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@DennisReynolds In comparison to the OG the sequel didn't do all that well despite the budget being higher. Just like SM2.

It makes no business sense to invest many years into TLOU3 unless they are in a Bioware situation where they tried everything else first.

Are the expectations high tho? TLOU2 didn't sell well enough to guarantee a third game.

ND would probably only do it if Intergalactic and the next Uncharted flop.

Can you play 5v5 SS matches yet?

@AdamNovice Of course you need an xbox. Everything is an xbox and you need at least 1 thing in your life to play games.

@x3King84 What about Switch?

@Stevemalkpus Why would I not be happy for a game to succeed. Do you think me a monster?

@naruball That's subjective. IMO Return was fun.

Nice to see Call Of Duty do so well.

I hope the Sydney on 8th of November is Sweeney

@Ultimapunch Because they want to grow and SP games alone ain't doing it. Even 1 successful LS game can generate a billiion+ per year and free up resources to do other stuff. PS3 and 4 might have outsold Xbox 360 and 1, but Microsoft can straight up buy Sony.

@Frmknst For real. Standards have dropped massively over the past decade. How did we go from the Sopranos, GOT, Wire, Breaking Bad etc to calling shows like TLOU and Fallout great? Even the first 3 seasons of the Vampire Diaries are a million times better than what we get nowadays.

@PerpetualBoredom I don't think it's narrow. It's common sense. Big studios push boundaries and release products that excite as opposed to merely intrigue people.

@AdamNovice If you are a game reviewer you probably care about the health of the industry, but if you are a regular gamer with a job you probably only care about receiving good games. And most good games are AAA. Unless you are into some niche genres that only indie studios target.

@PerpetualBoredom Not really. It's just a game with a smaller budget.

@Mintie Of course that Kojima would say that his game did well. Can't trust him. We need hackers to hack Kojima productions and leak internal info to be sure.

Meh. It looks AA.

@Bamila Kojima might be spread too thin. Too many games and DS1 didn't even do all that great.

The Last Of Us Re-Mars-tered edition tease?

@3Above You don't get to make Uncharted 2 if Uncharted 1 doesn't sell.

@Hapless As far as I'm concerned if a studio is doing poorly they can't get worse. I already don't care about their games.

@DennisReynolds The layoffs are a natural part of making bad products. Don't shoot the messenger.

To be fair an Until Dawn remake should make no money in a sane world.

@Kriandis Nah. There are more money to be made with a part three. It's better than another Concord.

@Ravix I think that all good writers stopped getting work at big companies because no talented artist wants to make sanitized products.

Would be cool if they let us play test TLOU3

Looks decent.

They should make a SP mode

@Lup People said that hair rendering was the only good thing about the game lol

@Mikey856 By now you should be well aware that the creatures in charge of movies, tv shows and games are indeed just humans like you and me and they can be just as petty, biased and flawed as you and me. Quality and appealing to the most amount of people is not always a priority and when you are dealing with AAA budgets... you end up having to lay people off.

@Mikey856 The game already under performed massively and every writer along with a ton of other developers got moved or fired.

The haters aka people who expect experienced studios to release good games won this one.

@pyrrhic_victory Worse games have succeeded.

Xbox fans will claim that they finally beat the PS4

Maybe Bioware devs should take a paid week off to play Witcher 4 when it drops

@ChrisDeku What was the point you attempted to make? The thousands fired western devs should all work for Rockstar? If Rockstar did that no amount of sales will save them from being risk averse. Those jobs are gone and and many studios can't get the funding to work on new games so they won't be hiring anyone. A ton have already closed their doors.

Spider-Man 2 is a bad example to make because Insomniac didn't make enough money back to warrant making DLCs despite the budget being much higher than SM1.

EDIT: I already said in the second comment that these eastern devs are not pushing the boundries. They are making more modern versions of older western games. Which is primarily why I am not excited about a future where they are the more popular source of new games.

@ChrisDeku Didn't studios like Capcom, Fromsoft and the devs of Wukong and Eve receive bonuses recently?

The job of a gaming studio is to make money. If the budget is too high or the game doesn't appeal to gamers the opposite will happen. Either way the west is lagging behind the East. And that would have never happened if western studios didn't drop the ball hard in recent years. Now we are looking at a future where the Asian gaming industry is booming and soaking up most of the time and money of consumers while the western developers will go work and build their skills in other industries.

@DennisReynolds Who exactly is not saying that the industry is in trouble? The shareholders of successful western studios? Now that's a minority right there.

@DennisReynolds I think that you are being defensive for no reason.

Everyone has been talking about the awful state of the western gaming industry for years now. You can't point to the few successful games(that let's be honest cater to an old school audience) and pretend that everything is actually okay. The large amount of layoffs affects the industry regardless and it's especially infuriating to see big studios that should know better release games that appeal to very few gamers.

Also, I seem to recall people in this very forum point out that FF7R did well actually sales wise despite being an exclusive.

The thing is that Asia is not doing anything new or special. They are making games similar to what we had a decade ago. The west shot itself in the foot and it resulted in a lot of layoffs due to poor sales.

@Mikey856 Some games are still great at 30 fps. It's up to the skill and budget of the developers. GTA 5 played very well on PS3 from what I can remember. TLOU as well.

@zhoont They got the gig because they did such a good job those characters are now known to every gamer

Anything other than Uncharted 5/BG 4 announcements is now officially considered a disappointment

@Czar_Khastik Least snobbish rich person

If they announce another Quest or Index device without OLED, I am buying it for sure!