammyb Iirc wasn't there a linkedin from some Sony Exec that said TLOU2 sales jumped up by 2 millions units because of season 2? It's clear that this stuff makes a huge difference. For DMC, I remember Capcom putting the games on massive sales for Netflix show period.

It's smart business and DMC on Netflix was a decent show despite Adi Shankar being an idiot and the show being kinda forgettable. I wonder If Konami saw similar boosts with Castlevania?

I know LoL didn't get that big a boost from Arcane. Reputation too toxic

I still question where the money is for Microsoft in this.

@Nepp67 i actually hate the placement more than the line itself. in the middle of some of the biggest emotional and lore bits they throw that rubbish

It's low because they've been extremely aggressive with discounts and is on PC, Playstation and Xbox. I mean 25% off one month later isn't a sign of confidence especially for a game that had Clair Obscur reviews. Personally thought it was more Atlus slop, same rubbish story with cowardly politics that doesn't fully commit while going just far enough to tease a more interesting plot (most Japanese games fall into this except Taro and Kojima), repetitive combat, excellent music, ass performance while looking dull and muted.

@somnambulance it also makes the Sony tent pole numbers genuinely insane.

@Questionable_Duck EA wanted 3 mil for Veilguard and that was multiplatform so for a Japanese dev (much lower salaries), a less troublesome development and on a single console with 40 mil owners at the time 3.5 million looks incredible and makes me question how bad their overheads are.

More scary for me is RGG and Atlus clearly have stalled growth. They should be doing a lot better based off the competition and that too with a mega ultra multiplatform strategy that includes last gen as well. As I said in a comment before they're risking UBI-fication with the annual releases.

Also, Astro Bot doing 1.5 mil in 9 weeks is massive by comparison.

Edit: maybe the Gamepass effect for P3R and Yakuza games?

Sega generally has been mid for a while for me. I loved the Judgement titles but the new Yakuza games have lost me big time and it seems their unit sales have also stalled based on the leak, I mean Astrobot on PS5 alone outsold IW at this point and IW is the highest rated Yakuza game ever. Also, they've made a mess of Y0 on Switch by retconning deaths.

Persona has literally become the same game and is underwhelming as they all are now being shaped of P5.

Sonic is pretty cool right now with all the new stuff they're trying though for 70usd I don't think the new racer will do too good.

Metaphor recently crossed 2mil units in sales but it's already getting 40-50% discounts almost always which makes me feel it's under-performed by a bit (especially when clair obscur has similar reviews and basically cribbed their whole style has outperformed them in a month). The story was rubbish though and the game ran like ass despite looking like ass.

All this is to say: they are rushing games and need to focus on quality much more. They've been lucky so far that they haven't had the fanbase go Ubisoft repetition on their games.

@Dimey Generally trying to remove myself from game sites and game reddits slowly because I feel the atmosphere of games discussion is poor and all these rumors and leaks and outrage is just a real downer.

Playing games you like/love on the other hand is still a blast! Cannot wait for Death Stranding 2 end of the month and Donkey Kong Bananza next month!

@kcarnes9051 yup it pushes and widens the gap between Ellie and the player. You slowly start to disagree and later become a involuntary participant as the game keeps widening the gap. Reminding you that you the player are a seperate entity from the character you control who's motivations are different.

@Ultimapunch pushsquare.com faking the results /s

The comments section here are the biggest negative Nancy's on the site and don't represent the majority 70% of the time on polls.

@Titntin shareholders don't care much either they're upset but they're still pleased with profit, revenue and hardware growth.

@themightyant again for most people a good game is a good game and they'll buy and play it otherwise they have their favorite live service, they'll play that.

The thing is most people own only one console and a Switch as a secondary. So most people arent really looking at what does Playstation have that Xbox doesn't as much as 'where are most of my friends playing' or 'which platform has my library'

Heck the people on this site and most enthusiast sites will keep crying but even the Deluxe editions of Borderlands 4 are doing well on Playstation pre-orders. Look at all the crying about the Switch 2 and it's the most successful console launch ever.

@Deadlyblack Good after how badly they handled Delsin being an Indigenous American it's good they took the criticism in the right way.

@PuppetMaster From what I understand these seem to be relatively low effort ports/remasters and Freedom Wars was already a mixed reception game, I don't know what they thought would happen re-releasing it so close to the new Monster Hunter.

@Balaam_ It's why I like it when games aren't leaked now there is increased impatience to show the game. Look at how surprising Tokon's reveal was.

@RawnDawn I get it. For me they're like Soulslikes and turnbased JRPGs, I'll only play the extremely well regarded ones and that too I only limit myself to one a year because I'm usually bored of them by the end.

Also of note, With Carson being on good terms SSM and SIE, I wonder if they got him onboard but couldn't work due to the VA Strikes.

@HonestHick That's fair I like playing it at home too and it does feel a lot more premium than the Switch 1. Just took it to the office one day to sneak in some Mario Odyssey at lunch and was shocked by how heavy my bag became. I'm waiting for Donkey Kong Bananza and MP4 though. Feel like Bananza will surprise people despite looking a bit iffy in screenshots and trailers so far.

@HonestHick Do you take your Switch 2 outdoors (work commute etc) because I find it really heavy and bulky for outdoor activities. I do like the device but I don't know if I can call it portable. Maybe home portable. It's obviously nowhere near as bad as the PC handhelds though. Monstrosities.

99% of Steams spenders probably weren't affected. The markets affected were miniscule

@Oram77 as a 40 year old franchise that isn't as much as you'd think it is. Especially with the number of games released. I do wonder how they improve sales though and reduce budgets

FFXVI and Rebirth were not good games. Xvi had promise but a bad map, simplistic combat and terrible story killed it. 3 million was far more than it deserved on PS5.

@Oram77 controversial opinion but FF isn't massive anymore . The MTG cards selling out is more about MTG being extremely popular among the old audience.

FF has long failed to connect to younger audiences unlike God of War which found new audiences with the PS4 games or Zelda with BOTW.

@Rich33 I can't think which single player exclusive game has been poorly received this gen? Almost every year they have a serious contender for GOTY.

I do agree with the PC port rush. They should hold off on that and stick to what they did early on with the 3 or 4 year delay.

@betasector Even Game of Thrones delayed season finales in the past to avoid memorial day. It is a major weekend holiday in the US. With streaming though it isn't a big loss anymore as people can watch it later. The truth is we'll only know how the show has done when the 90 day figures are out.

Memorial Day is massive for movies (look at Lilo and Stitch) but awful for tv. Either way I think structurally the adaptation had issues. A 7/10 adaptation of a 10/10 all timer video game