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Re: Ghost of Yotei's Latest Video Immerses You in 10 Minutes of Gorgeous Music and Landscapes

graymamba

@KundaliniRising333 I don’t think it’s gonna be for you then I’m afraid.

I do find this negativity targeted at Sony first party sequels a little strange this gen not gonna lie. I mean, yes the sequels to Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War (2018) and Spider-man have been somewhat iterative as you say… but sequels have always kinda been that way for the most part. Are there outliers to that? Of course (normally due to a generational leap or two… but we’re way deep into diminishing returns in terms of one generation to the next at this point) but generally if you look back at some of the great series (from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo… as well as third party) sequels will often just fine-tune what had come before.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 594

graymamba

Finished off my first run on RE: Revelations yesterday and thought it was just a real solid survival horror fair play. Another playthrough on Infernal difficulty now… and then an absolute boat-load of co-op in the Raid mode. As someone who generally prefers the more solitary gaming endeavours out there, I’m actually quite looking forward to some jolly co-op with this one.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 592

graymamba

Right at the end of my 100% playthrough of Assassins Creed: Rogue with only the cheat trophies left… well those and the Dedicated Employee trophy which is notoriously glitchy and unfortunately glitched for me too. So once I get the 4 remaining cheat trophies, it’s back to starting a new playthrough from scratch to redo 35 Abstergo Challenges.

Re: Rumour: Sony to Put More First-Party PS5 Games on Xbox

graymamba

@TrollOfWar well I wouldn’t personally say no to $15.5 million but I might if I was Sony. As I said in my original post, it’s a decision between potential earning vs potential damage to the brand. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it isn’t happening, just that I personally wouldn’t be traversing this route if I made the decisions for Sony.

Re: Rumour: Sony to Put More First-Party PS5 Games on Xbox

graymamba

@TrollOfWar it’s not just profit though, it’s the potential percentage of profit (the risk/reward dynamic). For instance, hypothetically let’s say porting Horizon: Zero Dawn to Xbox would cost x… and the subsequent sales would amount to revenue of x+£1 (or £1 profit… as I know you guys seem to have an issue differentiating between revenue and profit), it simply wouldn’t be worth it. Now obviously I don’t think that the example shown would only make £1 profit but it paints the picture that profit alone is not enough, the potential profit percentage has to be acceptable.

And the only people who know what that acceptable percentage would be is the Sony board. All I was trying to do was to show that Microsoft porting games to PlayStation is a completely different prospect to Sony porting games to Xbox. As you said PlayStation has over double the user base and there is a far higher propensity for those users to make purchases. On the other hand Xbox has under half the user base and the likelihood of that smaller user base actually making purchases is demonstrably impacted negatively by Gamepass. I didn’t think I needed to break it down that far if I’m honest… but obviously I did.