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Pretty telling results. This is a data set of the ultra enthusiast for this brand in particular. These products don’t survive on just the enthusiasts alone. Imagine what the wider audience is thinking.

They’re going to move a lot of units over the weekend haha, after that who knows. My worry is what they’ll do to make up for the system sales.

I have to imagine the slop game crackdown on storefronts is to get ahead of the incoming wave of AI-assisted games. It’s never been easier to poop out shovelware. You thought it was bad before, that was before you could vibe code your way to an even buggier finished product.

I would not be surprised if this isn’t the last increase either. Data center demands to fuel the AI beast aren’t going anywhere but up, oil prices aren’t going anywhere but up (thanks to USA and Israel), Trump already looking at alternative tariff mechanisms, hell even COVID supply chain disruptions never REALLY resolved themselves. Buckle up, is all I can say. I think the days of owning hardware are unfortunately behind us for the majority of people. It’s so sad dude.

not sure what people were expecting with this one

Very curious to see how this plays out. Competition is a good thing.

gooood luck if you need to upgrade anytime soon

I’ve had friends who were caught in the recent Ubisoft Halifax and Toronto studio layoffs. Ubisoft can go to hell as far as I’m concerned. I think I’ll fire up a few of these on MiSTer today just out of spite.

I think they should have brought the skating mechanics up to par before doing something like this, the game feels OK-ish to play but there’s some moves that are not there yet that should be or are completely janky. I think a lot of players are holding off until the core mechanics feel complete, so selling this kind of ish to compensate for your low numbers, it’s the wrong thing to focus on IMHO. Completely destroys any trust in the process.

“I’m confident in the direction we’re headed.” Well, at least that makes one of us.

They don’t want to sell people hardware anymore, this AI ***** is setting a precedence of “selling compute”, expect companies to go all in.

If it can do what Arc Raiders does but with some more meaningful and varied PvE content then it could be a real hit.

I think they should wait out these supply chain issues, otherwise the PS6 is going to be 1500$ and a price precedent like that will be a death sentence for owning your own hardware I think

The problem with the time it takes to develop a AAA title these days is you can go all in on a trendy thing or style that may have made sense when development started but becomes clowned on by the time the game comes out because tastes and trends change so much faster

Huh not familiar with Goof Troop, I’ll have to check it out. I recently played a translation of his game Sweet Home on NES and oh my gosh what an absolute banger of a game and way in line with the DNA of RE, it’s basically a top down RE, incredible stuff.

Absolum and BALL x PIT were my 2025 GOTYs

I recommend people try Vintage Story if they want a better block game.

Core Keeper is legit one of the best games released in the last while.

Core Keeper is a keeper.

The EV infrastructure in my area just isn’t there yet to even look at an EV. I would love to consider one but I’ve heard too many horror stories about them.

Microslop was slop before AI even thought about slopping. King of the Slop!

Merry Christmas all

Liked it more than I thought I would. The combat and traversal kept it interesting. I usually get bored of these games before they’re done because they’re just so bloated with filler, but managed to roll credits.

Gaming really is screaming towards that Capitalism end game

Square’s been a hot mess for a while now

What if GTA6 is bad, could you imagine?

Any competition for Sony is a good thing, I hope it sells like hot cakes

I can’t get behind AI art. I can get behind it as a coding tool, I use it everyday at work as a developer and it’s a game changer, but AI art is where I have to draw the line.

Can’t have too many Henry’s

The game already does a pretty decent job of matching solos with solos, it’s pretty great. The strength of these features really relies on a strong player base, so time will tell if these hold up long term.

I’m loving it so far, I appreciate how chill everyone is, I’m way more into playing a sneaky scavenger than doing constant PvP, and I’ve only had a few instances where people shoot on sight

In some ways it’s the best Fallout, in some ways it’s the worst Fallout. I’m glad I played it but my core takeaway is just how unfinished a lot of it felt. It needs a true remaster, not a rerelease.

Maybe they’ll sell it again in a few years with some actual improvements

Heh. I have a core childhood memory around this game. There are some questionable lines in this game. My elementary school was fancy and had a really nice computer lab with lots of games, and when I was in grade 4 someone installed all the popular FMV games from the time, including this one. In one scene, a character is hitting on a girl and says “girl, I would drink your bath water.” Ten year old me was like “what?!” Stuck with me ever since.

To play devil’s advocate for a minute, if esports is ever to make the jump to legitimate mainstream spectator sport, this will be a natural evolution (think boxing, UFC, WWE, etc)… whether the right time for that evolution is now is another question entirely.

lol I love showing up late to these threads and seeing all the deleted comments, delicious

It’s very good.

What’s good for the companies isn’t what’s good for the gamers, I’ve been wholly disappointed with this gen for a lot of the reasons these companies are taking in record amounts of dough.

Nice, I’ve been waiting on this one. Played Demon’s Tilt on PlayStation so I’ve been holding off on playing this one on Steam

The whole “users are the beta testers” thing is so pervasive in this industry now that the developers are beta testing UE5 while shipping broken games for users to beta test the game to beta test the engine.

This is good news, I absolutely love this game, it’s one of my go to’s that’s always great when I come back to it.

Kinda shady ngl

I am loving it so far, the top tier world building elevates a relatively simple game to something I just can’t put down.

@zeppray57 gee, I wonder why that is?

I totally believe the speculation about PS5’s Fairgames getting cancelled.

Howard the Duck or we riot

I hope the 1-2 punch of DD2 and MH: Wilds wakes devs up that there is indeed a line in the sand when it comes to performance and optimization. That seems to be the corner to cut to keep operating costs down in order to compete in a market that also includes billion dollar behemoths like Fortnite, etc., but you can only take it so far in my opinion.

Is the stick just analog with a restrictor gate? Why does it look like that?

A lot of these companies are quite literally going to choose death over not having their own Fortnite, welcome to late stage capitalism bb’s! Those that don’t choose death, will be forced to cut as many corners as possible to produce the kind of fundamentals that investors crave. Welcome to the future of AAA. The last thing they care about is what the user wants.

Xbox posted a buuunch of jobs on LinkedIn within the last couple days. There’s a concerted effort happening in tech right now to devalue technical roles, bolstered by inflated AI numbers and dubious benchmarks. They know they still need these people, they just don’t want them making 6 figure salaries anymore. It’s insidious, it’s all just stock market manipulation, something Microsoft is very, very good at. I’ve worked for some of these companies and you can see the grift for what it is. Pretty sad, makes me want to be a farmer and never write a line of code ever again.